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why did yahooanswers delete my question "why am i so handsome"?
i put it and then it got deleted
7 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Yahoo! Answers is a question-and-answer community of people sharing knowledge. We provide a couple of different ways for members to connect with one another, including email, instant message, and a comments area, so chatting in questions and answers is not allowed. When people use Answers to chat with each other, it lowers the quality of the site and inhibits knowledge-sharing.
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.
Here are a few examples of what we consider chatting:
How (are you, old are you, was your day, is everyone today)?
What are you/What am I (doing, thinking of, wearing, etc.)?
Guess my/Can you guess my/What's your (name, age, sex, weight, birthday, location, etc.)?
Who is from…/Who plays …here/Who wants to chat
Do you like my (avatar, web site, poem, etc.)?*
Who wants to celebrate my birthday, drivers license, first 100 points, level 7?
Where is user (nickname) gone?
Avatar games and games of any nature
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?"
- 1 decade ago
Y!A is a site that supports the search for knowledge. Your question was "chat" which is against the Y!A Community Guidelines. Perhaps you need to read them. Go to the YA help section and read all about it.
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- TrevgauntletLv 41 decade ago
Putting questions as stupid as that is the reason why people report it as abuse, I'll go with the first guy that said it was reported as a chat. Since this is a website community where some people, who posts good, intelligent, or plain questions about things that deserve answers.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
It could also be called soliciting, as you are asking for praise instead of a solution to a problem. You also have the hide of an elephant for asking such a Q,lol, you sound exactly like my younger son!
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
Read that question. Is it acceptable for Yahoo Answers? Think about that.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Probably, someone reported it, as a "chat" not a real question.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Because some hater reported your question as "abuse." Yes, ridiculous isn't it?
They probably reported it as chat or something, because it doesn't sound like your question violates any rules or guidelines.