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.

Don't make me get all gangster on you

As a proud wedding DJ and self proclaimed sheriff of yahoo answers, I'm proud to have attorney Adam Edelstein on my side. He is also a user on yahoo answers, and we work together to intimidate people who don't follow the rules.

He is an attorney based in Ohio, my home state (even though Google has nothing to say about an Attorney with that name in Ohio.)

I was tickled pink when someone asked a question about him a few months ago on yahoo - "Would adam edelstein shake your hand or shake you down?"

I just love it! I want to make my attorney a star. The same user asked another question about him - "Adam edelstein...... bi or plain old back passage boy?"

I hate trolls so much and I would personally like to end their pathetic lives.

Also, Adam Edelstein is the weirdest person that I know, as I said so on yahoo. I totally wish I would have gotten best answer for this to help make this attorney of mine more famous but I did not. Oh well. I've got multiple accounts on yahoo so I'll probably ask a question about him and give myself best answer as I sometimes do to keep my Top Contributor status.

In addition to having an excellent attorney who will sue the crap out of you if you're not nice, Yahoo provides me with a tool for looking at a user's questions and answers even if they're private. I admit that this is a little bit exaggerated since its possible to look at a user's pulse page to view their questions and answers if they don't turn off "Share updates". But making this ability sound unique to me is enough to send a shiver down a troll's spine!

So if the user turns off 'Share Updates', there is a tool which is available for people who hate trolls which allows you to see their hidden questions and answers. Not necessarily all, but some. This link should take you to a list of some of MY questions and answers, even though I hide my activity so that trolls can't look for a reason to report me. Its to show you that the tool does work.

You need to be signed into Yahoo for this to work, as well as accept the terms and conditions. To view hidden questions and answers of another user, you just need that tool and their Yahoo ID.

So . . . there you have it. I'm a gangster. A GOOD GUY gangster who lurks on the internet looking for trolls to punish. That's the way it is. Don't mess with me and I won't mess with you. You don't have to like me, but don't talk ill of me behind my back - or I might see you in court.