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When will unresolved questions be deleted if they will at all?
I'm getting reminders now about choosing best answers for several of my questions. It still has the same message about going into voting. Then it adds...
"If neither you nor the Answers Community chooses a best answer, your question will expire and will be be deleted."
Will it still be deleted in spite of not going into voting anymore? The thing is, I used to extend all of my expiration dates to 7 or 8 days, but now it sends me these notices after only 3 days. Frankly, I'd like them to stop bugging me. After all, they have a contest going on, who will get the most responses in a week of questions starting with "When..." So, I'd like to wait until my week is up. Besides, if I'm not really late after 3 days, why imply that I'm some kind of deadbeat?
On one of my recent questions, I waited 3 weeks before adding my final comments & selecting a best answer. I was afraid that after a month, they might delete it along with everyone's very excellent answers. So, I jumped in last night & took care of it in a grand flurry of activity. I wondered though, does anyone see any rules on this or not?
So, is it now a matter of "Worry no more"? with no final deletion dates? Gratefully, I haven't rec'd any second notices, but who knows exactly how it's going to work? Does it say anywhere?
Looks like everyone here has the right idea. Thanks to all for helping me out of this mental dilemma. Thanks especially to June who got the hang of it so quickly for a relatively new user.
3 Answers
- Anonymous7 years agoFavorite Answer
voting was eliminated quite some time ago
that message you are getting has not been updated which is very poor of Yahoo - there is no excuse for sending out email reminders to pick a Best Answer and then include a redundant message that if you don't, it goes to vote, etc.
and what's even more ridiculous is this part:
"If neither you nor the Answers Community chooses a best answer, your question will expire and will be be deleted."
because that was NEVER an option - in the old format, if you didn't chose a BA and no one voted it did NOT get deleted, it just remained in Tiebreaker mode
the only way it would have been deleted is if No Best Answer was the majority vote and that's not an option any more
you cannot delete a question once it has just one answer and even after you choose a BA, people can still add an answer
you do not have to ever choose a BA though those of us who answer would prefer people did - you have forever to chose a BA - so don't panic and think Y is going to delete your Qs just because you have not chosen an answer
the only way they will delete your Q is if it have not received any answers after seven days
not likely to happen but one more thing - if all the answers you get to your Q are deleted either because the answerers self-deleted or they were reported, the deletion X will appear again and you once again have the option to delete the Q AND if after all the answers are gone you don't get any new ones for the next seven days, it will be automatically deleted
- Chetak.Lv 77 years ago
I think you are just going to get used to the new system and learn about it as it ages, but to me it sounds like until you pic a BA it will be open for ever.
In a way it is what people like you talk about what happens to your accounts the TC's can form their impression of how the system is working
Chetak
- LadyLv 77 years ago
The community can no longer vote for unresolved questions sadly. Yahoo decides how long they remain unresolved.
