How was this considered "Insulting other members"?

Hmmm.

As long as you didn't add any insults in your Additional Details, then it's a bogus violation. (Someone was offended, which is an abuse of the Report System.)

Appeal it.

That way, not only can you get it reinstated and your points returned, but whoever reported you will lost status in the report system.

(Read the Guidelines, and follow the link to read about the report system. Oh, and go to the Forum, and take the quiz on the Guidelines; there you'll see that disapproving of a question or answer is NOT a valid reason to report it.)

Well Greta, I am sure that some things offend some people, and others they aren't offended by it. Each person is different. And I will admit that I too have had questions reported for violation, and deleted, and that costs you even more point, 10, and then I believe that it is 2 more points for deleting the question. I didn't see the question, the first time when you claim to posted it, I saw that you posted it yesterday, and I am not offended, and I took the time to answer the question. And plus may I add, that is the weekend, and I don't know as far as the modators' hours (if any) on the weekends. Or maybe the people that reported your answer haven't noticed that you re-posted it, or figured that you will stop asking it. I am not on the moderators of Yahoo Answers, so I can't tell you exactly how they considered it "Insulting other members". But I am sure that some people would have had to report your question, and even explained why they believed that it should be deleted, and they checked into it, and agreed with them. Plus when you ask a question, you don't know how people will re-act to it, nor do you know who reported it to Yahoo Answers, in less they tell you, and Yahoo Answers doesn't tell you, and I doubt they even would if you asked them.

I don't see anything insulting. I got reported once and never got a good explanation cept I didn't answer the question. I reported someone who was insulting others on this board and others in real life (politics) and nothing was ever done. In the country section a lot of the top contributers have been reported for answering questions, yet there are some trolls on there which ask the same question over and over, sometimes taking up a whole page at a time and nothing gets done about them. the problem is Y!A doesn't care.

you should not judge anyone on how they belief but even more important never say anything insulting toward god / nothing at all about god unless it is good because many Christan's takes this to heart because some of us believe it is a horrible sin you can never be forgiven for telling us there is no god is the same thing we know there is because we have something that non -religous people don't ...when they say prove it then we try many things or scriptures to do just that but honestly i don't think words ever prove any thing but we know they don't understand how we know because they never felt it or seen the truth- called blasphemy against god --- and we don't want to see any soul lost and many will jump up to defend god and many will also try to reticule you while others my try to push religion on you and try to redeem you....myself i hope i am wise enough to do nothing but pray for you.

With every free service, there is a downside. Yahoo is always deleting things for stupid reasons, or no reason at all. I recieved a violation two days ago and appealed. That is what I suggest you do. Good luck!

Usually when we see these, it is because you added something in the added details, such as "You must be ignorant to watch it". If you did, let us know what it was, but anything that could be construed as insulting , such as "Only good for trailer trash" will get you violated.

I have no idea how the hell is that considered insulting other members. Bullcrap like this is one of the reasons why i been coming less here now. I hope that Yahoo is eventually taken over by Microsoft. Hopefully they will know the difference between a real question & a real violation.

probably a couple of things. too many kids on YA, i thought you had to be a certain age to use this but, no one is tracking it. i also read your name on a "who do you dislike most" question in the baseball section. so you, like many of us have an anti-fan base.

instead of deleting every stinking question & or answer that gets "reported" they should have to look into them 1st & they don't. from what i understand it takes 2 "reports" to have a question or answer removed. you can appeal but, it takes forever & for the most part they reply w/ a generic e-mail w/ links to TOS that won't explain why YOUR question was removed. then they may come back & say it was ok OR another generic e-mail saying "yeah we looked into it & it was a violation BUT, they still won't explain why.

the guy above me is a reporter. trust me.

... Maybe the YA people felt offended because they lack the mental capacity to play or understand poker... Or poker is their favorite "sport".

Maybe people absolutely LOVE watching poker on ESPN and believe you are insulting them. I don't get it. HOW IS THAT INSULTING OTHER MEMBERS??? THAT IS STUPID!