Q&A: How do you think yahoo answers plans on stoping and fixing all of the spam?
Question by Pedro Beara: How do you think yahoo answers plans on stoping and fixing all of the spam?
I have been a frequent yahoo answers users ever since 2007. I have posted 10 questions within the week, and 9/10 responces are people copy and pasting websites / emails to scam. I have never seen spam this bad on any website, where did it come from and how does yahoo answers plan on blocking / stopping it?
Best answer:
Answer by Ross
Nope.
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about 1 year ago
I’ve gotta go with Ross on this, I doubt anything will get done. I was thinking about posting a URL, just to be a Jerk, but I could think of a good one.
about 1 year ago
Yahoo claims that they stop 3/4 of the spam before it hits the site. We are seeing the other 1/4. Which is a lot. Yahoo must be setting up some “filters” because there are some recent changes. Click on some of the spammers’ avatars and you will see that some of them are suspended (OOPS) after they post 2 answers. They are not getting OOPS’d because of user reports since it happens so fast.
Yahoo still wants us to use the Report Abuse button as our main defense against spam. That is not adequate since the spammers set up 20 accounts per day. Each account dumps its daily limit of 20 answers. Then they come back and do it again tomorrow.
Go to the Suggestion Board ( “ABOUT” at the top of the page has the link) where users discuss the increase in spam. A live Yahoo employee reads every post on the Suggestion Board.