Suppose you had a violation on YA, and your question and 17 answers were removed.........is it possible to FIND that question and the answers somewhere in the 'guts' of YA???
It is interesting to me how well meaning questions are deleted for seemingly no good reason. What think ye?
2007-10-05 12:09:47 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think there's a Yahoo! database building in my area. Would you like me to go ask them if they have them?
2007-10-05 12:16:52 · answer #1 · answered by YouCannotKnowUnlessUAsk 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, there is NO remnant of that question. The only time a question remains is if you are suspended and there are questions of yours unresolved, open or in archive.
Most questions are deleted because they DO violate the guidelines. I have had a bunch of them that I knew very well would be just a shadow under the fine line...they got pulled, I lost my points and I am back here trying again.
Read the guidelines over and over. Chatting, personal correspondence, incendiary comments, squatting (that is when you hold a place with a period and go back and edit it) answering IDK, because you are not following the format. If you don't know, don't answer. The two points now is not worth the 12 points later when you get a violation for not helping the asker. Don't curse. Don't rant or vent about Yahoo, yo Momma, your job, politics, religion there is no room for ranting because it starts the ranting in your answers. No racial slurs, nothing X-rated. If you wouldn't tell a preacher, don't say it here. There are very young people here and as adults it is OUR duty to protect them. Don't answer trolls, that is exactly what they want. Report them, they are trolls and no matter whether they are 'being nice' it only lasts for a couple of questions. Do not answer, it is considered a violation. Further, even if you know the question is getting pulled that does not give you any more reason or right to be vulgar, childish or more mean.
2007-10-05 12:34:54 · answer #2 · answered by The Y!ABut 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You won't receive a violation notice for this question, but in a few weeks' time it will be deleted. I know because this happened when I asked a question calling all R&S users who'd lost an account. It got me ten stars - a personal best. Damn.
Deletions and violations happen for seemingly trivial things. I answered 'Who dies in the next Harry Potter?' with 'Get a grip.' I think that was a perfectly good answer, but got a violation notice for it. I suppose some little kid somewhere started crying.
2007-10-05 12:30:26 · answer #3 · answered by Citizen Justin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've had well over 100 questions removed, most of them sincere, none of them inflammatory. Hundreds of beautiful answers disappeared along with them.
I'm sure there is a place in the Yahoo! archives for the ghosts of things deleted, but I doubt we will ever find them. Occasionally Yahoo! will reinstate them, so they are obviously somewhere. Maybe the great hard drive in the sky.
Who knows why questions are removed? There's no rhyme nor reason to the Yahoo! logic.
2007-10-05 12:14:28 · answer #4 · answered by iamnoone 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so. I had a question removed regarding the lunar eclipse and could not for the life of me remember what I wrote.
I asked Answers to show me my question and tell me what I did wrong and got a canned answer about guidelines.
2007-10-05 12:34:09 · answer #5 · answered by gabeymac♥ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some human beings will checklist you for giving an answer they disagree with, and others have not have been given any humorousness or can no longer detect sarcasm. occasion : even even with the undeniable fact that "Hitchhiker's handbook to the Galaxy" says otherwise, "40 two" isn't an appropriate answer for some gentle human beings.
2016-10-10 09:21:23 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is rare for a well meaning question to be removed. I have in the past had a question removed and after much pressure to find out why, found out that they thought it was chatting. I think once it has been removed it is gone
2007-10-05 12:25:32 · answer #7 · answered by Pamela V 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Yahoo answers have a box at the top of the page:
see where it says home Forum Blog Help
Inside the Forum is a list of things you can click on
one is "What happened why was my answer deleted, what did i do wrong, help me please.
2007-10-05 12:14:02 · answer #8 · answered by da' boss 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Have you read the Yahoo answers community guidleines?
A lot of people inadvertently violate the guidleines and that's how they get reported.
2007-10-05 12:14:41 · answer #9 · answered by Robin Runesinger 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Aye yahoo moves in mysterious ways.Tis a strange wind that blows through yonder answers me lass.
2007-10-05 12:15:50 · answer #10 · answered by Niamh 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋