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Bramble asked in Yahoo ProductsMy Yahoo · 8 years ago

If I ask questions about Y!A they just disappear. What's the game?

Update:

Disappear? - I mean they never even appear. They are not acknowledged in my activity and never show up anywhere in any shape or form. They instantly disappear

Update 2:

No that wasn't it. There were previuos 2 which provoked the question and then that one came through - spot of sod's law I guess

Update 3:

Strangely I never seem to get glitches in other categories!

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  • 8 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Well, there may be a few reasons:

    • your question was reported as a violation of the guidelines

    Usually, that happens when someone comes to the yahoo products category and writes a rant disguised as a question about being reported or something. it's really hilarious. :D

    • the best answer to your question was reported

    • your question went to voting, and "no best answer" won. you get 5 points returned

    • you got no answers after 4 days, so your question is deleted

    For the first reason, you get -10 points and an email about it. For the latter 3, you are not notified.

    I'm not sure if that's what you meant by disappear, but that's the game i guess!

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    ~edit~

    Oh, that means it must have been filtered out for some reason. They should show up in your activity, but sometimes certain keywords or links hide your question, and they don't show. It may also happen as a result of a glitch.

    Is this it? -

    http://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=201...

    If it was that one, it looks like it is showing up on the main display now. It must have been time delayed or something!

  • Big Mo
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Maybe it is a glitch but it happened to my question about YA also.

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