In my previous experience using the older Yahoo web script, 999 errors are a result of your account being banned, or the text of your answer being temporarily banned (24 hours usually). This can result from posting over your account's daily answer limit, or from others reporting your answers as spam. Remember, you can only post 20 answers per day on a new, level 1 yahoo answers account. If you think that others are flagging your answers as spam, you may want to work on your answer to make it sound less like a "sales pitch" and more like a genuine answer. This is also where creating multiple answers for the same item will come in handy. It is best to use your own website when promoting in Answers, but TinyURLs will work as well. Create multiple TinyURLs for the same item URL you want to promote, one for each separate Answer you create. You may even create multiple copies of the same answer, just for the sole purpose of putting a different TinyURL in them. Then you can load these multiple answers into Michel's Yahoo software and it should take care of the rest.after using the software a bit, i get an error 999 from yahoo.
is this a signal from yahoo that it limits the amount of times a URL can be posted in a set amount of time? or limit of times URL can be posted from an IP address in a set amount of time? or is it something else completely? has anyone experimented on this yet to see what it is?
In my previous experience using the older Yahoo web script, 999 errors are a result of your account being banned, or the text of your answer being temporarily banned (24 hours usually). This can result from posting over your account's daily answer limit, or from others reporting your answers as spam. Remember, you can only post 20 answers per day on a new, level 1 yahoo answers account. If you think that others are flagging your answers as spam, you may want to work on your answer to make it sound less like a "sales pitch" and more like a genuine answer. This is also where creating multiple answers for the same item will come in handy. It is best to use your own website when promoting in Answers, but TinyURLs will work as well. Create multiple TinyURLs for the same item URL you want to promote, one for each separate Answer you create. You may even create multiple copies of the same answer, just for the sole purpose of putting a different TinyURL in them. Then you can load these multiple answers into Michel's Yahoo software and it should take care of the rest.