what is the question and answer format?

Your answer was not an answer; it was a chastiment to the asker telling him/her, basically, to do their own homework. Answers MUST make a sincere effort to answer the question. If you don't want to give out homework help, find other questions to answer; don't just snipe at the person for not doing it themselves, no matter how politely you word it.

Specifically, the Q&A format means:

Questions must ask a 'real' question.

Answers must give a 'real', helpful answer.

Firstly, the Community Guidelines states that a question must be written in the form of a question and not a statement or a rant. The rules also say there always must be an attempt to answer a a question that is being asked.

Secondly, your answer was deleted because you failed to properly answer another user's question. Remember there always must, and I emphasize must, be an attempt to answer a question that is being asked by other users. You failed to do so in this case.

What you should have done was just skip that question and move onto another one where you can easily answer it. It's the only way you could have avoided the violation and the loss of 12 points in the process. If you're contemplating an appeal, forget about it. Customer Care will uphold the violation and assess 10 points from your score. Please consider reading the rules and sticking to them to avoid incurring more violations in the future.

Question And Answer Format

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Don't like, it confuses me. Because it's all narrow, instead of being all long. I am sooo resistant to change, LOL. Oh, oh, I know: a CURRY! And a HOCK! That's what you were looking for, right? ;)

Rule is a question must seek facts or advice beneficial to all.

An answer must supply the facts or advice sought.

Your comment was not an answer

Sorry Captain Bill, we all get frustrated from time to time, I guess the recipient of your advice took offence and pushed the report abuse button.

Happens to all of us if we are here long enough................

Cheer up, it must have stung a little, or you would not have been zapped in the first place. :)