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Has Anyone Else Had Issues With Reporting?

I was working on some spammers and leveling up accounts, and had seven of ten not removed.

Update:

Based on Whizzz's answer, I would hold off reporting, until there's some confirmation, that Community Moderation is working properly again. That way no undue damage is done to the trust rating.

Update 2:

Also the other answers give me reason to hold off, as well as recommending holding off, until things are back working properly again.

Update 3:

Everyone thanks for your answers. Hopefully things will stay sorted out, once they get to it. June your answer carried some good news, so for that the best answer is your's. Normally I try to get the best answer taken care of faster than this. But real life has to take first spot.

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  • Anonymous
    7 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    to those who have insta-drop ability:

    actually if you bookmark/track everything you report and check back on them 12 to 24 hours after you reported, you will see that they are dropping

    not one single thing I have reported during this long aggravating period of Community Moderation being on and off has remained - ALL my reports have dropped - there was and still is a delay of up to 24 hours mixed in with periods from 6 to 36 hours where CM is working as usual

    I reported five things about 16 hours ago that didn't drop - I just checked - all gone now :)

    I am no longer holding off on reporting - I am going about it as usual and during the times that insta-drop has been in effect, my TR is exactly as it was before - so I encourage you all to continue reporting and if you doubt me, keep the URLs of what you report and check back on them and you will see they have dropped, eventually, AND your TR is as good as it always was

    ADD: we now have slowa-drop and insta-drop LOL

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    I usually have instadrop-ability - which didn't work for several weeks during all of those updates. Then everything went back to normal for 2 days, but with the 3rd day again I got the problem of getting spam dropped. Since I wasn't sure what was going on, I created a folder in my Firefox browser named "YA spam accounts", reported spam like before, but also bookmarked those spam accounts and put them in the "YA spam accounts" folder to be able to verify whether my reports had been registered in the meantime or not. After 3 days I was thus able to confirm that most of my reported commercial spam had not dropped, so I mailed the accounts to the YAT - since then things have gotten better. But I sure as hell miss the good old Spam Battle Thread where we had more users helping each other no matter what the problem would be...:-)

  • Math
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    Yes. It worked well in the day but an hour ago I reported non answer and it didn't drop. Had to seek contact help for additional backup to drop it

    So now there won't be any reporting till it's fixed. I was planning to report spam tonight as it's been over a week I could barely report. Seems I'd have to wait

    But I'm still willing to help any contact drop something if he fails to drop

  • Grinch
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    Just now, yes.

    Everything was working fine earlier. Reported 4 answers in the past few minutes, and only one of the 4 dropped. *Sigh*

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    It is wonky Once Again.........Some will not drop even with two reports by users who can usually drop most things.

  • Fox
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    the past week or so yes, but I think that was a glitch problem, it seems more or less ok today

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Yahoo is finally getting wise to the reporting trolls reporting any thing they deem a violation, finally!

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