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

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&...

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.

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

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.

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!

Apparently there is something strange going on with Yahoo Answers. I've seen so many questions like yours today. Must be some kind of weird glitch.

Same damned thing happened to me today !

I think the PCers had nothing to do are going through all of the old questions !

Because it's broken!

I deleted my own question yesterday (it had to many misspellings so I redid it) and people are still replying to both today.

they have been on a Coffee break and are just now getting up to speed

Yazmins right' its all on records''??