Why do some good questions just disappear?

The 97% flagging them of took them down by filibustering them.

@GloPro What category were they in?

I was enjoying the one about giving your girlfriend money earlier today in social. Then poof! Gone.
And I was actually hoping to get a good veggie pallea recipe out of one of HC’s questions in meta.
@Hypocrisy_Central I didn’t see any reason to excessively flag either question, unless it was because the responses weren’t directly answering your question. If that is the case, it’s tricky because it would be in General if it didn’t have to do with Fluther. Oh, well.
I rather like the random offshoot tangents. I’ve stopped following my own question several times because it was just taken over. It doesn’t bother me.

^ My question disappeared because I was not talking about cacti, anything above that seems to be too deep.

Did you request for it to be pulled? Is that how it works?
Talking about jizz is so much more sophisticated than cactus, it’s true.

^ No, some redacted, person flagged it for some dumb reason or it got filibustered to the point it got so heavy it disappeared in the peat mod….I surely did not pull it.

They do not get “filibustered”. Questions are pulled for several reasons, mostly because they do not meet Fluther’s writing standards. When they are pulled they are sent to the original poster for corrections. Once the corrections have been made, the question is resubmitted, and a mod approves it and it is put back up. Since mods are volunteers there is not always guaranteed to be one online so some questions take longer to be approved and get back up.

^^^ Did you used to be a mod?

@FlyingWolf You’ve got it figured out. The question always gets kicked back to the asker and they can decide to abandon it or change it. Although in one of my darker moods I asked a really bad question that the mods were baffled how to handle it and Auggie suggested I ditch it. She was right. It was a bad one.

@Adirondackwannabe Is that the one you dropped the f-bomb in the question itself?

No, if you can believe it the question I asked was darker than the f-bomb one. Much darker.

Sometimes posts are up a while before we see there are errors in them, whether or not they’ve been flagged (but flagging does help bring things to our attention sooner). Once we send them for editing, it may be a while before the OP logs in and sees the edit.

Sometimes the OP elects to abandon the question. Sometimes the edits aren’t adequate to meet guidelines, so the Mods reject the question. I didn’t know that it was a paella recipe that was being discussed until someone else figured it out and posted the correct spelling.

There is no such thing as “filibustering” a post on Fluther.

One of my latest question has been modded too, though there was nothing wrong with it. The reason? I flagged it myself since it seems to me that no one has clearly understood what I was trying to get at. I want to add more details to make it clearer.

I flagged my own question for a typo yesterday and was surprised to see it sitting waiting for editing when I logged on. I thought the mods can fix minor typos now?

@JLeslie Same here.

I was one of the jellies really glad they would fix minor typos when they announced it. I wrote on my flag “please fix you to your.”

No – we do not fix minor typos. We were discussed it as an option and asked the community to give their opinions, but we have decided not to make any changes to the policy at this point in time.

I wish they would change it if the author of the question actually asked for it to be changed. That’s different than other people flagging it and possibly changing a spelling that actually is correct, but the mod was unaware.

@JLeslie That’s different than other people flagging it and possibly changing a spelling that actually is correct, but the mod was unaware.

That’s the reason why I always feel horrible when my English teacher put a new marking policy into use: [your writing mark + your proofreading-for-your-partner-when-you-two-exchange-papers mark/2 =your final mark

Holy shit! What if I overlook some errors? I’m not a proofreading God!

@JLeslie – Some of us do most of our work from mobile devices, and behind-the-scenes editing can not be done from mobile devices because they require access of a different site.

@hearkat I’m not angry about it. If a mod is working from mobile and it can’t be done, then it can’t be done. I gathered from what you said that the policy is still to do no editing? I just think if the OP actually wants to change it, and a mod sees the mistake and agrees with the OP then it should be ok to change. Just my opinion. I feel like that is a specific special case. Just my two cents if the mods ever discuss it again.

My questions vanish all the time. And I wind up being absolutely fascinated in trying to doctor them to acceptability—to a point. The mods have a difficult task, but it’s wonderful discovering just how arbitrary and varied an individual’s take on matters can be.