Why was this question reported?

[oklatonola]

Reported for being a chat violation. YA is NOT a chat forum. YA is knowledge exchange form with a STRICT question answer format, NOT A PLACE TO CHAT. That is what Facebook, Google +. Twitter and OTHER Internet message boards are for, CHATTING. You were flame baiting, trolling. Trolling is NOT allowed by OTHER YA COMMUNITY MEMBERS who understand the Community guidelines.

"...What is a troll?


Resolution

A "troll" is someone who intentionally and persistently posts inflammatory messages about sensitive topics to bait users into responding or provoke a confrontation. We also consider people to be trolls when they persistently misuse product features such as the ratings system to negatively target others.


Last updated: November 14, 2012..."

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"...How does Community Moderation work?


Description

This article describes moderation of questions & answers in Yahoo! Answers community.


Resolution

Community reporting empowers reliable Answers users to help us more quickly remove inappropriate questions & answers. Members of the community who reliably identify and report questions and answers will have more influence than others. If a question or answer is reported by one or more reliable users, it will be removed.



Last updated: July 16, 2012..."

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"...What is considered "chat"?


Description

This article defines the term "chatting."


Resolution

Yahoo! Answers is a question-and-answer community of people sharing knowledge. We provide a couple of different ways for members to connect with one another, including email, instant message, and a comments area, so chatting in questions and answers is not allowed. When people use Answers to chat with each other, it lowers the quality of the site and inhibits knowledge-sharing.

Yahoo! Answers is not meant to be about gaming or playing a game, it is about sharing knowledge with other Yahoo! users across the world and, for this reason, questions involving gaming are not allowed.

Here are a few examples of what we consider chatting:

How (are you, old are you, was your day, is everyone today)?
What are you/What am I (doing, thinking of, wearing, etc.)?
Guess my/Can you guess my/What's your (name, age, sex, weight, birthday, location, etc.)?
Who is from…/Who plays …here/Who wants to chat
Do you like my (avatar, web site, poem, etc.)?*
Who wants to celebrate my birthday, drivers license, first 100 points, level 7?
Where is user (nickname) gone?
Avatar games and games of any nature
We also consider questions that call out other users by name to be chatting. If the intent is to ask a follow-up question in response to someone else's question and that person is not available via email or IM, post a new question that's open to everyone in the community to answer -- there might be someone else who's better equipped to answer it.

Note: Exceptions to this rule would have to satisfy two criteria: The question would have to be 1) advice-seeking and 2) knowledge-worthy. For example, it would be OK to ask "How can I improve my poem?" or "How do I make my avatar look more attractive?"



Last updated: July 13, 2012..."

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