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I do not wish for emails when others answer -- I have changed preferences and STILL your site will not do what I request. t
Fire your staff as they cannot follow simple instructions that yahoo has as policy.
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We have implemented changes to address this issue.
Please let us know if the problem persists.Yahoo Answers Support
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Make it easier to report and suspend problem users who harass others
People are getting away with harassment on a daily basis take this individual for example who is a long time user and has been getting away with this insulting and bullying for years he goes by LAN
https://answers.yahoo.com/activity/questions?show=j3Nh99eeaa
nearly every answer he gives insults the asker of the question and has been regularly violating community guidelines and terms of service and there is no way to contact yahoo about it
need more proof just look at his answer where he calls the asker stupid when they asked a real question and wanted real answers
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20191106151431AARYI0H
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Allow us to delete our questions after people have answered them.
Currently, if someone has answered a question I have posted, I am unable to delete that question, even if it is a spam answer. This is unacceptable, and I've put up with it for far too long. if I've got nothing but garbage or troll answers, I will never give somebody best answer, anyway, so what's the point?
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Allow us to block Anonymous answerers!
A lot of times, our questions are filled with troll answers who go Anonymous. This way, we can't block them and they continue to troll in our questions.
If we can block Anonymous users, this problem will be solved!
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Bring back the appeal email so we know our post has been reported and removed. It is sometimes very hard to keep track of your post.
We should not have to keep track of our appeals to post removed. We should be getting an email to inform us of a post being reported and removed. It was that way in the past and still should be again. It not an extra cost to Verizon. It has already been programmed
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You are enabling trolls to abuse the report system!
What happens if my content is wrongly reported?
I have received a few standard emails from Yahoo stating:
"...it has come to our attention that you may have violated the TOS(http://www.yahoo.com/r/ts). Please reread the TOS and cease any use of your account that may
violate the TOS.
If your use of your Yahoo! account is brought to our attention again,
and we believe that such use violates the TOS, then we may terminate
your account without further notice ..."I know that I am being wrongly reported by trolls and I have NO way to appeal this decision.…
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Return to the green design and taking serious measures against trolls, pornography etc.
Is the only way to regret the website to the normality.
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Allow us to block anonymous users....
Trolls abuse this feature. Let us block them.
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Anonymous questions - remove blocking
When an asker moves their question to ‘Anonymous’ any and all blocking should be removed for that question permanently.
You can add a confirmation button that informs the asker that blocking will be removed if you think it necessary to avoid mistakes.
The Anonymous feature is being misused in some sections as a trolling method.
With blocking active this allows the trolls to narrow by design the responses that will attach to their (loaded) question.
Since YA does not have the resources to police trolling this would provide a small mitigation.
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Mobile version has a poor user interface.
I can no longer see questions from all categories.
I only have the choice of Notifications or individual subject categories.
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You can IMPROVE Yahoo Answers by getting RID of and BANNING the serial stalker, and pest, with the User Name "Ninefinger".
This user "Ninefinger" is well known to the Yahoo Customer Care team, as a SERIAL Pest and Stalker, with ZERO regard for any rules or guidelines here and has been suspended countless times for stalking, harrassment, point gaming, and continuous insulting of other members.
He was been attacking my account ceaselessly for the last FOUR years. He has been suspended countless times for it already. But he operates so MANY accounts here.......suspending any ONE of them, doesn't do a ** thing. He just hops over to one of his other accounts, changes the name to "Ninefinger" again, and carries right…
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Please can all questions for R&S be vetted before postings as PICS of Vaginas and Penises, things about ****** are not okay.
Vet postings to R&S especially and in particular before they are posted.
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Fix your glitches!!! On mobile version i can't change the category. When i click edit category, the process freezes.
Just make sure everything is working properly, no glitches or hold ups in asking or answering questions. A lot of answers don't appear on the question page as well, they stay hidden in the notifications panel, this glitch has been going on for maybe about a year.
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Incentivize answering by fixing the Leaderboard
At present, the "points earned this week" on our profiles isn't accurate at all. Fix that, and then fix the inaccurate Leaderboard as well to boost activity on Y!A(and so, we get more answers to our questions). An additional suggestion in this regard is to create a search tool for the Leaderboard, so we can track which position we are at instantaneously instead of scrolling down until we rot and die.
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stop sending meaningless warnings
Tell us WHICH guideline we "may" be violating instead of
"...it has come to our attention that you may have violated the TOS(http://www.yahoo.com/r/ts). Please reread the TOS and cease any use of your account that may
violate the TOS.
If your use of your Yahoo! account is brought to our attention again,
and we believe that such use violates the TOS, then we may terminate
your account without further notice ..."17th ranked -
Restoring the possibility for 7th level users to move questions to their right section. There are too many trolls who voluntarily post quest
Restoring the possibility for 7th level users to move questions to their right section.
There are too many trolls who voluntarily post questions about inappropriate sections.21st ranked -
Remove sexually explicit pictures
Remove sexually explicit material from Yahoo answers
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Add user's username and avatar beside the questions on the mobile site please
I like that I can see user's usernames and avatars beside their answers, but I want to be able to see who asked the questions too on the mobile site.
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There needs to be some kind of anti-spam there are people that spam the same question over and over.
There was the capture nobody like it but it did the job.
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