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wont let me answet yahoo questions?
I try to answer a question and when I hit submit it won't post it?
2 Answers
- ?Lv 76 years ago
There are a few questions being asked about that and it is Friday so may be a glitch as that seems to be when they happen most often. You can try refreshing the page as that may clear it.
Switch to Desktop mode if on Mobile.
A question not posting will happen if you have too many certain characters, the filter will stop it from posting. The % sign is one and needs to be spelled out or a question won't post..
========= If you go over the character limit on a Question or the details the box will be outlined in Red and have a minus # which is how much over the limit you are. You will need to shorten it by that number for it to submit. You have 140 characters for the Question title where it says What's up?. Details character limit is 2500 Desktop. ... 1500 on Mobile.
=======It also happens when you have reached your daily answer or question limit and you will see a Red False on the bottom left corner when you try to submit.
====There is a filter that links & images will stop questions from posting or if they post they are invisible on the site but can be seen on your question list. You will have to remove the link and try adding it on update."
- Son of T3Lv 76 years ago
Several things can happen:
1. If you take too long, you can lose the connection (type outside Yahoo and cut/paste to get around this)
2. You have exceeded your daily limit (does the word false appear?)
3. You exceeded the character limit (is the box red with a negative number?)
4. You have a bad cache file on your system, clean and reboot.
5. Just copy your answer, refresh the page and paste it in again.
6. Certain links will cause problems, post without them and add as updates.
7. Symbols such as % will cause problems on mobiles. Spell it out.
8. On mobiles, try Desktop mode.
Sometimes when that happens, the answer did submit, the problem is the next screen does not come up properly.