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Why are my questions' words gray in yahoo, and why can't I click on them?
I could use a little help. I can see that neither of these questions have been answered. Is that why?
2 Answers
- Anonymous7 years agoFavorite Answer
Grayed out questions in your list mean that they have been deleted for whatever reason, but they remain in your list - just not clickable. It can have several reasons why questions get deleted, in your case it most likely happened because you didn't get any answers during the answering period of 7 days, but it also happens when the BA for a resolved question gets reported for violating YA rules - if there are no other answers, the question itself will also get deleted.
- Ed AtunLv 77 years ago
The "gray" is your warning that you won't be able to see them when you click on them. Usually they will disappear after a while. Sometimes they were caught in a "filter" by Yahoo. There is a filter that puts asterisks in the place of a swear word. Other filters are for spam. Others were reported by someone who saw the question. If the reporter was wrong, it will be reinstated and not gray.
