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Why would your best answer be deleted because of your source?

Can it be justified for your legitimate answers to be deleted en bloc because your source is said to be irrelevant when in fact it contains multiple links with relevant info?

4 Answers

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  • 8 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Possibly reporters considered it as spam.

  • Erik
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Yes. Adding a generic link to your personal website is justification for removal, especially if you admit the content in that link is not relevant. Post the real links that actually lead directly to the supporting information.

  • Gone
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Sounds like spam.

    OK I took a look..for FIVE years you have been spamming this site, your every answer, with links to some website (very similar to your username, I might add). You are posting answers and adding your spam to attempt to convert users to your way of thinking, not to clarify or add to your answer. Here is what I cannot figure out:

    1, how you got away with it this long.

    2, why you would draw attention to yourself, as if you had been done wrong.

    3, why on earth your account has not been suspended.

    4, whether your account has been sent to staff for review, or whether some users just started (finally) reporting your spam BAs.

    A 5 year long history of posting spam on every single answer..that is why.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Your sources must be mistaken as SPAM.

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