"Why was my post removed?" — the mega-thread

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Did a question or answer you posted seemingly vanish? If so, it was probably hidden. This would mean it has been withdrawn from public access, presumably by a staff member. If you are not sure why your post was hidden (or otherwise removed, e.g. by getting closed), then you can use this thread to ask a staff member about it. Any new posts asking why questions were hidden will be hidden. Before posting, please read the steps below:

Step 1: Read the rules page. You should have done this already. The page is our best effort to list every reason why a post might be removed. The most common among them include:

• the post was a duplicate, i.e. the question was already asked or a very similar answer already existed,
• the question was made on the wrong section,
• the question was unclear, or lacked the detail needed to be answerable,
• the post was an incomplete moveset submission on a moveset thread (please read),
• the question too closely resembled a discussion thread, and
• the post was about getting movesets (there is a system in place for that).

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Hey you, did you actually read these steps before posting? In full? Ignoring things is probably what got you here in the first place!

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Well i don't know much about this, but i'll say this: if your question was hidden, it might have because you did something wrong in spelling or phrased it wrong

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I asked about wobbuffets hatching a wobbuffet, the original was NOT on the "Are you sure your question has not been asked already?"  box when you put in the title for the question. I saw after mine was taken down/ closed that the original question was already approved, so why did it not come up in that box?

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The question didn't appear in the box because the title you chose didn't match. 'Is this a breeding glitch?' has very little in common with 'Why can't I hatch a Wobbuffet in Sword/Shield?'

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I posted a Lucario moveset on the "Good moveset" thread, but it got taken down. I checked, and no one else had the same one. Is it just because I didn't put in EVs or something?

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Yes, I removed the Lucario movesets you posted because they didn't include EVs. I will also mention that we prefer that you post each moveset in a separate answer, so that others can vote on them separately.
There is a list of guidelines linked in the description on each moveset thread, which explains these and the other requirements for submissions to moveset threads. Please do read them. Be mindful that they are more strict than they have been in years gone by.
(Link to the post for context: https://pokemondb.net/pokebase/3284/what-is-a-good-moveset-for-lucario?show=333780#a333780)

Answer 1

I think the Taco person closed a bunch of long-unanswered questions in the past few weeks. While I agree that some of them were dumb and probably better off closed, there are at least 10 that I think should be reopened.
https://pokemondb.net/pokebase/300914/
I don't see how anyone can argue against the claim that people like shiny hunting. There are multiple Internet communities dedicated to it. The answer to this question might help shiny hunters who have no access to real Japanese Pokemon.
https://pokemondb.net/pokebase/308641/
If finding the answer would take too much work for what it's worth, why did it get 4 up-votes? And why did I do the work to find it? Please re-open this so I can really answer the question.
https://pokemondb.net/pokebase/313764/
There is a Bulbapedia admin who is asking the same question. For those of you who don't know Tiddlywinks, he/she/it is the one who undoes other peoples' edits for being too trivial.
https://pokemondb.net/pokebase/317587/
Again, people like shiny hunting. If there's a question that might make chaining easier, why would people not want to know the answer?
https://pokemondb.net/pokebase/318581/
If glitch research is trivial, why does Bulbapedia have 164 pages in its glitches category?
https://pokemondb.net/pokebase/313587/
I haven't played a MD game, so I can't say for sure that this question is useful. Did whoever closed it play a MD game? If no, how can he/she/it be sure that the question is not useful?
https://pokemondb.net/pokebase/300611/
The answer to this question can give me rare berries.
https://pokemondb.net/pokebase/296004/
This can answer other questions, such as "I just found a level 6 Magikarp. Should I train it to level 13 or try to catch a level 13 Magikarp?" If people can find encounter chances for tall grass, why can't they do the same for fishing?
https://pokemondb.net/pokebase/289172/
Knowing more about rematching regular trainers will make farming EVs and money easier.
https://pokemondb.net/pokebase/286646/
If this is trivial, why did it get 7 up-votes?

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"The Taco person"

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Yeah I think you're right, a lot of those aren't bad questions per se, just difficult to answer.

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I think while not rule breaking, if some questions are borderline unanswerable then I don't necessarily see a reason for it to be up there, but also theres no reason for it to not be there since it's possible that someone does eventually find a way to answer it or if information is found via datamining or new methods.

It comes down again to the new guidelines we work on, and whether or not incredibly trivial and unhelpful questions have a place here, something we're unsure about. It basically comes down to opinion, which isn't incredibly helpful I know.

I won't reopen much because I want to hear some opinions from others before we go around overturning other auth's decisions. Many of these have been open for a long period of time, which goes someway to explain why they'd eventually be closed, but again it is possible that they'll eventually be answered.

Oh and in the future, if the question has an actual reason to it, say so. For example, with you wanting to get rare berries from the palpark catching show question, you should have mentioned that it has an actual purpose in the first place.

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I agree with what PX said. Especially his last paragraph. When you say "please don't question my curiosity," it makes your questions seem a lot more trivial, as it makes it seem like your reason(s) for wanting to know the answer are either stupid or nothing more than "just because". If you legitimately think that a question that seems trivial has good application, give a good reason as to why you're asking it.

I'd also like to point out that, if you do have the answer to a question closed due to how trivial it is, just comment on it saying that you don't think it's too trivial to deserve to be closed and you have the answer.

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I don’t think “just because” is necessarily a bad reason. Sometimes things are interesting without having much use, especially the more technical things.

I think I’ve said this before but I don’t think it’s a problem to have unanswered questions here. Look at any Q&A site, they have hundreds or thousands of unanswered questions. We do very well comparatively.

I’ll take a closer look at the questions listed above and reopen any I think are worth keeping.

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I can start explaining myself better, but what about all those other "trivial" or "low quality" closed questions? Why do editors get to close them just because the askers haven't read this comment chain (which will likely be hidden in a few days) and the editor can't imagine how the question is "useful"?

@Pokemaster Now that you're here, can you look at this? https://pokemondb.net/pokebase/meta/68732/ I personally think it's more important than closed questions.

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Upvotes don't justify the relevance or trivial nature of the question. Anyone can upvote.

I'm going to second the "Don't question my curiosity" assessment however, even though Pokemaster gave his own opinion. It tends to connotate a lack of purpose of use and the doesn't affect the question in any positive way.

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"The people who up-voted this question want to know the answer." doesn't count as a purpose?

Answer 2

https://pokemondb.net/pokebase/rmt/54306/pls-rate-team-for-gen-6?show=54307#c54307

I don't see any reason to hide my post.besides,you can't even check EV's in Pokemon X.Not my problem!

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1. save your game
2. use a reset bag in Super Training
3. write down what EVs your Pokemon lost
4. soft-reset your game

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We will not re-show this thread. In the comment I left on it, I explained why I removed it, and the reasoning stands. As stated in the rules page (which I also linked), you need to include EVs, natures and abilities, in addition to the information you already provided, to submit a team on the RMT section. Furthermore, all teams must explicitly be for competitive purposes. The team you posted was clearly an in-game team, and not bred or trained specifically for competition.
Using a repurposed in-game team would also explain your difficulty including EVs in your thread. Competitive players breed Pokemon and plan EV training in advance, so they know what stats their Pokemon have. If you aren't doing this, then the suggestion to start is more important than any strategic advice you'd have gotten on the RMT section, anyway.
If this level of competitive play just isn't for you, then plain and simple: you can't use the RMT area. Sorry.

Answer 3

My post was hidden on an Infernape Moveset page, for a perfectly good reason, but when I tried to fix my mistake by posting a new one, it didn't work. Is there any way my post could be unhidden so I can fix the mistake?

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Can you be more specific about what happened when you tried to make another post?
In any case, I found your moveset and it is fine. I re-showed it and it is now public. https://pokemondb.net/pokebase/25180/what-is-a-good-moveset-for-infernape?show=337205#a337205

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Whoops, sorry. I guess I messed up, sorry.

Answer 4

This question was closed for being a dupe of another question with a similar name. However, they are clearly different.

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I have reopened the question, it wasn't obvious by wording but they are different questions

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That's fair. I can see that.