How do I get my account back?

Some troll went and reported almost every answer I had today. I must have gotten about 10 violation emails this morning .. Now I come to sign on tonight and my account is suspended ! I was accused of soliciting prostitution and things of the like, which I have not.



My answer that was reported was ';Don't go into prostitution, there are better options'; and since the word was in it, It was violating Y!A terms ..



Anyways, to my point .. Can I get my old account back ? I can't even log into my email, it says I have to contact customer service. I was a level 4, with a high BA percentage .. and it's pretty sucky to lose it, lol :) Thanks in advance for the help ! %26lt;3How do I get my account back?
Trolls are like the characters from the Wizard of Oz without any of their positive traits - they're brainless, heartless, and cowardly, and I'm sorry they were able to zap you. Don't lose hope. I've never experienced a suspension, but of the five violations I've received, I've appealed and won three of them. Take a few minutes to write out a thorough appeal where you explain as much as you can about the violations you received, and why they were not justified because they did not break the Terms of Service. For the example you gave, explain that you were encouraging someone to look into better options than prostitution, and were by no means advocating it, and therefore your answer was not in violation of any rules. There are words that will get you flagged when reported - such as if someone wrote in a report that the question or answer was about child pornography, but as long as the word is not profane, writing it is not grounds for a violation. It all depends on how you use the word, and what you wrote is perfectly fine. Write the appeal calmly, and do not vent or whine. Try to be as factual as possible. Ask them to please look at the reports that were filed on your questions and answers and take note of the IP address of the reporter because you strongly suspect someone with a personal vendetta against you filed them. Though I'm not positive, I think anytime a report is filed the reporter's IP address is recorded, so Y!A will be able to see that it was the same person targeting you. If the person created multiple accounts Y!A will be able to spot them by the IP address, and he or she could have all their accounts suspended for harassment.



Write the appeal in a word file and save it to your computer. If you appeal and lose, appeal again. I had a question removed in August and appealed it and lost. I just grumpily let it go. In November I received an email from a user who said she'd reported the question out of jealousy (it was about a song I wrote) and was sorry. I appealed again with the exact same claim I'd written in August and saved to my hard drive, and the second time I not only won and had the question reinstated, I received a personalized note of apology from a staff member for their error in removing it the first go around and now granting the first appeal. It all depends on the person reading the appeal; some won't really bother reading it, and others will take the time to more carefully review your claim.

So be polite and persistent.



Good luck!



~ peaceHow do I get my account back?
u can appeal ur suspension, but honestly accounts are hardly ever reactivated so u may be stuck with the account that ur on now and start from scratch



%26lt;---- suspended 6 times, lost each appeal
awww

i'm so sorry that happened to you

unfortunately the yahoo nazis won't let you have your account back. it's lost forever.
If you cannot access the mail account associated with that profile you have no tools or evidence, which is a catch 22.

If you had saved all the violations in a folder (or Wordpad) you could file individual appeals for each violation, then fought to get the account back.

Level 4, losing that, painful as it is, is not so bad and can be made up for fairly quickly.

Expect some tips in your mailbox if you allow mail.
You can't, just make another one. Yahoo answers pretty much declines any answer you send them, no matter how detailed and informative it is.



But they don't care if you make an account with the exact same username, but with a different number at the end or beginning of it. It's not like they ban your IP address, so you can keep using the exact same computer or laptop.