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Why are good questions being deleted on R&S?

Three of the questions that I've answered on R&S this evening have been deleted for not following community guidelines. All three were perfectly legitimate questions, although in each case something was expressed that someone may have disagreed with. Is some nut going through all the questions and reporting every one that he doesn't like? It seems that YA will automatically delete reported questions. I hope if you are given notice that a question of yours is unacceptable that you will contest it.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Oh, that's that thing I asked about yesterday. you answer a question and click and suddenly you are faced with a page that says the question has been deleted. But you still find that it hasn't been and your answer is there too. just push the back button and go back and back and get out of that area, then find the list of questions it was on again, and the question will still be on the list, and click on it and it will be there not deleted and so will your answer!

    it's a problem glitch. No one said anything about why it's happening, but they don't seem to be stopping it. It happened to me at least once today already.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The person who asks the question can delete it, too. You still see the statement about it not following community guidelines, even though it might not be the case.

  • 1 decade ago

    Yahoo Answers has a terrible system. Only two people need to report a question for any reason and it will be deleted without review or explanation. Then, if you appeal and explain that the question did not violate anything it was reported to have violated, you get a response saying "We have decided not to reinstate your content" without any further explanation. Everybody who works for Yahoo should be ashamed of this nonsense.

    Source(s): THE BIBLE
  • 1 decade ago

    there seems to be a bug right now which shows questions as being deleted , but if you refresh the questions will appear again ... then there is the questions which are actually deleted because someone didn't like something , those questions are deleted because some "trusted" user reported them .

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    yahoo answers is run by fvcking nazis.

    I've had 5 accounts deleted already, with no explanation after asking repeatedly. I wish I knew which rule it was I keep breaking.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Someone is probably going around and reporting them....

  • ?
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Haters gonna hate

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Technical difficulty.

    Reporters.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    It's some kind of glitch. Hit refresh, and the right page will appear.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Some of us are starting to know too much.. :o

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