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Amanda C asked in Yahoo ProductsYahoo Answers · 7 years ago

why was my question deleted?

hi i was just trying to figure out why my question was deleted. It was entitled "beginning of story opinion (small part)" then in the additional details box was the first part of my story. so what rule was violated?

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  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cac...

    YA is a forum for asking a knowledge seeking question

    you did not ask a question, nor did you seek knowledge

    tagging a question mark onto the end of a phrase or statement is not a question, therefore your post was a violation for misuse of the question/answer format

    also, as it did not ask for knowledge, it was a violation for chat

    when posting a work of literature that you have written such as an excerpt from a story you wrote or a poem, you have to ask for ways to improve, suggestions for grammar, editing, etc.

    just asking for an opinion is likely to get you reported for chat, thought it is not an chatty as asking someone, What are you doing right now?

    the main violation was the lack of a question

    this would have been acceptable: "What suggestions do you have for ways to improve this part of my short story?"

  • Fox
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    you were not looking for facts or useful information.....just opinions on something nobody but you cares about.

    so it probably got reported as chat or something

    Source(s): read the site guidelines so you actually know what you're doing here
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