I answered a political question that had been open for several months and was very interested in the responses. Today I check back and find that the question is GONE. (I also found almost 1/2 dozen resolved questions I'd answered listed as "removed", including the question on comma placement in a sentence.) Why the difference and what's going on? Why bother to put so much thoughtful effort into a question only to have it pulled, even after it has been resolved?
2007-01-17 17:56:50 · 5 answers · asked by ... 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Older questions posted not removed?
What's 'Common Knowledge' to some is not to others. That's the purpose of Y!A.
2007-01-17 18:11:54 · update #1
Come on, the size of removed questions is minuscule. This is yahoo, they have the entire net indexed. Storage is pennies a MB, there is no need to remove for size.
I too have wondered about this. A couple questions I answered recently have been removed - they were in math and physics, and could in no way have been construed to be offensive, or in any way against the rules. People can remove their own questions, questions without answers are removed, and questions that violate Yahoo guidelines (offensive, commercial, ...) are removed. Some don't seem to fit in any of those categories.
2007-01-17 20:31:41 · answer #1 · answered by sofarsogood 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yahoo removes them for some reason or other! Much of the time they should be removed, though they tend to go a little overboard with their broad interpretation of their broad rules in some cases!
Sometimes a person removes them!
If they wanted to they could remove every question and every answer the way they interpret their own rules.
Seems Yahoo doesn't have much trouble reporting children to law enforcement for kiddie porn, when in fact the pics were embedded and the poor kid was arrested!
2007-01-18 02:07:28 · answer #2 · answered by cantcu 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I deleted my question after I was satisfied with the answer because I didn't want anyone to know the details of my question. Just in case someone comes accross it who happens to be related to the question I am asking. I guess on my part its for piece of mind.
2007-01-18 02:05:41 · answer #3 · answered by hurt 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The space on this forum is not infinite. Like any other forum or base program, there is a limit to what can be stored. It is not infinite. If some of the items are not deleted after a certain time limit, other new data could not be accepted or stored for any length of time either.
2007-01-18 02:04:27 · answer #4 · answered by Comanchero 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
They have done this to me also.... i can not figure it out either..... maybe there is a nobody that likes power-tripping on yahoo censors..... power feels good........lol
2007-01-18 02:03:17 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋