I'm new here, whats unfair about the violation and reporting system?

Question

can you all enlighten me so I can answer the next person who posts about it. thanks much x

Answer 1

Read the Community Guidelines and you will see. Get informed the right way.

Good luck.

Answer 2

If you click on the red flag you can report someone and that instantly means they get a violation.

If you recieve a violation notice, you will notice that you can reply if you feel you were not in violation.

If you do this, you get a reply stating that they cannot look into individual violations - so what was the point in discussing it?

This means the puritanical, religious fruitcake imbeciles who proliferate here can take exception to you any time you make a little joke and cause you to be "violated".

People feel it's unfair because there seems to be no human arbitration of the reporting/violation system. Basically, you can report somebody and give the reason - "because he's a ****" and that person will get a violation notice - I know - I've tried it on a friend.

You can either accept that this is the case and take your chances like I do - when you get enough violations Yahoo close your account down so you just open another one and start again - or you can bleat about it, or you can bugger off elsewhere and save yourself the heartache.

That's about the size of it.

Answer 3

Anybody that doesn't like you or your question or answers can report you or flag you:it is highly unfair:because it is a machine that responds to it:hand you a violationnotice:there has been no check by real people to see if it was a deserved one or not.You can protest to it :if you get an answer it is the same message signed by another name:saying you violated the Yahoo tos:my ***.
It is an unfortunate game some like to play:trolls.
Do not reply them,do not ask questions about them:they love the attention.
Sky
Hope you understand it a bit better now:random acts by unknown idiots.

Answer 4

do you see the blue 'report abuse' tab below my last line of type? anyone, for any reason (like 'i'm mean', i don't like you', ' i just feel like it', 'oops, it was an accident') can report you for by clicking that. what the protest is about is that people are getting violations (which happens when people hit that 'report abuse' thing) for no reason at all... it's all automated.
do as they say: read the guidelines, try to behave, but don't be surprised if some random fool (just like the 1st person to answer your question) hates on you for absolutely no good reason. that's just the way it is until (if ever) Y!A fixes the system.

Answer 5

I can file an abuse report against this very question (I'll say adult content. That's dopey enough).

The system is automatic, so no member of Y!A staff checks it for validity.

You get clobbered with ther violation notice and have to take on the highly snotty appeal system (where your request for point restoration will be denied in a very condescending letter) and I am free to skip merrily throughout the site and laid more unfair eggs on folks

Answer 6

People can report people for anything. I could say something really nice and someone could report me for it...then I lose a point. People get reported for difference in opinion.

Answer 7

anyone can report a post for a 'violation'
yahoo answers then send a warning to the person whose post was reported.... they deduct points, and - if you get several you could have your posting privilidges stopped.

even if the post was perfectly innovent and the person who reported it was just being malicious........no one from YA actually bothers to check the reported post, its all automated

Answer 8

well pretty much it's fair but, if someone reports u juss 4 the sake of doin it then there's nothin u can do about it even if it was a perfectly appropriate question or answer.

Answer 9

its unfair if a genuine question is asked however its there to protect the yahoo community from idiotd who just wanna get kicks from being idiots and asking stupid questions

Answer 10

well personally i think it kinda sucks cuz theres some pple out there that gets offended by almost anything... or for some reason or another they'll delete it...