Specifically for Dr Jello, I would be happy if all of his questions were deleted. Since he asks more questions than anyone else, and he refuses to let me answer them, all they do is clutter my screen. What's worse is that they don't show whose question it is until you click on it now (although I can usually guess his questions), so it's even more of a time waster.

If people just rant without asking a question, I do think it should be reported and deleted. This is "Yahoo Answers" and not "Yahoo Rants".

Virtually nothing I report ever gets deleted, though--I guess I need more than one account.

No, it shouldn't be reported. Only serious violations should be reported.

If you want a serious conversation about science go to a scientific website, which would be a site like realclimate, if you are talking about global warming.

I remember that Kano once posted a thread to wish people a Merry Christmas. Later I saw he posted something about that post being reported and deleted. Yes, it was chatting, and no, he shouldn't have blamed "warmers" for it being deleted. But what was the harm in his post?

Realists have reason and evidence on our side. Why do we need to resort to censorship in this debate? And censoring "skeptics" legitimizes claims to the effect that we want to take away people's freedom.

I think it's fair, there have been so many ridiculous statements on global warming, like global warming increases prostitution or causes ebola and a million other stupidities, that Jello's stupid question is not so over the top, compared to the farcical manner that many of the media treat it.

Okay it is a statement not a question, but it is put forward in a way that people can debate it, I do not consider it a rant, he is not abusing or denouncing people (not like Hey Kook does)

no. In all my time with this group, I have reported a 'question' only once.......a pretty scummy racial comment.

Reporting should be used for serious violations only.....and not used to censor an opposing stance.

That is not a violation, it is talking about AGW. You may not like what he is saying about the "correlation equals causation" that seems to be present in everything within AGW, but it is a valid statement.

I don't know about reporting it but it is pretty funny.

No question is a person who is typing slower than he is thinking. And not re-reading what he just wrote. Ignore it. He is losing 5 points everytime he has to ask and he has to ask again and maybe think about the question he really wants to ask, that is, IF he wants an answer. Otherwise there are chat rooms.

I ignore them, for maybe for this person English is not his first language. I have seen statements with a ? at the end. Just by having the ? mark, does not make it a question.

Reporting is the most broken feature of this flawed site. Most of the questions reported are NOT serious violations, many are not violations AT ALL. And, nearly EVERY blatant violation goes UNreported. Yahoo appears happy with having this land-mine-layer plague its site, but don't waste your time trying to use it, or even understand the "logic" of it.

Avoid using reporting, and protect yourself against it by making copies of any Q or A you'd rather not lose to vaporization.

Edit: Kano here, of the broken mirror, fails to distinguish between "abuse," "denunciation" and "exposing massively and knowingly repeated anti-science lies." I won't speculate about what or who has been vaporizing so many of my questions lately, but I doubt it is the haywire YA computer program itself. I am making a copy of this answer, and will reserve the right to repost it, if it is vaporized, as often as I wish, to whatever other page it may apply.

You get BAs from the Dorkster and you question this? I think you should change the ingredients that you smoke.

Yes, there isn't a question so it should be reported.

Any post, in any category, that is a statement and not a question, is a violation.

Does a post like this deserve to be reported?

I might note that I could report it, but didn't.

However, the question is, should it be reported?

"jello says, "Global warming scientists agree with the comment that global warming does increase the number of home runs in baseball.

Global warming scientists agree with the statement made by a sports commentator that global warming does cause more homeruns to be hit in baseball. Here is a graph that shows conclusively that increasing temperatures cause more home runs. There's been a fewer homers hit in the last 18 years, but that doesn't disprove the theory because the homers are hidden in the minor leagues. As soon as those players get promoted to the majors, the homers will increase again. "

Note that there's no question there at all.

None.

Should it be reported?

Global warming deniers should be banned for their confusion.