reporting and violation solution?

Question

Do you think that each time you reported someone you received a negative to your point total would disuade from frivolous reporting? and not letting your total score go below zero?

if you initially lose points for reporting, then if the report is found valid (question is removed etc.) then you get your points back. if found invalid then the point loss becomes permanent. the purpose is to cut down on the frivolous volume so that the true violations can be reviewed faster.

Answer 1

I think that if you report a violation it should have to be reviewed by an actual human and if found to be in excessive violation of the rules then that is fine. If it is found to not be an excessive violation, then the person reporting it should lose 10 points. Is that how many points it cost to ask a question? If so, that is how many a person should lose for false reporting, because they would have caused the person that post that question to lose that many, when the question was removed. When people post a question and in the subject where you are supposed to ask a question, they have a statement but have the actual question in the details, they shouldn't be removed. I wouldn't consider that an excessive violation. Using racial slurs and stuff like that, would be considered an excessive violation in my mind.

Answer 2

I think that losing a point for every violation report you make would make a lot of people stop reporting, but that also means that content that should rightfully be removed wouldn't, or not as fast.

This is not a solution to the problem, this just creates a different one.

Answer 3

No. YA! Doesn't have any moderators and it's up to the viewers to report abuse. If the report abuse system is being misused then it is up to Yahoo to find another solution. To "punish" people for reporting abuse is not the way to go since many reports are valid.