You can always edit or remove your answers. Simply go back to the question(s) you answered and make any relevant changes. HOWEVER - remember - EVERYTHING you do here generates an audit trail ! Even if you remove an answer, it still shows in your contributions. Every time you...
Ask or answer a question
Edit or delete an answer
Post a comment in a question's diuscussion area
Change the wording of a question
Edit or delete a questions flags
The activity is listed in your contributions history. It is visible to anyone reading your profile. You cannot delete your contributions list !
The two main reasons for contributors to delete an answer on WikiAnswers and save it are to remove "bad" answers or to vandalize.
To delete an answer, you go to the question, click edit, remove the answer and click save
Contributors can and may delete answers; however, this is discouraged unless the answer is bad (i.e. vandalism, etc). Like most of the more powerful tools, this requires users to sign in.
You may want to ask this on Yahoo Answers (or better yet stay here and ask and answer questions on WikiAnswers instead of Yahoo Answers :-) I would guess that since you are the one who wrote the answer Yahoo is giving you the ability to edit or delete it, but is not giving you the ability to edit or delete other people's answers.
We don't but a better question is why would you not delete or report them like you are supposed to
Only Supervisors or Staff can delete questions from WikiAnswers or Answers dot com. Primarily, questions that violate the terms of use or rules of the site are the only ones deleted.
No, they did not.
There are a number of us here that are WikiAnswers Supervisors- when we find those, we delete them- and sometimes, we delete the vandal leaving those answers. If you have a question that has been vandalized, you can improve the answer by deleting that response, save it, and it goes back to the "to be answered" pile.
No, wikianswers is not inferior to yahoo answers.
Yes, some of the answers on WikiAnswers are mean. We cannot help that. If you believe that an answer is mean and hurtful, simply delete it with your replacement answer, or contact a Supervisor if it is really rude or is containing bad language and perhaps the Supervisor can contact the user who wrote the mean answer and let them now that this kind of language and answering techniques are not accepted in WikiAnswers.
You can edit a mistake in an answer. You cannot delete a question
You should delete a discussion post on WikiAnswers when there is inappropriate information or spam within it.