"Report abuse" option in Yahoo Finance Conversations is broken?
I have used the "report abuse" option on a number of link spammers, "awesomeSTO-CKS" spammers, "the-stock*dork" spammers, but it does nothing. Over a week later, I still see the spam posts if I am not logged into my account. Look for user name Brianna and Alexandra in particular as the most obvious spam bots in the following forum:
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GLD/community
"I was getting really sick of the market always taking my money so I went out and found a service that gives me one solid stock pick every week. So far they have been awesome. Just go to the-stock*dork to join."
"Looking for some of the best stock picks on the market? You need to go to the-stock-dork right now then!"
Look at how bad the bots are hammering Citigroup's forums:
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/C/community?p=C
I see a few in PFE and JPM's forums as well:
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/JPM/community?p=JPM
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/PFE/community?p=PFE
There are even more but I don't have time to flag nor list them all.
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David Smith commented
Yahoo, can you please do something about the spammers who continuously spam links to pump articles? They severely ruin the quality of these boards.
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barry weinstein commented
The BAC conversation is filled with paid political accounts with divisive names making divisive comments - get off the stock board by rule and set up a new area for political comments that nobody will ever look at!!
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Adam Smith commented
RetInvLon, I hear you. It is a shame Yahoo is choosing not to enforce its own rules on abusive accounts. In some of the Yahoo boards, I see them full of spammed links to click bait pump articles. Lots of unnecessary personal attacks and etc on the Yahoo boards as well.
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RetInvLon commented
Examples of accounts that never get banmed no mattet hpw many times legitimate users report them, below
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RetInvLon commented
It's worse than that actually. If you try to challenge them, they report you en masse with their multiple accounts and identities. Every time I tried to challenge one of them resulted in me getting banned by yahoo from the boards. Now every time I show up, I get banned immediately even if I don't challenge them. Yahoo is joke.
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Geoffrey Lennon commented
Lots of link spammers trying to direct people to shallow pump articles and other very questionable articles. I look into the post history of some of these spammers and it is full of spammed links. Reporting these spammers does nothing. Come on Yahoo staff and developers, get it together. The link spam has been really bad in some of these forums.
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Tim Velazquez commented
Yea I'm seeing a youtube link spammer too. Reporting him doesn't seem to do anything.
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David Smith commented
From what I've seen, I think Yahoo has been doing a respectable job of removing any reported stock alert spammers. However, they seem to be completely ignoring link spammers. I've tried reporting this guy spamming youtube links but his spam always stick around.
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Alex commented
There have been an increasing number of link spammers in general. Not just these stock alert spam bots. I've tried reporting them a number of times to no avail. I'm also seriously questioning the 'reporting' function next to the comments. Does it do anything at all?
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David Ledezma commented
Look at the new posts (pure overwhelming spam) in these boards:
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/MMM/community?p=MMM
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Anthony commented
Can anyone confirm whether or not this reporting function actually worked? Did this remove any of the bot spam at all?
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DW commented
I just hit "report abuse" on ten of those awesome stock / stock dork bots. It would be nice if reporting them actually did something meaningful. Note that if you sort the Citigroup board by newest, you can easily see just how active these bots still are over there.
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Stan commented
I don't often see the spam bots in the "Top Reactions" section anyone however they are very apparent when you're looking for up-to-date discussions in the "Newest Reactions" section.
I tried reporting spam bots posting these kinds of lines: "If we are to go off the RSI then you could argue that a pull back next day or so could occur on GLD before rallying up. check out awesom-eSTOCKS, its a pretty reliable service. of course you have to do your own due diligence, but they generally point you in the right direction."
Reporting them doesn't seem to do anything.
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Stan commented
I always wondered if that report abuse next to spammer's comments did anything. It seems like a placebo if anything.