Your account or IP is blocked by Supervisors if your contributions violate the Community Guidelines or Community Etiquette (rules). You can find these in the Help Centre.
Because blocking vandals does not change the actual appearance of the site.
You cannot block questions on WikiAnswers. Only Supervisors have the ability to get rid of a question, but there is no such action as 'blocking a question'.
Contact your network administrator. WikiAnswers will not help you bypass filters or site blocking.
You can prevent bots from answering your questions on WikiAnswers with useless pat answers by blocking their IP addresses as soon as you notice them.
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Indeed it does. Although we supervisors are unpaid volunteers on site, all our actions are for the community of WikiAnswers. Be it blocking a vandal or editing a question or answer, these are classed as community service.
You will get blocked after repeated offenses, and will not be able to make or change answers. This is likely to be a permanent blocking.
There is no way to completely stop spam on Answers nor any other site. That said, warning people and blocking IP addresses are ways to reduce spam. Other than that, we all just have to keep cleaning it up.
i think they keep them for people to answer
If a WikiAnswers Supervisor is found to be abusing any of their powers, they are demoted immediately and taught how to use them correctly. If a Supervisor is knowingly abusing their powers, they are blocked from contributing.
Click the "Warn/block" option from your blue menu barAs you're asking this question, you are most likely a new Super, therefore ensure you read through the Blocking Policy Checklist, and Blocking Policy Q&A's.Click the "Block" radio buttonCopy and paste the IP address into the IP address/username boxAdd a legitimate reason for blocking in the "Reason" boxSelect the duration of the block - the default is 3 hoursClick "Block user."For more information on WikiAnswers policy on the blocking of IP addresses, click on the Related link.
It will keep going until ummmmmmmmmmm well until sum1 says its time 2 stop. it will stop when the boss of wikianswers says so.