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Why Did my Question Disappear?

Asked by confuzzlement (274points) August 2nd, 2011

what happened to the question i just asked?

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rebbel's avatar

I am reading it now, aren’t I?
And answering it.

tranquilsea's avatar

Sent to the mods for editing perhaps?

augustlan's avatar

[mod says] Hi there, @confuzzlement, and welcome to Fluther! Your question has been returned to you for editing. It had some typos, and the title wasn’t very clear. If you need some help with fixing it up, please feel free to send me a PM (private message) by clicking on my avatar to go to my profile page, then clicking on the ‘message’ button. I’ll be happy to help!

confuzzlement's avatar

Ohh, thats what that was. i got out of the editing thing by accident.

JilltheTooth's avatar

@confuzzlement , Heed the nice lady up there, @augustlan is our Fluther Mom…

confuzzlement's avatar

Good to know! thanks.
but I think its too late for my question. :( Cause I got out of that editing thing by accident.

augustlan's avatar

You should have it back in editing, now. Just a tip… we have pretty high writing standards here, so proper spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and spacing are important.

confuzzlement's avatar

Yeah, I noticed, thanks. What’s up with that?
What if your dyslexic, or never learned to write properly, and you need to ask a question? Thanks for the help though.

confuzzlement's avatar

Sorry, Where’s editing?

confuzzlement's avatar

I got it, thanks.

JilltheTooth's avatar

Now I can’t wait to see what the question is!

Hibernate's avatar

Welcome around. Things aren’t that strict if you give it some try to make it work.

Most of the site is self explanatory you’ll just need to get used to it.

chyna's avatar

Hi @confuzzlement! Welcome. This is a pretty good place to come to and ask questions, so don’t get discouraged. We do have rules and once you are here awhile, you’ll understand them and really will come to appreciate them. We are eager to answer your questions!

augustlan's avatar

@confuzzlement We understand that it can be tough, and a typo here and there isn’t any big deal. We all make them! If you use a modern browser like Firefox or Chrome, they have spell checkers that you can enable. That helps a ton. If not, you can type out what you plan to write in your word processing program or in an email, and use the spell checkers there. Then just copy and paste it here.

JilltheTooth's avatar

Is it up yet? I wanna see! I wanna see!

josie's avatar

Probably for typos or whatever.
But I have had a couple of questions disappear, and I have a sneaking suspicion that it had to do with content.
There are lots of questions with typos, too many words and crummy syntax that do not disappear.
Could be wrong, I suppose, but I would need to be convinced. Plus, I think it was the same Mod.

augustlan's avatar

@josie We hardly ever remove a question due to its content. How that content is presented, though, is another story.

josie's avatar

@augustlan Couldn’t have made the point better.

augustlan's avatar

@josie I’m not sure I understand what you mean. So I’ll tell you what I mean. If it’s presented in a poorly spelled, hard to understand manner, it might not fly (writing standards). If it’s presented as a statement, rather than an actual question, and is more suitable for a blog post, it might not fly (no question in your question). If it’s presented in a purely inflammatory way, it might not fly (flame-bait).

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