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How come my answers page is full of people asking questions in Chinese?
Did my computer get hacked or something? It's only on this page, and it seems to be the same person. Or is someone just asking the same question over and over again in his/her own language on the wrong page?
Another weird thing is when I google my self to find my linkedin page, parts of it is in Chinese. But otherwise, this is the only page that seems to be mostly in Chinese.
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- Anonymous3 years agoFavorite Answer
The posts you refer to come from spam bots, but one or more humans are programming them. They are being paid by the company they are posting for, to enhance search engine optimization for that company (or so it appeared when the posts began a month or so ago). We don't know when or if Yahoo will take action, although whomever is running YA’s Facebook page commented on 7-16-18 that it was being worked on (that comment was in reply to another user’s answer to a question about favorite flavor of ice cream, if you want to verify it). All we can do is report them, ignore them, or leave YA. The posts are ALL OVER the site. Hopefully they will be dealt with soon. MANY questions have been asked about this already (it amazes me so few people think to check in the Answers category to see if a problem with the site has already been addressed). The site's been heavily flooded with them since the weekend of 7/7/18.
- CeiLv 53 years ago
Yahoo is being bombarded by this - it's some sort of attack.
It's been going on for some time now.
Don't know how long it'll take for yahoo to sort their **** out
