Scroll trolls on Yahoo Answers

Ever since the birth of yahoo answers back in 2005, I've been a big fan and user of it. I've also pondered time and again ways that it could become a better service and help eliminate trolls. One troll that could programatically be eliminated from Yahoo Answers would be the scroll trolls. They rely on tons and tons of space to post a bunch of garbage and you have to scroll down their entire "answer" to see what the next answer is.

So, what would be a good way to motivate Yahoo into doing some programming to not allow responses with a bunch of white space or other nonsense for the sake of taking up space? They don't listen to what other users suggest to them. They a bunch of lazy people who do minimal amounts of work to keep the service up and running. If only they would put ME in charge!

This would make a great news headline:

Terry Funk, AKA I DJ Weddings on Yahoo Answers, turns down an offer to become President of the United States so that he could instead by President and CEO of Y!A.

OK, back to what I was talking about. What would be a good way to get those lazy website developers of yahoo to put in some code to stop the scroll trolls? Become a scroll troll! That's right. Here's a little canned message I put as answers to help get the word out:

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Yahoo Answers tolerates scroll trolls by allowing you to have a lot of white space inside of your answer when they could easily eliminate this problem programmatically. Yahoo is lazy.







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Picture a lot more white space, I was only trying to get the point across in this blog post.

As it turns out, trolling is actually kind of fun. I've never trolled before this. But this is an exception, and I'll continue to oppose trolls as long as I'm alive.