What is up with deleted answers?

Yes, "anyone want to get a beer after work?" looks like chatting.

If you had added other things, and phrased it differently, it probably would have been fine -- "Ask your friends or co-workers if they want to go out after work. Volunteering is a great way to meet people".

No, of course that isn't a valid answer. The most important rule on here is to post an answer, not a comment. You're not answering the question, or at least it does not seem like it to others than yourself. You should have included that "you should ask people this question" statement because no one other than yourself is going to make the connection that you want the person to say that.

Frankly, I don't even see how YOU made that connection. :-/

If you had told the person to kill himself, then your account would be suspended.

Edit: Yes, it's enough to report an answer. If a post violates the guidelines, then that is grounds for reporting the content. If you have seen worse things, then report those posts. Other people posting violations that are worse than yours does not make you not guilty.

by itself, your answer, "anyone want to get a beer after work?" appears to be chat, as in you are asking the asker if he wants to get a beer with you after work, as well as answering a question with a question instead of an answer

if you had answered: Go up to your coworkers and ask them if they want to go for a drink after work, then that would have been an answer

there is no way from, "anyone want to get a beer after work?", that anyone could possibly think anything other than that you were chatting and asking a question, not giving an answer

"The appeal link links to customer care email-and asks me who I want to report"

- that is not the standard appeal link but somehow this is what people are getting so you have to put your own sign in ID there, obviously not someone else's (you sign in ID is what you use to sign into YA and it's always in the upper right corner of this page when you hover your mouse over your name next to the Mail icon - it says Signed in as:)

it's a required field so you have to put something in there

telling someone to commit suicide it an extremely serious Terms of Service violation and would get you suspended if someone emailed the Answers Team (I believe in some countries/states, it's a criminal offense as well)

"Update : so that is enough to report an answer? I have seen a lot of terrible things said- I don't think that is one of them"

- sorry but pretty much the #1 rule is : make an attempt to give a meaningful answer

there are thousands of violations being posted every hour and only a handful of users who bother to report and even fewer who can delete what they report so most violations remain on site forever - even if I sat at my PC 24/7, I couldn't make the slightest dent in violations - so have you been reporting those "terrible things"?

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