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I found this interesting tidbit in my mailbox:
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Hello doug_donaghue (doug_donaghue)

You have posted content to Yahoo! Answers in violation of our Community Guidelines or Terms of Service. As a result, your content has been deleted. Community Guidelines help to keep Yahoo! Answers a safe and useful community, so we appreciate your consideration of its rules.

Question: 12.You are traveling through a galaxy in a futuristic spaceship?

Question Details: 12.You are traveling through a galaxy in a futuristic spaceship. The galaxy is made almost completely of a gas and young blue stars. And it has no definite shape. You are traveling through a ____? A. elliptical galaxy B. dwarf galaxy c. irregular galaxy d. spiral galaxy 

Deleted Answer: B. Doug

Violation Reason:Community Guidelines and/or Terms Of Service Violation



If you feel this content was removed in error, please read the Community Guidelines and make sure that this content: 1. respects the question-answer format and is not chatty or personal communication; 2. does not contain non-relevant links to external sites or other questions and does not promote your own blog or website; 3. is respectful to other people and does not offend other community members. If you still believe this content has been removed in error, please contact Customer Care and tell us why.

Regards,
Yahoo! Customer Care 
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I don't know which is funnier, the fact that you can't seem to track down one moron with a pile of sock-puppet accounts, or that you have cancelled several top contributors accounts because of this bonehead.

Son of T3 · Accepted Answer

"I  answered with one of the possible answers given by the asker. No more, no less."

Well actually, answer B was "B. dwarf galaxy", not "B. Doug".  The reporter probably did what I did and thought you were attempting humor.  You can probably appeal this one, but it can be a violation to sign your answers (people have used it for gaming).  Most people never look at avatar names and when this goes to voting, any voter will see the answer as "B. Doug" since your avatar name will not appear.  I'm taking it as a misunderstanding, but it is an example of what you get if you don't give detailed answers.

Anonymous · Answer

Someone probably reported it because it really isn't a question and/or fill in the blanks type questions are not allowed.  Where you have "Question:" you made a statement of fact... didn't ask a question.  And in the additional information, you left a line/blank to fill in... didn't actually ask a question.  It's mentioned here:

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/answers/abuse/guidelines-04.html

MathTutor · Answer

Honey, read the guidelines, they explain you EVERYTHING.  i really don't get why you don't understand, it's all pretty clear!

Ana

EDIT

It wasn't Doug's question.  His REPLY was deleted, not his question.

The Cat · Answer

It was most likely deleted because it was in a form of a chat.

Try revising the question.

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