It appears Yahoo Answer is trying a new reporting system. It seems to me there is always someone in the hockey section that is dropping rascist,sexist or ignorant remarks. Do you think the new system will do anything to help keep these people away? I also noticed they frown upon "chatting", do you think this will hurt our top contributors that post non-questions when they're bored?
2007-09-08 03:03:19 · 15 answers · asked by mplsundin 4 in Sports ➔ Hockey
Glad someone could show us all what useless commentary/answers we're trying to get rid of *cough* *cough* Benjamin P.
2007-09-09 15:21:51 · update #1
Actually it appears the racist, sexist and ignorant remarks have been fairly quiet the past few days. Guess we'll just have to take the wait and see approach.
2007-09-08 05:14:56 · answer #1 · answered by TDK 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, I'm going to have to do one of those "answer with a question" dealies. When was the last time Answers did something that works to fix their problem? Yahoo loves to promote stupidity and I just tried one of those reporting abuse things on that "Black people playing hockey" question. It's a joke. The way you report it is so vague that it's open to any interpretation. Oh, I'm asking a question about the Toronto Film Festival in the Canada>Toronto section, but it's supposed to be in movies....ten points off for me!
What yahoo needs is a group of people to actually look at the abuse reports and make their own judgement call instead of getting a computer to do it.
2007-09-08 12:22:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-04 05:00:13 · answer #3 · answered by bedlion 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Community Moderation is a joke. It's no different than what we have now. It is up to the user to create a report about an offender. The difference now is that the report will be treated differently based on your history of asking, and answering questions, as well as your history of reporting offenders.
So, if someone decides to heckle us......and everybody reports the offender...some users will be taken more seriously than other users.
This basically creates a class society.
Oh, and if you are doing well at reporting....Yahoo Answers will call you a 'Top Reporter'.
Are we all 10 yrs old or what? Yeah, like I want that title!
End of Rant!
2007-09-08 03:55:43 · answer #4 · answered by Like I'm Telling You Who I A 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo built it but I think they need to let us have some leeway on how we use it. As for the dorks with the rude comments, well maybe if they're on here doing that, they aren't trying to steal little old ladies' handbags or sell crack on the school grounds.
What's a top contributor anyways?
LikeI'mtellingyou: will top reporters get a badge do you think?
2007-09-08 04:12:58 · answer #5 · answered by PuckDat 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Chatting? Here? Naw, its more like well explained angles to their answers. I'm sure some people have posted questions that may look like comments but are designed to receive a response that may either verify or contradict their position. That qualifies it as a legitimate question.
But now that you mention it, I may have seen instances of people trying to entice others into making non hockey related comments by disguising their comments as questions.
Gordie Howe never would have done that.
2007-09-08 03:54:07 · answer #6 · answered by cme 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was clearing up on its own before the new reporting gimmick was debuted.
As the case is in any other section, there are periods where things get nasty, then everyone moves on. Should have been there after Italy won the soccer World Cup in 2006, it got downright ugly there.
2007-09-08 10:10:43 · answer #7 · answered by Awesome Bill 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I hope so, recently there have been a few folks in this section that just seemed to thrive on pissing off those of us that enjoy this section for what it's supposed to be. and for a while I stopped visiting, in my personal opinion I hope it does at least get rid of the ones that are just messing it up for those of us that like it here.
2007-09-08 03:56:11 · answer #8 · answered by Teal Blue 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Don't think it'll change much from the way it is now. While I'm all for getting rid of racist and sexist comments....ignorance can be a matter of perspective.
2007-09-08 07:37:03 · answer #9 · answered by Babber420 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think its a huge step in the right direction (next stop, fire Bettman) Great move from Yahoo. Now we can report those cheating answers (not mentioning any names) and the poeple who are mean to us all (rhymes with Dude)
2007-09-08 03:37:12 · answer #10 · answered by TBL 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋