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Why "top-10-answerers" list leaders allowed to cheat from multiple accounts (point-game)?

♦ 1) Why Yahoo team allows violation of community guidelines about point-game from multiple accounts? ♦ 2) Why they doesn't check IP-access reports to clear cheaters from "top-10-answerer" lists? ♦ 3) Why reporting such activity is useless against "top-10-answerer" lists leaders? ( both - to y_answrs_team@yahoo.com or by reporting abuse) Even if there are enough evidence (so probability of cheating is 99%)? ♦ 4) Do these leaders just pay money to remain invincible? ♦ 5) Is it acceptable if I will start to cheat this way? Will team discriminate me by deleting my account but leaving other cheaters accounts in top-list? Thanks for any relevant answers and explanations BR, Jurij. Re:...Bleeding Hearts ... Evidence: 1) Voting for wrong answers many times to vote-out other users. (many consequent occurrences) 2) Selecting best-answer only for set of users (even for wrong answers) - many times 3) Fans/Friends in contacts lists. 4) Stability over set of 30 answers selected as "best" by certain inadequate and fixed quantity of votes. 5) Hunting other users by answering question at last hour and then voting-out. 6) Sequence of access for set of accounts -, for instance 10 questions from one account, then 10 weakly relevant and foggy answers, then quickly selecting "best-answer" to close-up question. 7) Same style, same mistakes 8) Misleading other answerers by "all answered good byt you are lucky this time" - many times at row and in combination with selecting only one answerer as best. etc. etc. etc. List is very long. Re:...Bleeding Hearts ... Actually some accounts at low levels I've reported were deleted almost instantly (both reports as abuse on-line and by mailing) but for top-answerers list this doesn't work. I do know well enough how to make scientifically right conclusions by logic - so I'm not just mistaken or emotional of any sort with strong desire to remove someone - this is real evidence and real facts.

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1. You can try reporting them. It always works for a while.
2. Not everyone is posting from a private computer. There are some people posting from public terminals and it wouldn't be fair to them if they were unable to access the site because of some other idiot who point gamed. I understand your frustration. I'm somewhat lead to believe that many TCs and TAs are raging point gamers. With the exception of a few categories I am not finding their answers to be any more nuanced or thoughtful than other users. Yet they somehow seem to be awarded BAs quite often.
3. Honestly, I find it quite amusing if people do crap like this to be the top 10 on a online forum hahaha they have no friends and I pity them...just laugh they are really pathetic
4. What 'proof' do you have that any (or all) of them are doing what you claim? If you provide evidence of this type of thing to the YA team, with links to the multiple accounts showing evidence where someone, for example, is repeatedly giving Best Answers ONLY to 1 other person, they will investigate and if they can 'prove' it, they will suspend the account. I know, I've seen it happen, several times. Since you (and we) don't have access to all the data that YA does, it is hard for you to state that the probability of cheating is 99%.