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Question: UK: What's the cheapest way to attract volunteers to join a charity?

Question Details: charities spend too much on administration and other expenses. that's my reason for not helping out. if charity bosses were to take less wages that would encourage many people like me to join. many charities are corrupt and do not declare the full sales from their charity shops. also managers from local charity shops steal money by not showing full sales figures; this is an epedmic and done widely with full knowledge of charity commision

Deleted Answer: charities spend too much on administration and other expenses. that's my reason for not helping out. if charity bosses were to take less wages that would encourage many people like me to join. many charities are corrupt and do not declare the full sales from their charity shops. also managers from local charity shops steal money by not showing full sales figures; this is an epedmic and done widely with full knowledge of charity commision



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Answer 1

It's not. The system of violations is largely random.

Up in "forums" (upper right, I believe) there's a place where you can challenge this, but from what I hear, there's rarely any action taken.

Answer 2

You said:

"managers from local charity shops steal money by not showing full sales figures; this is an epedmic and done widely with full knowledge of charity commision."

You have alleged a serious crime. While your allegation may or may not be true, this is not the place to make it. You should contact the police if you believe a crime has been committed.

Answer 3

Don't know if it's the reason your Q was deleted, but your details have nothing to do with explaining what you mean or what you've noticed about the cheapest way of attracting volunteers to join a charity. What you've discussed is a completely different issue concerning fraud in charities. Resubmit your question with details relevant to your question and see what happens.

Answer 4

You have to realize that when a question is tagged as "offensive" and sent to Y!, it is sent to a robot program that indiscriminately deletes the answer, deducts points and sends the answerer an email message. It isn't even evaluated by a real person.

That is a flaw in the system. Totally harmless answers and/or opinions are flagged as "questionable" without actually being reviewed.

Such is life my friend.

Answer 5

Offhand, I don't see anything wrong with what was deleted. How can we contact customer care? Send me a private answer with a link to this page. I'll take a look at TOS and see if I can figure it out.

Answer 6

Although it is ridiculously punitive, you really did not answer the question.
Every once in awhile, we have some petty person on this forum that can not see the abstract way in which some of us answer a question. You did answer, but in an abstract way. Not all people comprehend the free thinker.
Sometimes, it is a good idea, to review your answers, and then, if you did not overtly answer the question, tag an obvious straight forward answer to your abstraction.

Answer 7

Somebody is trying to stop letting people know what you already know.
That someone most certainly is a guilty person, and that person reported you.
He is such a cheat hiding behind a fake front. May he rot in ....oops, I'm atheist.

Answer 8

I think that the widespread condemnation and accusation of criminal activity against charities in general could be seen as quite unjustified and certainly libelous if one had been named.

Answer 9

You were flagged by users and it was removed. It looks like a perfectly legitimate answer to me though. Unfortunately it happens, if people simply don't agree with you, they can flag you answer or question, get enough flags and it gets removed. Someone with several accounts could flag you answer several times and it could removed automatically.

Answer 10

It's a pain but if one person does not like what you say and they report you it gets deleted.
It has happened to me and all I said was that people should read their questions carefully before submitting them because a lot do not make sense and I was deleted.