I mean, unless their comments were truly horrifically offensive - like libelous and illegal, don't you think that "reporting" people to Yahoo as a rule, is tragically lame and pathetically wimpy?
2006-08-20 00:14:29 · 44 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
Yes definitely.
OK if someone wants to report someone who's being perverted like to do with kids or something, fine. But I really think it's pathetic to report people just for the sake of it.
Example: Some one reported me for say Happy Birthday to some one when they had posted a notice that it was their birthday that day. Sad sad people.
LoL XxX
2006-08-20 11:38:13 · answer #1 · answered by tricia1971 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
now you've got me started. have you put a statement that is not a Christian one in the religion & spirituality section? If you have youll find that fundamentalists report it just because they dont like it! Contrary to what most people here say it is obvious that Yahoo do not moniter this place, but relly on people being honest when they report. now if you upset the extremist Christians they will report you enouth times under different ID's to get you banned, just because you might have a different view to Christianity. Yahoo needs to sort this out and peanalise melishious reporting. I'd only report advertizing and virus spreading personaly.
2006-08-20 08:13:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-02 07:50:46 · answer #3 · answered by mathisen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. There are clear guidelines on what is allowed and what isn't. The reporting mechanism allows yahoo to quickly identify posts which are not within the guidelines and remove them. If it didn't have such a mechanism, they would have to employ lots more moderators, as they have a responsibility for the contents of their server. The beauty of answers is that responses are not moderated before they're shown, allowing fast exchange of questions and answers.
I report posts which obviously break the guidelines - I don't do it for fun or because I disagree with someone. This is helping to keep the site useful and usable.
2006-08-20 00:38:34 · answer #4 · answered by Graham I 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If someone is been verbally abusive why answer the question in the first place. I can swear at the best of times but to write abusive and offensive language is bang out of order and I'm sorry but these people deserve reporting it's our priviledge to do so if we want Yahoo have given us this option.
2006-08-20 04:18:00 · answer #5 · answered by jlb 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, no I don't.
While I don't consider those who abuse the system to be on the same level of true criminals, I do find their antics to range from the simply annoying (do I look cute, here's my email address so that we can chat, why won't the cat give me my pizza) to the downright offensive (the racist comments, the homophobic comments, the groups of drama queens that opt to choose one persons on answers and harass them through the questions).
Those who are abusing the system are detracting from the experience of those who are actually using the system. I consider my time precious (don't judge my use or misuse of my time, even the time taken to answer this question is considered precious to me) and I don't believe that others should be given the ability to take that time away from me without my permission. It takes extra time to read the silly questions if they sound legitimate and to scroll through the ones that make no sense or are created to harass.
This doesn't even count the annoyance to those who are asking questions when silly nonsensical answers are given.
Honestly, the internet is a big place, if those who want to be fools want to do so, they can go start a blog, head to a chat room, or act foolishly in countless non invasive ways.
Love as always,
Sebastian
2006-08-20 00:25:08 · answer #6 · answered by octo_boi 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
No I don't think so!!
I have read answers that are deliberately trying to stir up ethnic or religious hatred and violence, some are extremely vicious and cruel and completely unecessary, and some very libelous and foul accusations made toward the questioner.
Not to mention language that would make you hair curl!!
This site if supposed to be for the enjoyment of us all, why should troublemakers be allowed to get away with what they do?
2006-08-20 00:26:01 · answer #7 · answered by maggie rose 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
keep it for the real nasty stuff is my view, before now I have just answered with a word of warning, feel better in myself for doing that rather than reporting for abuse just in case it becomes a rather diluted site. I laugh out loud at some of the close to edge stuff, bearing in mind there is a lower age limit for members to the site
2006-08-20 05:30:33 · answer #8 · answered by northcarrlight 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't agree. There has to some kind of standard. I've only reported questions which were deliberately racist and attempting to stir up other racist comments. If we reported all the stupid, irreverent, poorly constructed English language questions, there would be no Yahoo Answers at all.
2006-08-20 06:23:57 · answer #9 · answered by lpaganus 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Most people give funny answers because they have a sense of humour. I've put some silly questions up to provoke that because some of them make me laugh.
It's a shame that some people report because they don't get the joke, or they have a lack of sense of humour.
The only exception is an extremely malicious answer in a proper question. I would consider reporting that.
2006-08-20 00:22:12 · answer #10 · answered by JeffE 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋