Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers blog

We have now taken the next step in our plan to aggressively and pro-actively combat trolls on Yahoo! Answers, and while the secrets of our new system must be kept safely guarded, we can discuss some of the ideas behind our new approach to combating troll abuse.

Abuse is essentially misuse – for all intents and purposes. Trolls and spammers specifically take the features on Answers that we all have access to and misuse them for their own purposes. So essentially, one of the key facets to our new defence system is preventing the misuse of some of Answers’ key features.

We realize that this is vague, but rest assured that the team has put a lot of work into this next phase in troll prevention. We take this type of abuse very seriously, and we have much more planned for the New Year. While we ready the next stage of our plan to combat trolls and spammers, you can continue to help us out by vigorously reporting abuse. Your reports help, so keep them coming. Also send us your feedback in the forums.

For a little reminder of what constitutes abuse you may want to check out this previous blog post.

Thank you,

– Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers team