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Why are my answers not appearing to other Yahoo Answer users? My comments and questions do, but not my answers. Have I been shadowbanned?
Click on my user profile. Check under "Answers." You can see my answers to different questions there, but if you follow the link to the question page and look for my answer you will not find it. This goes as far back as I can find. *I* can see my answers on the page, but no one else can...it's like they're not there.
Have I been shadowbanned? What rules did I break? Is this because I had to fight to keep my questions in the correct category when Level 7's try to move them out to prevent them from being seen (I'm talking, multiple moves of the same question even after I edit the question to make it clear where I want it)? Is that against the rules, to violate where a Level 7 user puts my questions? Or is it something else?
7 Answers
- DanielLv 73 years ago
Did you use any Links in your Answers ? if so that may have Cause them to be Ghosted and Caused it to be Hidden to Others Remove the Links and it should start showing up again
- LANLv 73 years ago
More than likely you have a stalker the same as me that creates multiple account with no other purpose than to keep reporting your answers. Yahoo doesn't care enough to have any agenda here. They seem to be perfectly happy allowing this site to get as bad as possible.
- Anonymous3 years ago
Never heard of shadowbanned. Ur either banned or ur not. Try the spam filter suggestion. It's worked for me before.
- Anonymous3 years ago
If you were banned, you wouldn't be able to post at all. There is no level of access where yahoo only lets you see your own answers.
No, it's not against the rules to put your question in the correct category. Some Level 7s will move it arbitrarily but just because they have the ability, doesn't mean you would get penalized for moving it back. It used to be a violation to intentionally post in the wrong category, but that was before Level 7s could move questions (question askers had the ability to post in the category they wanted the question in, without Y!A selecting a category automatically for them).
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- Pearl LLv 73 years ago
someone couldve reported your answers and that might be why you cant find them
- Anonymous3 years ago
It's a spam filter when you can see your answer but the person who asked the question can see it. It has happened to me also. What I had to do is reword my answer or remove a link and it posted. You may have to reword it a few times but it will work.
