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Where did my questions disappear to?
A few days ago I went to Recommended Questions by mistake and was very alarmed to find only two pages of questions, because I didn't realize I was in the Recommended Questions tab. (Maybe the tab should be real big so I could see it better?) Then I asked two questions to Yahoo Products - Answers about why I only had two pages of questions (dumb, right? But something else weird had just happened, so I was confused!) Then under My Activity in My Questions, the questions never appeared, or immediately disappeared!
Why did the two questions disappear!
To illustrate the depth of the question, here are some hypotheses I've formed in attempting to explain it:
Did the Yahoo software automatically detect that I was being dumb? Did it just put me into a secret category of ppl who ask silly trollish questions to the Products forum? Is the Products forum secret for people? Did Yahoo quit reading it? Was there an error on the server farm? Did I just miss the last step of submitting it after I wrote it and chose the category and previewed it? Did it look like I have a lot of punctuation?
P.S.
Now I like the Recommended Questions part OK and it loves to give me some Statistics questions to answer (about the normal distribution and Ho and μ and μ0), and I seem to know the answers to those ok, and I can even explain them (though I am sure I will get tired of it if I do it over and over again, but at least I answered a few.)
1 Answer
- Yahzmin ♥♥ 4everLv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
If the questions did NOT show up under "My Activity", they never processed through completely. This might have been due to a glitch or because you did not complete the process with the final SUBMIT button. It can happen, especially if you are on a mobile device. There is no software out there that can screen questions for level of 'dumbness'. If there was, this site would be virtually deserted, wouldn't it?
If the questions DID show up under "My Activity", they processed through, but might not have shown up on the site. This can happen due to either language or links, normally.
Since your activity is set to private, I can't check to see if the questions really are in your list, sorry.
