On yahoo answers, why is clearly the wrong answer voted ' best answer' and how to prevent that in the future?
I asked to identify a song name based on the lyrics to a song sung by Ray Charles (I also posted, as part of the question, a request not to refer me to lyrics websites which I had visited or I wouldn't be asking the question, would I?) I received two identical and wrong answers. If the respondents had followed their own advice and looked at lyrics websites for the song they suggest they would see it's wrong. Yet the anonymous 'Yahoo community' voted it as the best answer. But it's wrong. How to address this and prevent this in the future?
Lew2009-03-26T02:58:04Z
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Anyone at any level can vote for any answer on a question that goes to a vote. They may, or may not, read all the answers to a question before casting their vote. That is why, on many occasions, you will see many best answers chosen by the lottery of the public vote that are completely wrong, and on many occasions have nothing at all to do with the question asked.
The only way to stop this happening is,
1. If you don't have any correct / satisfactory answers to your question, delete the question before the open period expires.
2. Choose a best answer to your question before the open period expires.
The only solution is to delete the question before 4 days have passed. After that you have no control other than voting for "no best answer" which only counts as one vote. You can't submit a violation for a wrong answer, only a non answer. You can always add a comment.
If only one person answers the question and has truly tried to answer it, why is it their fault when picked best answer? If you had visited the web sites...why did you think others would find anything different? Re-post your question with a list of web-sites vivited and state that you have gone o these and its not on there and you NEED a different site or something like that. What was the song?(lyrics) anyway?
The asker has the first option to give the best answer - failing this it will go to a public vote - the highest percentage of answers are resolved by voting - normally one vote is enough
Well; since you could not take the time to select 'best answer' yourself, one of the responders went back and voted for themselves. There is no rule here that states they cannot do that.
SOLUTION - either remove the question or get off your duff and choose best answer yourself. But don't whine about it if you chose to do nothing.