jessica R needs to go away?

Question

thats the one im talking about the one who advertises spam her biker club. she comes up on all the answers and wants you to click on her site for your answer. shes on friday 13th, and heaps of others

we should all report her and ignore her answers

Answer 1

For a yes answer, an effective strategy is needed.

With 19 posts in 2 minutes or less for sign up of Mon. 09 April, Jessica R (JR) may well be a 'bot--a spam 'bot--rather than a person. (An accurate history or log would be needed to declare. A high-speed connection, macros, and OCD could allow manual spamming.)

JR or the likes are trolls. Do a search on "forum troll*". Rather than getting upset in any way, you all can simply click abuse reports and go on your own merry ways.

Have you all contacted answers-abuse at your country ? At each post of JR you find, clicking on the flag icon ("Report abuse" button), selecting "Spam" from the drop-down menu, and pasting links info (profile and lure) can be helpful. Y! sent me a reply, so the spam reporting is acknowledged, at least.

Clicking "thumbs down" is a display convenience only, hiding the answer where net total thumbs is greater than a couple thumbs down. This does not change anything else.

You can post a comment on the Y!A blog, "Gremlins, Bugs and Trolls":
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-d8pH0dcoRKeB12yOcnUQp.9VCFos?p=14485
The Y!A blogs are tracked by Yahoo employees, so this can help pressure Y to find working solutions.

You can also e-mail the AOL Hometown Team to inform them of the "mature" (more like rude) content on a JR link page hosted by AOL, which is a violation of their guidelines. The AOL Team e-address is , subject containing "abuse" or "violation", and
containing a link to the JR page on AOL Hometown,
http://hometown.aol.com/coolbiker0190/index.htm?f=fs
or whatever the current JR page is, sent to the sys. admin for the host or domain name of the JR link.

Caution: do NOT click on a JR link, that will advance the counter of page visits.
Warning: do NOT click a JR link unless you have excellent firewall protection from attack or invasion.


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With a new JR sign ups most every week, even the sign up might be a 'bot--or someone with 'way too much idle time and 'way too little life. Or a successful spam n' porn biz. Or, politely, considerable mental health issues.
Interesting coding questions are implied. Or very uninteresting personality questions.

Other users report this abuse, though all together apparently to little avail. 198 resolved questions about Jessica R are in the Y!A db, 226 questions about Jessica R, and >7600 about Jessica, which include the preceding user name of simply "Jessica".
In retaining open access to forums, Y!A users may have to tolerate and actively report spam. If spam is effectively quickly deleted or preventively blocked, the economic incentive may dry up.

With the possibility of a 'bot, Jessica R would be an "annoying Trojan" threat to Y!A users or indeed to forums users, as well as just being encumbering spam. Therefore forums hosts should be able to promote development of preventive templates if not 'bots. **At least, with active reporting, sys. admin. world-wide should be able to readily erase all the posts of a spammer pronto**, since it's always daytime in the physical world somewhere on Yahoo. (Sys. admins deleting pronto would turn off the flow of abuse reports : )

Alternatively, Y!A sys. admin. could limit level 1 users to so few answers per day that the posting of spam would be impractical. Sign up does have manual entry of code for "This helps Yahoo! prevent automated registrations." Note that for this problem the prevention seems ineffective. Add more? Note also that one of the effective curbs upon spam is slowing them down so much they become impractical. The delay can be tolerable for legitimate messaging of one or a few at a time. Delay each post* at level 1 or 2? Accept the delay in exchange for a lot less spam?

* Delay of whatever time is effective per sys. admins and anti-spam pros.

CC: sent to answers-abuse.

Answer 2

If you are talking about the one that keeps making innapropriate posts to spam us all with a biker dating site regardless of what the question is, spam is against community guidelines, and a reportable offense. I agree that this person is totally innapropriate, and offers nothing constructive to the discussion in r&s, or f&m....

Answer 3

I've already reported her twice as a spammer and will report her again every time I see her reply.
Everyone else should do the same. If Yahoo! is flooded with complaints, they'll bar her from posting.

Answer 4

Who is this Jessica you write of and where do you want her to go, besides the obvious?

Answer 5

I have no idea who she is, but i will check her out just to report her.

Answer 6

Who's that person though?