Does it do any good to Block the Chibots, or are there random millions of them and it would be useless?

If it forces Yahoo! to act, it's all for the good. I hope they cripple Answers. I reported a few thousand of them on New Year's Eve, and to show its appreciation, Yahoo! suspended my account.

Now, if you go to the Comments sections of Yahoo!'s new stories, you'll find little trolling and certainly no bot posts. The situation can be dealt with, if and when Yahoo! decides to clean things up.

Here's what Yahoo says:

"You probably remember the overwhelming amount of spam present on the site a couple of months ago, with spam written in Mandarin being the most prevalent. We added several new spam filters and updated some old ones; this resulted in spam decreasing by ~95% across the site. We’re still making adjustments to continually lower spam and our false positive rate."

WELL TRY HARDER!

Go ahead and block them if you like. Once you've hit your max of 200 accounts that can be blocked, the bots will still be creating new accounts and posting. Plus, it doesn't stop you from seeing the bot posts in any question you answer, even if you've blocked some of their accounts.

I think it's useless. I've reported them but that took so long and didn't make a difference. It will stop once Yahoo decides it needs to be repaird and they figure out how to fix the problem.

as useful as pissing in the ocean...

Blocking us useless.

These spambots are made by clever Russians in anticipation of the next American election.

The Russians know Trump has already taken too much heat for collusion so they want to make certain the next cyber attack gets blamed on someone else.

Pure genius!

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If one is blocked or banned, another will be created. Pointless.

There are random millions.

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