My poem WORDS was deleted. How can I discover why?

I take it that you didn't receive any Violation Notice!

Never mind! Here's where you can contest the violation:

Go to Suggestion Board > Appeal violations (down, right-hand side)

The first time is always shocking...more so if we haven't really violated any guidelines. You really feel like you've been slapped for no fault of yours.

Here's hoping you'll get justice :)

Don't bother to find any reasons for it, <tori>, your answers or questions may be deleted for some reasons God knows. Also don't bother too much on how to pose your question in a way that won't "break the Yahoo rules" because there are thousands of interpretations for a rule. Just feel that it is a bad luck and let it pass. I hope you have a copy of the poem. Accept it as part of the game. Try henceforth pose your question in a more acceptable way according to the "rules". How do you feel about my new poem draft? or, Can my new poem be better? Will you comment on my new poem?

Thank you especially for the poem "She", that was very kind of you. Be happy!

I would say it most likely was simply dropped out of the database. If your points were not affected I would think it unlikely there were any violations involved. Yahoo has messed up its programs and database at times, and it sounds more like an accident than a violation.

I have answered questions, gotten points, and then seen the questions deleted, no reason given. And I would not have considered the questions as being in violation of community standards or anything else. And I kept the points. Odd. I don't know what to tell you, but it sounds accidental rather than intentional.

If all you posted was a "rate this" question, that is a violation of the rules. It would have been reported by several users and removed. Any rating question is a violation of the rules here. For poetry, you can ask specific fact seeking questions, but anything where "it stinks" is a possible answer is a violation. For example, "How can I fix the rhyming scheme in lines 10-12?" is a good question. "What is a better word instead of "confusion" in line 22?" is a good question.

If your 'question' (which actually was not a question, but rather a request for a 'C & C', I'd guess) was reported/deleted, you SHOULD have received a 'report notice' or 'violation notice' in your email. I say 'SHOULD' because the Y!A email notifications are not working as they should be at the moment.

You're not going to like this, but to be honest, all I see in your profile is 'chat/rate/solicitation'. Not actual questions. You ask others to comment on and critique your poems, which is no different from posting a picture of yourself and asking others to comment on or rate your appearance, or posting a description of yourself and asking if others would find you attractive. Asking others to DO anything (comment, critique, etc.) is solicitation, for which a user can be reported.

It may be (as already mentioned) that the BA for your 'question' was reported/deleted, in which case the question is deleted as well.

Well, if the Best Answer is deleted then the question will just disappear but you will not get notice or lose points. Ask whoever you gave BA to if they got a violation notice.

Hi Tori I've had a poem reported and deleted when I've been away on a short brake'' who'll be so sad to do this I don't know .. I love your poetry :)

You can appeal it and they will give you the reason but deleting a poem in the poetry section is stupid. YA makes me sick some days. I hope it gets re-instated my friend.

Hi. Tori, this had happened to me twice, i followed the Communite guide lines and rules, and my questions were still reported for no good reasons, I appeall and send an email to Yahoo, it took a month for them to fix it i got my points back, and the same thing like you, I had chosen best answer , some one did this on purpose, because of some of the responses i received from 2 contacts.

Mornin Tori.

I may have had that happen? but had two deleted recently and appealed, (a mistake) but the message is a scripted, standard answer about guide lines and terms of service. Community,,, not a report from an individual deleted my questions.

What I find odd most often is that while computer generated, often randomly chosen, the subject line was the same as usual, I post a title, will you comment please? (puntuation denotes the subject line as a question. The alert states it must be offered in the form of a question the community can answer, and offer an resolution of sorts in the piece???

I've posted the same way nearly 3 years and wonder, if by that logic, why haven't all my posts been deleted???

Will you comment and or critique this poem? Might go unnoticed? Certainly in the body of the submission you can begin by asking another question suggesting detail or corrections/suggestions, then post the poem. I'm pretty sure you are aware of some facts about solicitation, insults, not sure about the 'rate this" which happens a hundred times a day in YAP, but it is a category, targeted for sure.

It seems that vulgarity, expletives used substituting an * or a $ sign in some words, can slip by? You've never posted anything offensive, and others, very often, quite valid poets here, have questions deleted all the time?

One who posts here, has stated, re-posting, which I have done in the past, perhaps wording the question in a way that more conforms to what Y/A dictates and accepts, but even that seems, may not be a guarantee of success. Do you save before posting, your poems in a file, perhaps not connected with Y/A, or your e mail account in Yahoo? I do.

It is a challenging, confusing situation, but don't be dismayed or give up easily. We love your sharing.