What is the difference...?

These are the facts that I have gathered from the Yahoo Answers Help section of this site.

"Community moderation empowers reliable Answers users to help remove inappropriate questions & answers. Members of the community who reliably identify and report questions and answers will have more influence than others. If a question or answer is reported by one or more reliable users, it will be removed."

"Yahoo! determines that your content is in violation of the Yahoo! Answers Community Guidelines or the Yahoo! Terms of Service

The community determines that your content is in violation of the Yahoo! Answers Community Guidelines or the Yahoo! Terms of Service

Your question expired with no answers

Your question went to voting and the community decided there were no best answers

You deleted the question or answer yourself

The best answer to your question was removed by Yahoo! or the community (when a best answer is removed, the associated question is automatically removed)

When a question is deleted, all associated answers, including the best answer, are deleted as well."

"Yahoo! Answers is not meant to be about gaming or playing a game, it is about sharing knowledge with other Yahoo! users across the world and, for this reason, questions involving gaming are not allowed."

"We also consider questions that call out other users by name to be chatting. If the intent is to ask a follow-up question in response to someone else’s question and that person is not available via email or IM, post a new question that’s open to everyone in the community to answer – there might be someone else who’s better equipped to answer it.

* Please note that exceptions to this rule would have to satisfy two criteria: The question would have to be 1) advice-seeking and 2) knowledge-worthy. For example, it would be OK to ask, "How can I improve my poem?" or "How do I make my avatar look more attractive?" "

I hope this helped its the best that I can come up with to answer your question thouroghly.

There is no difference--someone just turned you in! The same thing just happened to me yesterday and my question was deleted after being there for 9 hours!!! Don't take offense to it--i think people are just bored and report other people. I think they should get a penalty for doing such a thing! Look up the rules it is probably the same thing that happened to me, it's called "chatting" your not allowed to ask a DIRECT question??? my question was "who is your favorite NHL team" that was deleted.

Hope this helped

You was just unlucky as some people don't always bother to report questions but in your case they did. It's not fair I know but that is just the way it is sometimes, you just had some meanies who spotted your question. They saw it as solicitation.

There's isn't much difference, but Yahoo! Answers gets a *lot* of questions - its probable that the first one wasn't spotted.

"Does anyone have any pokemon to trade?". you are saying that you have some and you would be willing to give some but get some.

"Does anyone have any pokemon to trade?". you are just giving them away!

you were asking they were giving.