Is there anyone here who always receives violation notices for unreasonable causes?

Question

I always receive 2 or 3 violations everyday. But my answers are in english, not a form of chat, and I'm not fighting or insulting anyone!
Those answers that were deleted were based on reviews and real informations. And I'm strictly following those guidelines for God's sake!
What could be the cause of these unreasonable violations?

Answer 1

Sounds fishy, if you received multiple violation emails meaning you also have multiple stalker. Someone who doesn't like your presence on Y!A, same like me. I got stalker too, my last posted question was being deleted for an hour for they think i break another rules on their guidelines. If those violation emails came after an hour and not 5 minutes after, then it's being reported by someone. As far as i know, a Y!A staff or someone from Yahoo can automatically detect malicious activity on Q&A a minute after you posted it. Maybe it's time to set our profile Q&A to private, and only those people on our contact can view it.

This my Q being deactivated for 2 hours, and activated again less than an hour after i sent my appeal.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AoWjwrkqN.WiURoEV2y5BJzsy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20071122223507AAlHjTx

Answer 2

First thing that came to mind was to agree with the other answerers here that you might have a cyberstalker.

Then I reviewed the Community Guidelines, there were so many reasons for others to report our answers or questions. So we might just not know the reason behind it. Next thing we have to do when we receive the violation notice from Yahoo! is to check the answer or question that was reported. We might have overlooked something such as not being able to translate it to English, or someone found it offensive (since this is open to everyone, there are different kinds of people out there).

There are a lot of reasons actually, so it would really be hard to pinpoint which of those we violated. What I can suggest to you is for you to appeal the violation of course, AND to just enjoy Y!A and not be concerned with those violation notice. Just have fun!

Answer 3

In the past hardly a day would go by that I didn't receive a violation notice. The funny thing was that often answers that I was sure would be deleted weren't while what I thought were safe answers were deleted.
It became very frustrating and I got to the stage that I had to proof read each answer 2 or 3 times before posting.
Yahoo's guidelines are very loosely based and can be interpreted in many different ways.
If you get a violation contest it immediately, sometimes they do overturn a violation but not often.
My worst day was when I opened my e-mail and found about 6 violations waiting for me.

Answer 4

I'm so sorry to hear about your multiple violations. Most likely, Y!A has intensified its policing tactics which is of course their prerogative and for which we mere mortals have no defense against. The best I can say is appeal. Good luck.

The last violation notice I got was August 24 for this question - which in retrospect, isn't really a proper question so I guess I deserved that one.

Deleted Question: That's what friends are for......good times & bad times?

Answer 5

I get them too. I can only imagine there is a group of people who enjoy placing violations for little or no reason. Yahoo Answers needs to do something about these needless violations.

Answer 6

Everybody gets those. Yahoo seldom overturns a violation, plus they never, ever, tell you exactly why they consider what you did as being a violation. They are entirely vague about it, doing the "If you don't know what you did wrong then I'm not going to tell you" routine of adolescent girls. The entire thing is bogus.

Answer 7

I often get violation notices, too. People ask a question and then decide they don't like the answer. I have to say this. If you don't want to know, don't ask.

Answer 8

Best way to avoid being reported is to review and understand the Community Guidelines and Terms of Service. Read and reread them.

Maybe you have given other users loopholes for them to have reason to report you. Go over your questions and answers. What were deleted? What were the said violations? Compare them with the guidelines. Go over your best answers. Do they seem like having been voted by one person with multiple accounts or in connivance with other users?

Like Papa Chuck said, before you post read your question or answer 2 or 3 more times.

Answer 9

you're not alone anya.
might be a stalker and yahoo being unreasonable

i have tons of violations. all deleted at the same time.
i am not fighting and never will i insult anyone
but then again, like corinna and allsmiles said i must have violated the guidelines.

too many people here, too many trolls and too many suspects..... just too many.

Answer 10

Well, I did get a question booted because they said I was spam....
I asked "I forgot my Nimbus 2000 at home, can I borrow yours?"
Being that a Nimbus 2000 is a fictional flying broom from Harry Potter, I thought it was quite funny.