Does anyone ever wonder why yahoo doesn't put a limit on the numbers of accounts you can make?

Question

I went to their suggestion board once and said it would be nice if they could put a limit on the number of accounts a person could make and of course I got the generic contact a yahoo answers administrator, blah blah blah.

Do they get more money when more "people" make accounts?

I'm assuming it just wouldn't be practical for them to put some kind of limit on multiple accounts.

::sigh:::

I guess that's GWS right? What would this board be without the one or two people who troll.

Answer 1

They can't without charging for accounts.  You can just make a new account through a proxy server which will give you a different IP address.

Answer 2

thats a horrible idea. ive been suspended 3 times already and if they made a limit on accounts then i wouldnt have gotten the chance to answer this question and you wouldnt have gotten the chance to give me 10 points

Answer 3

it would be hard to do...how can they know it is the same person for such or such account...

Answer 4

It's just not practical.  Someone could be using a public computer, and if one person makes an account on there no one else can.  Multiple people could have accounts on a home computer.  IP addresses change for people who use dial-up connections so that won't work.

It's not just GWS that's like that.  Most sections have trolls like that.  

Answer 5

Actually, it's pretty much impossible to know who is creating an account even with an IP.  I could set up one from home, and another from work, and another from the coffee shop, and another from the public library, ...  And never mind how many I could set up while walking through the bistro district picking up free wireless at the pizza shops and pubs.

get the picture?

Answer 6

The more ids- accounts the more they can charge advertisers.  

Answer 7

It is possible.  The more "people" they have the more people are assumed to see the ads.  But how do they know it is simply not a public computer and people there really are not 100 accounts on that one? Or can you make multiple accounts with the same email address?