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BlastedRemnants

Not me, did you check where you last saw them? Or maybe the first drawer to the right of the fridge?

No? How about on top of the fridge then? Maybe in the basement?

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BlastedRemnants
Haha two reds? Okay then, maybe they're under the stairs, or in your car, maybe your kids stole them out of your purse.
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It appears that what I lost was a bunch of answers and comments. The question is still there but everything beyond is blank. I'm sure I lost all my red thumbs and i'm trying to stay ahead of Dozy!
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I gave you a greenie for a little balance. I hope ASK gets it together soon. I need a little stability in my life somewhere.
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VirginiaL
Green from me...if I ever lose my Q & A's, I am definitely coming to you for help!
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I've lost answers and comments from 21 questions beginning near Dozy's complaint a few days ago. Just Q's at random, no pattern. I'm sure I lost some good red thumbs!
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BlastedRemnants
Lol thanks Virg. I've got a feeling I'll be missing an answer pretty soon, lol. Not this one, but I just went off on some poor schmuck who asked a silly question with no details to help it make sense. Ah well, lol.
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Okay, think I will go to your profile and see if I can find it...
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BR, I received the following email from AmericanEmpire last night. He asked me to pass it on to you.

QUOTE Just figured I'd let somebody know. I couldn't take it anymore. I log on this evening, and now it's gonna say "New Question" all the time?!?! They need to get their heads outta their asses over at Ask.com. So, I have deleted my account. Oh well, it was kind of a time sink, anyway. Let Blasted and Virginia and sasquatch and dross and everybody else I'm forgetting know I said, "Bye." UNQUOTE

It's a shame to lose somebody that talented but I understand his frustration.
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Gipsy, The good news is that even if a question (or answer) is deleted (whether by accident, by the mods -- or accidentally by the mods ;-)) you still get to keep any reddies you earn.

Unless of course our reddies get lost with all the other stuff they foul yup.
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BlastedRemnants
Oh no, AmericanEmpire wrote that email? That really is unfortunate. Hopefully they come back someday, maybe they are just frustrated for now. That's too bad though, hopefully they do return eventually.
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I've been doing a bit of a walkabout myself but I didn't find anything that really compared with the fun and excitement I have here. I'm counting on ASK getting its act together soon and continuing to improve into the future. Please dont let me down.
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saywhatnow

Yes i have lost some and I had to re ask some questions something is wrong with ask today.

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At least I'm not alone. Thanks for responding.
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I'm back to normal again! Well, at least all's well here.
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I asked like 2 questions for my project and they were both gone!

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Did you try reasking?
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Yes

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How did yours turn out? I'm good.
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Fine now
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If the question is asked too much, like who won on american idol,...and already been asked 40 times,.........so if it's a common question, yes it could be dropped,...

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BlastedRemnants
Yeah right, tell that to the schmucks who keep asking about the damn Play Satation Network, over and over.
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@Blasted - the really sad part is that we did actually remove quite a bit of those, but they just kept asking them.
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Well, the question is still there but when I touch it the answer and comment pages are blank.
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Not fast enough for me to resist flaming a couple of them! ;)
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Yes! I can't view mine!!

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Weird, I wonder if our q's are the same ones?
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maybe!...
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Yes.

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What's with the cool purple star. Are you special?
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I like your answers so of course you're special to me.
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It's really because I signed up to fund raise for the Susan Komen Foundation. If you press the star I think it may tell you how to sign up as well on the Ask home page. A dime is donated every time I answer a question and it goes toward breast cancer cure research and awareness.
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Thanks, what a great idea!
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Do you have a link to the question? I'd be happy to look into it for you.

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I'm working from an iphone and relatively new to the tech world but I could go find one of the Q's give you that.
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They are all in my q&a page.
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The first one was asked by lilyxo about air pollution.
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Sorry lilly
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I see an answer from you on that question, were there supposed to be comments on that page as well? Or is that answer not showing up for you?

Also in checking your history, I don't see that anything has been deleted recently, so admit I'm sort of stumped as to why they aren't showing up on your end. I'm not familiar with the app though, so it may be some sort of glitch on that end. I'll forward your question to some of the other mods, who might know more about that end of things, hopefully we can figure it out for you.
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I ran out of comments and had to stop for a while. Very frustrating as you, I hope, can imagine. Thank you very, very much for what you do. I will take another look around and see what's up. Thanks again.
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Too2sweet, everything came back to normal! I don't know if you had anything to do with it but if you did here's two green thumbs up! If not you can still keep 'um. :)
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There was apparently an issue with the app, and they were able to push out a fix for it. Glad everything is back up on your end!! :)
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No, not that I can tell!

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Yes !

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Is your any different yet?
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You may lose your questions if they are deemed to illegal and if the question has been asked too many times.When illegal,such as a jail breaking question, the question will not be answered so as to avoid this vice from happening and if the question is commonly asked, all you need to do is to look up the question and you will find the answer.

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The questions weren't mine only answers and comments. The question was still listed. And it wasn't just my stuff, the whole page was completely blank. Strange!!!!!!
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phil_m99

Sometimes they're just gone. Gone! It's like my best work -pfft - egested from ask.com servers like so much kaka.

Ticks me off. On the other hand, it often surprises me what's *there* next day, so do you think it might be something to do with me? Just sayin ...

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VirginiaL will love that "egested" Phil. And, no, it's not just you -- read my answer below.
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Alas, did not know "AmericaEmpire". Sounds like I missed out. One of the many xword puzzles I submitted to the LA times had the word "egests" crossing "tuberculosis" - a fine feat of construction, alas it was a a fatal flag. (But not as bad as "islam" crossing "jesus" - I didn't even bother to submit that one .... :-D
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VirginiaL
Oh yes! "Egest" just catches your attentive delight... plus I must question the spelling of the fine and expressive expression 'kaka'... doesn't it usually have c's?

And of course one's heart must leap with joy to learn that Phil (who is now sharing his talents on Ask) has loved words so much as to create xword puzzles for submission to the LA Times!

And flag it as they may, I am convinced that Yeshua ben Joseph, the Christ, would truly rejoice in the pure essence of the great tradition of Islam...

I am still hoping AE will return!
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A few days ago I sent Ask some detailed information about where some of the problems are occurring. They got back to me today and said they've been unable to duplicate the problem but are passing my information to their technical people, who will get in touch.

However, I also told them about American Empire and named another four people (from the list of about 25 people I follow) who have not posted in the past 9 or 10 days. Every one of them was a strong contributor to the Q&A and all will be badly missed. There must be quite a lot of other strong posters who have also disappeared.

From my point of view it's not nearly as bad as it was a week ago and when the questions start recycling and I can't break out of the bind, I just log off. It means I'm not spending as much time here in the past, and not answering nearly as many questions, but I'd go troppo if I kept trying to beat it.
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I don't seem to be having more trouble than usual but then I'm not here all the time. I sure miss a lot but I sort of have another life and my flower garden needs weeding. You know, real life tends to be a distraction. Oh well, gotta go, my cat's having kittens.
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Here's a similar problem.

Last week (or the one before) I not only lost a lot of questions, I saw my various counts reduced. My list of questions answered dropped by around 20, and my red and green thumb counts went down.

AmericanEmpire emailed me yesterday that he had closed his account rather than put up with all the stuff-ups. I hope we don't lose too many more people,.

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It has been somewhat frustrating for a while especially with such a short supply of comments. You almost had enough to to help narrow down the problem then they were gone. Maybe ASK could reconsider the comment restriction under certain conditions.
Just a suggestion for what its worth.
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austinlinda
Could someone tell me what "stuff ups" are?
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Stuff ups are foul ups, mix ups, snafus, fubars, sapfus kerfuffles, or just plain mismanagement.
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I'm going to get me one of those big dictionaries too!
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