Report Abuse: "Reported by Orion ( your identity will not be revealed to the abuser )" (o.O)?

Question

"... to the abuser"

(o.O)

Has Yahoo never heard "innocent till proven guilty"?

Does Yahoo believe -every- complaint is a legitimate one, and that everyone who receives a complaint -must- be an "abuser"?

Not an "alleged abuser".

Not "accused".

No, the fact you've pressed the Report Abuse button -proves- (to Yahoo's limited awareness of justice and fair play) that the individual in question -is- an "abuser".

(o.O)

And they say Fascism is dead (O.O)

What say you?

Anyone who thinks Yahoo actually investigates complaints (or responds to those wrongly accused) needs to read that sentence again:

"your identity will not be revealed to the abuser"

Case Closed (O.O)

Answer 1

Yep, isn't that fun?

Answer 2

I do wonder how much they follow up on abuse claims before closing an account. If there's no due diligence, then I would consider that to be a form of fascism.

There are so many borderline offensive comments that can be made. So many people have hairtrigger morality alarms that get set off easily. Ideally, Yahoo would add more moderators in a peer-review system so that these complaints can be fairly checked out before jumping to conclusions.

I hope Yahoo is reading this...

Answer 3

I agree they do need to change the wording. But honestly they have thousands if not millions of complaints every day. I would respond to the instances of multiple reports and have the single reports sent an automatic notification of the complaint and let them know no formal action was taken. I don't know how yahoo handles it. To my knowledge, I have never been reported.

Answer 4

Excellent point.

I do not for one moment think that Yahoo investigates instances when users report abuse. Nor do they investigate when the "abuser" attempts to submit a complaint about having been reported.

*Angrily shakes fist at computer screen*

Answer 5

I've always been of the opinion that it is an automated system, and that actual cases aren't looked at by a real human until or unless you complain about the violation you were given.

Yes, they aren't too very American are they? No justice sytem for them - guilty, and we don't often care if you can prove innocence.

Fadcism never died, honey - they just renamed it Homeland Security!

Answer 6

The abuse methods are very one sided. It should be a total policy to look at the question and all answers and determine if the whole issue is a correct or incorrect one.

Answer 7

Yes we're guilty if someone says we are on here. Its so much fun seeing if the answer that got picked best will then get reported as abuse. Don't use your main account on answers, your emails will go poof.

Answer 8

It is unfair. The people who aren't really abusers get their accounts deleted and the people who really are abusers keep running around trying to cause chaos.

Answer 9

I imagine it would be hard to investigate all of the complaints, so I agree with you.

Answer 10

What an idiotic way of looking at it ... you probably would recommend that those accused of child molestation should be given full access to the child until the trial date, just in case the courts are wrong. "innocent until proven guilty" you say ... and another child dies.

Answer 11

I'd say that it's time to willingly turn yourself in for reprocessing, citizen. ;)

Yeah, they should change their wording, even if they don't change their policies.