It
has been a few weeks since we released the new beta of community
moderation. The early results are very, very promising. You, the
Answers community, are removing the most abusive questions and answers
within minutes! And the average time to remove abuse is getting faster
and faster each day. Accuracy rates are equally impressive and also
improving daily. We manually review each report and have found that
abuses removed through the new system have a better than 98% accuracy
rate. We?ve kept the system in a conservative mode for now (to see how
it performs) by focusing on the most abusive or blatant violations and
it is working. You are doing great!
Of course, there are many improvements to be made. We are progressively
tuning the system to make things better, reviewing thousands of abuse
reports to determine if our algorithms are effective at identifying the
most trusted reporters. Some of you have asked about the exact way we
measure a trusted reporter, but we can?t release this information. It
would be like Yahoo! Mail telling people how they determine spam email
from good email. If you report well and participate responsibly in the
community, you become trusted and have more impact in the community.
We will be updating you regularly on the progress of community
moderation, especially as we expand the system based on the early
success.
Congrats and thanks to all of you who are taking an active role to keep Answers healthy and growing!
The Yahoo!Xtra Answers Team
P.S. We also want to encourage you to report more spam.