Has this happened to you? Top Contributors....?

why is this under tattoos? lol

I think this is very strange that it happened to you since you're on Level 6. I know that a while ago Yahoo Answers changed their rules so that Level 1 users could not include links in their answers. They wouldn't get the Error 999 message though, what they done was even worse. They would just mess up the links without saying anything. So for example If I included this link in my answer.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updat...

They would of done something like this to it, making it impossible to be used now.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updat...

But then a little while after that they changed the rules again and if any level 1 user tried to include a link in their answer they would get the Error 999 message. I think this is quite silly, but it doesn't affect me though because I know how to avoid the error 999 message.

If I wanted to include a link like this in my answer.

http://tinypic.com/

I would change it to this.

http://tiny---pic.com/

Then I would say something like this in my answer. The link above shouldn't have 3 dashes in the middle, I only put it there because Yahoo Answers wouldn't allow me to include the link in my answer. Please remove the 3 dashes to use the link.

Hope this helps.

Their are two reasons why that may be happening. One the person is on level one and links do not work for them and it also counts on how they type the link in.

It's kind of interesting. A lot of times, if I post an answer that's within guidelines, but it's an answer that's too contravesial, it seems as if those are the times I get "Y!A is unavailable at this time", so I go back and reword it, hit 'submit', and it goes right through. I do, I do, I DO believe in spooks!

nope and na.