Last night I had answered a question about Christians being dumb for believing in the Bible. I spent a lot of time on the answer. Now this morning the question is not in my list and I can't locate it. Why do these questions disappear and what happens to the points we receive when respond to them?
2007-07-13 04:55:47 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Thank you for the answers. How do we know whether our answer was deleted or why a question was deleted?
As for the question about why I would spend time answering a "dumb" question. If I answer a question, I do so to give the best information I have. I take seriously my ability to communicate and my ability to think. I may not always be right, but I will try to give a well-thought out and intelligent answer.
2007-07-13 05:49:05 · update #1
If you answer a question that the asker or Yahoo! deletes, you keep your points.
If Yahoo! deletes an answer you give, you lose 12 points--10 for the violation of the TOS, and the original 2 points you earned for answering.
If you delete your own answer, you lose the 2 points you earned for answering.
If you ask a question and Yahoo! deletes it, you lose 10 points for the violation of the TOS.
EDIT: In response to your added details, if a question you have asked or an answer you have given has violated the TOS, Yahoo! will send you an e-mail telling you that you have violated the Terms of Service. At one time they actually gave you the reason for the removal (chatting, not a question or answer, point gaming, etc) but now they simply issue a notice with no explanation.
If another's question is deleted, you will never know this unless you look back through your q&a for the specific question and find it is no longer there. You still won't know for certain whether it was asker deleted or deleted by customer care, but the content of the question may provide a clue as to what happened.
For example, if you answer a question by the WSID?R, you can be assured that you will receive your 2 points, but Customer Care will remove the question.
At one time, when Customer Care deleted a question to which a best answer had been chosen, the person receiving BA would lose their 10 points, and Yahoo! would deduct the answer from the BA total. Yahoo! no longer does this, and for that I am glad. One day I logged on to discover that I was down 80 points and 8 BA's because they had deleted questions to which I had receved BA. However, I never received a violation notice, so my account wasn't in danger of being deleted.
2007-07-13 05:02:46 · answer #1 · answered by iamnoone 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Because the question was deleted for some reason...you still get the points...only the question is gone.
2007-07-13 11:59:27 · answer #2 · answered by Kerilyn 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They get deleted by the moderators, and you lose any points you gain for answering them. Read the ToS and the Community Guidlines for why a question or answer gets deleted.
2007-07-13 11:58:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋
You keep our points, unless your answer was a violation, then you lose 12
2007-07-13 11:58:24 · answer #4 · answered by Weatherman 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
they reincarnate as a troll
2007-07-13 11:58:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 7⤋
It goes straight to hell.
2007-07-13 11:58:01 · answer #6 · answered by Dick Richards 3 · 1⤊ 8⤋