What can you do with irrelevant and wrong answers chosen as BEST?
There are lots of answers posted which are incorrect and irrelevant. Worst is when those kind of answers are chosen or voted as the BEST.For now, I know that you can give it a thumbs down, write a comment on it or probably report if it appears to be a violation to the rules.Should an action be taken to take out an obviously incorrect and irrelevant answers?
I know that there are kind of questions that can be answered with any sort of answer but there are questions as well that requires certain factual answers.
There had been questions posted concerning the irrelevant answers: http://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result;_ylt=AsLiuI0DhoZJryvK307_bJIjzKIX;_ylv=3?p=irrelevant+best+answers
2007-10-27T13:42:22Z
Yahoo! Answers employee Jane Said: "If an answer is completely irrelevant to the question, that's a violation of our community guidelines and can be reported as such."
"If the user tried to answer the question but the answer was incorrect, we don't have a guideline against that. However, you still have the option to add a comment with a correction or details, and this will help other people who view the question after it has been resolved." http://suggestions.yahoo.com/detail/?fid=55011&prop=answers
2007-10-28T21:39:46Z
Sorry but the above message's link seem to have been deleted.http://suggestions.yahoo.com/detail/?prop=answers&fid=56347
Anonymous2007-10-23T15:26:23Z
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I think that when asking a question to which the answer is important, there needs to be a certain amount of "due diligence" on behalf of the asker to verify the accuracy of the answer, rather than just taking them as gospel. This applies to all research, whether the source of the information was the internet, a research paper etc.
Personally, I always check the quality of previous answers given by respondants in order to get an idea as to their credibility. If someones previous answers are poor then I will be cynical of any answer of theirs that I am reading.
That said, I think it would be a nice idea if besides the "Thumbs Up" and "Thumbs down" icons, there was also a "Dispute accuracy" icon, where you could also add comments specifying why you felt the answer they were giving was inaccurate. It would be pointless reporting "wrong" answers because Yahoo staff barely have the time to police the questions currently asked, leave alone researching any answer that might be reported purely on the grounds of it's accuracy!
As for bad and inaccurate answers being chosen as Best, I don't know what can be done. Maybe a rule such as "any answer where two or more people had selected the 'Dispute accuracy' icon is ineligible to be chosen as the Best answer"? I don't know if there's an easy solution here.
What I tend to do when I see an answer that is wrong, is answer the question myself but start with a note in capital letters drawing attention to the inaccuracy of the bad answer. I did this only two weeks ago with this question:
In my opinion there is nothing you can do because the system is not set up to report bad questions or bad answers that meet the community guidelines. I have seen many answers begin with "I have never seen, done, or heard of that, but ......" and them there is a rambling guess at the answer.
What really ticks me off is when I do some research to be sure that my answer is correct and then the asker picks another answer because that is the answer they want, or heard.
It's good to catch up with you again. You could report it but that can annoy people. The other problem is that the moderators sometimes choose to delete perfectly good answers as has happened to me.
If it is within the community guidelines, leaving a comment and downrating is the only option and trusting in the good sense of your fellow Yahoo! Answers users.
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