How is it a question I deleted 3 months ago can get a violation notice today?

Y!A says they deleted it today, but that has to be a lie cause i deleted it 3 months ago. So how can they go back on an already deleted question and give it a violation notice?

Yahzmin ♥♥ 4ever2008-10-29T09:54:00Z

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I've referred your question to the Suggestion Board, where such things need to be reported. I'll let you know if/when I get a response about this. This is definitely odd.

EDIT: Here is what I was told on the Suggs Board by one of the best informed regulars posting there:
"by Koolkat | 29 minutes ago
Hi Yahzmin.
There is growing evidence this week that they are cleaning up all the leftovers from the Two_appeals system. There are many reports of 2 and 3 months old appeals suddenly getting results, both wins and losses, including wins on since-suspended accounts.
There are also reports of VNs for old questions/answers. These are being attributed to trolling or stalking, but could in fact be contemporaneous reports that had been lost in the system. These could also be from accounts that have since been suspended for other reasons.

This cleanup of old lost items could account for what you are describing.....items reported by a user with insufficient TR to remove immediately are stored somewhere, awaiting the extra report that tips it over into removal. Every now and then they clear this queue by a staff review (these end up with the "removed by community" type VNs).
A report could have been waiting for days or weeks before such a review. The asker could have had second thoughts meanwhile and deleted the Q themselves. Some claim to habitually delete once they get a few answers, on a "just in case" basis. "
http://suggestions.yahoo.com/detail/?prop=answers&fid=117938

Me, Myself and I %(©¿©)%2008-10-29T20:35:27Z

I just received a message in my inbox saying my appeal was approved for a question they deleted that I asked over a month ago & they reinstated it, which I was happy about, but maybe they were backed up & just started working on questions that were deleted & are now just catching up.

Anonymous2008-10-29T20:19:23Z

Now that is a puzzle that would baffle Sherlock Holmes himself, how can even a troll read a Q and report it if as you say you deleted it?

Try Yahoo's Customer(ahem) Care maybe they can shed some light.

Good luck

Elric

Anonymous2008-10-29T16:35:47Z

Well, I deleted a few questions I'd asked just because they only had one or two answers, and then this morning I get emails saying the community chose best answers for them.

Bah.

♥♥Hotlips4000♥♥2008-10-29T20:33:50Z

I've had a similar thing happening to me yesterday.

I appealed for one of my questions being deleted 4months ago and i have only just got the reply back!

(It's been re-instated now.!)

They must be,tackling the backlog of work that they should of done ages ago!

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