Why doesn't yahoo let you delete questions?
Two reasons. 1. Yahoo went back to the original purpose of YA - to build a database of questions and answers. Deletions defeat that purpose. Yahoo gets paid by activity on YA, so they want to keep it. 2. There was great complaining because users were spending time giving good complete answers, just to have them deleted. Users were starting to think they were wasting their time and started skipping questions or giving short answers. This hurt the people really looking for answers. Most users also do not understand the search engines pick up these questions quickly, so even deletion did not remove posts from the web unless it was done quickly.
How do I recover accidentally deleted 5 month old yahoo mail?
You can restore your mailbox to a previous state from a backup copy, recovering your lost messages whether you accidentally emptied the Trash folder containing an important email To rescue messages that have disappeared from your Yahoo! Mail account during the past 24 hours or undelete messages after you have emptied the Trashfolder:Download all messages received yesterday and today at your Yahoo! Mail or forward them to a different email address automatically or manually.These messages will otherwise be lost forever.Fill out the Yahoo! Mail Restore Help Form (or the Yahoo! Mail Classic Mail Restore Help Form).While you wait for Yahoo! to return your Yahoo! Mail account to the state at the desired time from a backup copy, make sure you continue to forward or download any newly arriving messagess
Why am I unable to post or answer any questions on Yahoo Answers?
Clearly, you have upset a Yahoo! god and they are firing you from Yahoo! Answers.I used to work for Yahoo! Answers a decade ago and I used to spend a lot of time asnwering a lot of questions and the company was extremely happy with my work.In fact, they send me a Yahoo! Answers jacket to my home.I still have it.A few years later I was one of the most popular writers on Yahoo! Answers and the founder and CEO of Yahoo! at the time David Filo himself send me a letter with his signature and everything congratulating me for my hard work.I still have this letter.A decade ago, a letter signed by a billionaire was a huge deal for me.Now, I get job offers from billionaires, almost each month and I almost always decline them.I still want to work for Elon Musk, Adam D’Angelo, Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, Luke Nosek and Ken Howery, thought.One day, all of a sudden my Yahoo! Answers account was blocked for unknown reasons.I tried to open a new account and this worked for a little while but eventually my account was blocked again.I tried to open a new account and this worked again for a little while but eventually my account was blocked again.After that, I simply stopped trying and evolved into something else.I was extremely dissapointed by all this and I could not fully understand why they were blocking my accounts.Obviously I was younger and dumber a decade ago.It turns out a billionaire got upset about some of my answers and he simply bribed Yahoo! and they fired me.I was bringing a lot of eyesballs to Yahoo! Answers a decade ago.I was answering questions for them for free, you know.Maybe Yahoo! would still be profitable today if they hired me as a regular employee back then.We will never know.It appears that you are in exactly the same situation I was a decade ago.Just forget about Yahoo! Answers and focus exclusively on Quora.They are losing money for a reason, you know.I suspect they regret firing me from Yahoo! Answers a decade ago.Ironically, I am currently one of the MOST VIEWED WRITERS on the Yahoo! (Company) category right now here on Quora.Welcome to Quora.I think you will enjoy this chapter in your life.
How do I reset my Yahoo account when I do not have access to my old phone number?
If you haven't given an alternative email, haven't configured security questions, and haven't provided a mobile number that is current, then thats 3 strikes. I can't advise you if you have neither of those 3 safeguards set. Try contacting Yahoo support, but your chances of regaining access don't look good.
How do I make an appeal when my answer was suddenly deleted with no explanation? (There was no Appeal link. I follow Quora rules, and the answer was helpful.)
The question was:How do I make an appeal when my Answer was suddenly deleted with no explanation? (There was no Appeal link. I follow Quora rules, and the answer was helpful.)There should have been a link but you can got to http://help.quora.com and click Contact Us at the top on the right, to begin submitting a message to them.Be sure to include the question for the answer that was deleted.I just finished, I’m mean seconds ago, telling them that what they (human or bot?) considered SPAM was merely a link to the source of some information I quoted.They had sent me a reply to my message to them and I responded telling them that they have real problems when the flag answers like mine.Don’t just take their decision if you think is wrong. Send them a message about it.A long, long time ago, on Yahoo Answers, I answered a question about cats and the questioner demonstrated absolutely blind ignorance and attacked my answer.I replied and made it clear of their ignorance, not worrying about being nice, and Yahoo flagged my answer.I wrote to them and my message began with something like this:“There are times in the process of human communications when one must step over the customary bounds of civility and call a spade a spade. In these instances it is likely the only way to attempt, again, to get your message across…….”I got a reply in a few hours saying my message had been restored.So, go to http://help.quora.com and click Contact Us and send them a message.You can fight City Hall and win - you just have to stand up to them when you know you are right and they are wrong.Good luck.
Why do people prefer Quora over Yahoo! Answers?
Oh boy, this is going to be fun.Q1: Why do we need water to survive?Quora: Our bodies are mostly made of water, so we need to continually replenish our water supply in order to survive.Yahoo! Answers: WE DONT!!! I ACTUALY FOUND A HEALTHY WATER SUBSTITUTE IF U GUYS R INTRESTED!!!!!!!Q2: What is 2+2?Quora: 2+2 is equal to 4. For instance, imagine you had two cookies and your friend gave you two more. How many do you have now? You now have 4 cookies.Yahoo! Answers: 2+2 is an aDITION PROBLOM. your duMb.Q3: Why is the grass green?Quora: Grass and many other plants have a pigment called chlorophyll which absorbs light to be used for photosynthesis. However, green light is the one wavelength in the spectrum that chlorophyll cannot absorb. Therefore, it is reflected back to our eyes, which perceive the grass to be green.Yahoo! Answers: the same reason teh skys blue god made it that way now just be happyBONUS: Yahoo! Answers strikes back!I’ll let you be the judge of why people prefer Quora.
How do I view email older than a few months on Yahoo Mail on my old, slow computer without buying a premium account?
I don’t have a premium Yahoo account, and I have mail that is over 13 years old. I didn’t use Yahoo much after I signed up with Gmail, mainly because of their being hacked so many time, so I had over 50,000 unread messages. I wanted to clean it up so I could use it again.I have Thunderbird for my email client, it works in systems as old as Windows XP SP2. I went into my Yahoo account settings and allowed third party software, put my email and password into Thunderbird, and several hours later I had ALL my mail. It took me about an hour to clean it up, and now I have a nice clean mailbox at Yahoo again. My friend sent me some pictures of my son’s baptism 10 years ago that I thought were lost, but no, they were still sitting there nicely on Yahoo’s servers waiting for me to download them.