Is there a way to stop people from posting bogus answers?

Question

I am tired of getting stupid answers from people who are just trying to pad their points.

Answer 1

I know exactly what you mean and it sucks. I don't really know the point of it because the only thing that you get by advancing to the next level is unlimited questions right? People like that just have way way too much time on their hands and they feel like their personal worth can be measured up by how many points they have on Yahoo Answers! I am on because sometimes I really need to know the answer to something or I really know the answer to someone else's question and I want to help. It's entertaining, enlightening and a way to waste "some" time not "all" your time. I posted a serious relationship question the other day because I was really looking for some unbiased advice and I got only got five responses and they were all complete bs. I almost wanted to kill one respondent because they said that my boyfriended must have left me because I got fat. Does that person even know if I'm fat or not? (I'm not but what if I were? Wouldn't I then feel tens times worse then I did when I posted the question with the purpose of feeling better?) You can always try to report abuse though I don't really know how that works but I know that Yahoo Answers doesn't want people online just to accumulate points. The point system is an incentive to get involved, not a popularity contest. And I have also found that in the time it takes to answer one question honestly for two points and then having it chosen for best answer for ten points is less then the time it takes to answer six question with one work responses that didn't really add to my experience. And experience is priceless right?

Answer 2

There's very little one can do - except probably go over to the poster's questions and spam your own answers or better still explain your irritation.

Yahoo can do much though by introducing a 'blacklist' or 'block person' feature thereby introducing a penalty for ticking people off in pursuit of points. All social networking sites have that deterrent.

Answer 3

no, there are too many people answering to expect the answer staff to monitor the answers to delete the real stupid ones or the ones that answer your question with I don't know but thanks for the points. There is a place where you report abuse and choose the topic gaming for points. Mostly I just ignore them.

Answer 4

You can report answers that violate the community guidelines or terms of service. If a user repeatedly posts things that get reported with good reason, the user's account can get suspended or canceled.

Familiarize yourself with what is worth reporting. Then report any answers that violate the TOS or CG.

If the answers don't qualify for being reported, then you just have to live with it.

Answer 5

hit the report flag and report it some children shouldn't have computers get there sites on the left side and watch for questions from them and bad mouth them or thumbs down

Answer 6

well now when you report people they have a drop down menu of the specific type of violation. the blog said they were thinking of ways to stop the "thanks for the two points" answers

Answer 7

Stop asking stupid questions maybe, oh by the way thx for the two pts

Answer 8

Dont ask stupid questions ,and the stupid answers will cease.

Answer 9

yes. have a clam bake and ask all the bogus answerers over to your house. then feed them tainted clams.

Answer 10

report them...what else is there to do?

Or just ignore stupidity. My philosophy is if stupidity is ignored, it will eventually go away.