Why are we even allowed to move the questions of other people? What was the purpose of that? Because it's being abused.?

When I first joined this site if a question was submitted in the wrong category then it could be reported and deleted. Some users did not take into account that newbies to the site often put the question into the wrong category by mistake or it could be caused by computer errors. Such a shame really because not everyone reported questions in the wrong category, we just answered them if we knew the answer.

Now it seems all level 7s can move questions, and like everything else on this site after a while that facility is abused, to be honest I think that facility should be removed from level 7s. Just leave the facility to an asker to move their own question if it is in the wrong category.

Ask Justin Thyme aka Ryde On, he is always moving them.

The purpose was because LOTS of questions were ending up in the wrong category, so someone on at Yahoo Answers (years ago) thought it would be safe enough to let Level 7s move questions, because to get to that level on the site it was assumed the user was likely to be responsible and follows the rules (they were only partly right). While many Level 7s use the feature responsibly, or don't use it at all, there are also plenty that abuse it and use it to harass specific users or parts of the Community in general.

What Yahoo should have done was provide an easy way to report abuse of the feature, and penalty. Before Yahoo was sold to Verizon, it was possible to contact Customer Care directly and provide links to questions being inappropriately moved. If they investigated and determined abuse was occurring, they were known to bust the abuser back down to Level 6. Now, there's no reliable way to contact anyone to do anything about it. It's a useful feature, but there should be a penalty for those who abuse it.

Yahoo said that the purpose of this was to help those who placed their questions in the wrong category and that experience level 7 users could now move them to a proper category. At this time a lot of question was missed placed. But like everything else here many users misused it. At first, if someone was reported for misplacing questions they were point reductions down to a level 6. But that stopped and the system has been abused since.

It's disgraceful the way it's being abused. Nobody should be allowed to move another person's question.

It's a 70/30 deal. 70% useful so the feature is kept.

Yahoo thought they could Trust Level 7 users to do the right thing and Correct Questions that were in the Wrong Category to the Right Category and your Right it is being Abused they need to get Rid of It

Sadly I dont think that is going to Happen anytime soon

I move two or three questions a day, without announcing it or making a big deal, because people post in the wrong category all the freaking time. "I need to book a hotel room in Oahu" lands in Books & Authors, "How much wheat grows in a one-acre field" was in Baseball; and "How can an immigrant with no family find sponsors?" in some business category, I forget which.

So there's a lot of good-user behind the scenes moving going on constantly, without fanfare.

What I'd like to see is a way to report malicious moves, and a category where Level 7 users can move abusive and trolling posts that makes it so they cannot be moved elsewhere, until YA does something about them.

So if someone asks a question that is triggering or poses an impossible challenge to a millennial they can quickly get rid of it and retreat to a safe place

people ask the stupidest questions especially lbgt atheists about religion