Why was my answer deleted and penalized?

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Question: What is an economic downturn?

My Answer: Each country defines an economic downturn differently. For example, an economic downturn for China -- which has booming for many years now -- has to be defined differently than for a country like Germany where the population is ageing rapidly and the workforce is shrinking slightly. Roughly speaking, however, an economic downturn is when the total amount of economic activity in a given year falls below that of the previous year. For example, suppose that the US produces only cars. If the number of cars produced in one year falls below the number produced in previous years, there is an economic downturn -- which also means that employment and overall income will be lower. It's a little more complicated because the US produces thousands of types of goods, but that's the basic intuition.

Reason of Violation: Not a Question or Answer

Does Yahoo review allegations of abuse? Or, is deletion and penalization automatic?

Answer 1

Probably means someone on here doesn't like you or is jealous of you and reported you, making up this reason, even though I think you answered the questions very well. Yahoo just acts on any report and penalizes without even checking on it. Very bad practice.

Answer 2

It just happens. Who knows ..but, i really doubt that they review anything or about half the ones that get violated..would not be.

Answer 3

Don't even worry about it. There are just people on here who are stupid like that. They do dumb stuff for whatever reason, only god knows!!

Answer 4

You can dispute this with yahoo answers. I did, on one of my answers, and they apologized and gave me my points back.

Answer 5

because some dummox thought it was too wordy most likely.

Answer 6

my question too was terminated without proper explanation