Why do people delete questions from the politics section?

Because their a bunch of cry babies and yes they should ban deleting.

Bob I think there is confusion, in answers to your question, between questions that get deleted by the person who asked the question and questions that get deleted because the questioner has, in some nerd's opinion, violated community guidelines.

I totally agree with those who advocate that a question should never be deleted just because somebody has reported it. But if somebody who asks a question discovers they have made an idiot of themselves by asking it, then perhaps it is right for them to have the option of deleting it

I think by far the most idiotic rule in the "community guidelines" is the contention that a question or answer can be deleted if somebody claims "insulting other yahoo users". The plain fact is nearly every question and every answer that has ever appeared in YA could be contended by somebody or other to be insulting other yahoo users.

For example we get hundreds of questions every week making disparaging remarks about the likes of Gordon Brown or Lord Mandelson or David Cameron or Barrack Obama, every one of whom could well be a member of the Yahoo community? Anybody opposing such criticism could also be deemed to be insulting the questioner. So every single question criticising any of them or criticising anybody defendiong any of them could it seems be deleted for violating community guidelines? Does that make sense?

they don't want the truth or free thought, let alone opinion to get out there. After all liars need the truth suppressed and those legitimately asking questions must be suppressed.

Try and find a question that's not being deleted that's on the same wave lengh and put your response in there. Like i do with this video clip which I put up as a question only for it to be pulled down within minutes.

They do it in order to escape/avoid aversives (any form of mental- and/or physical pain).

The psychological term is negative reinforcement.

That's just part of natural characteristics of any thinking creature with a brain (animals/humans).

Other examples:

Jane Doe has a headache. She takes a a pain killer. Consequence is that the pain goes away.

Her behaviour (in this case taking the painkiller) is much more likely to occur again, under similar circumstances in future.

We say, the behaviour of taking pain killers is negatively reinforced.

John Doe is in the garden cutting some tree branches. One of the branches falls on his foot and the weight of this branch pressing on his foot causes pain. He lifts/rolls the branch off of his foot to escape the pain.

That behaviour (lifting/rolling) is negatively reinforced and it's very likely he'll do it again in future (under similar circumstances).

Matthew Doe writes something and posts it on the internet for the whole world to see. Consequences are, a lot of reactions that *he perceives* as (mentally) painful. He deletes this post and it's no longer there for the whole world to see. Consequences of deleting the post are that the 'painful' reactions stop.

i will never delete a question if it has facts but hey i never snitched on anyone in my life either. mussolini was a fascist liberalism and conservatism are different arms of the same creature thats what you dont get leftist push legislation to limit behavior and social standards dui laws ciggarette laws free speech laws but they push it through medical or litigal means such as race bating to opress free speech. conservatism push laws on free speech through god and fear both sides push wars and are run by the same people. fascism is very simply put government ran by corporations and they benefit from both sides the banks who controll the money own the insurance companies and industries that produce guns so they benefit from restrictive laws in health and litigation but also benefit from wars.. PAY ATTENTION they keep us fighting to run off with all the money and not be noticed. hitler got his ideas from american upper class eugenics families who have had the practice of selective breeding for centuries.

I asked one of those people that same question awhile back. He couldn't give me any answer other than "Just because". My guess is, that they either don't want someone to gain the 10 points for a best answer, or they finally got embarrassed enough to withdraw the question.

When they violate the community guidelines.

There are tons of times when someone just gets on a soapbox but doesn't ask a question. Or they insult people. That's not helpful and is a violation of the rules people agree to when they join this site.

Don't you know that people report questions here?

*edit* Fair questions get deleted all of teh time. If you report one, they delete it. They do not check or read it. It's one of Yahoo's flaws. One of MANY.

They delete from any section any opinion that does not suit them.

quite right bob,