Who rates answers ? Sabotaging Yahoo answers records?

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I don't specially care for BA but it is irritating to see so many answers not rated by the asker and rated by incompetent or malevolent voters (or people who care only for accumulating points)
I have a lot of examples of completely wrong (or stupid) answers chosen as best even though other were correct.
If YA wants to have more than a mostly junk record, shouldn't they suppress the rating by voters ? And when askers don't care for choosing, withdraw  points untill they would be turned out.

Examples:

Modulus Argument Complex number?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aid2KhTarV6g6mN1Nr7qRp7ty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20100326175132AA4emHI&show=7#profile-info-hk8pLmSgaa
Two answers. The author of the 'best' says explicitly he doesn't know what Mod-Arg form is. I gave the answer. Clearly dishonest on the part of the (one) voter
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What is the incompatibility between General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AtI0MITrIhdlTAJkS74X1Ifty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20100327114716AAuwBn1&show=7#profile-info-uuZX1mZuaa
'Best' got two votes for an empty answer saying that GR wants a precise position to any given point (!) and Qm is a realm of probabilities. Makes qm incompatible with everything else in physics. We were 2-3 to strive to give detailed answers.
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Anyone good at combination?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AnSrGRlqOKdE2oz9OZ1clBvty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20100325045044AAWfKOO&show=7#profile-info-6wOOS9B2aa
The 'best' does not answer the question. Apparently doesn't understand it. 
Also this was completely dishonest on the part of the vot
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Centripetal Acceleration?!?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AsTvMOL1xuTf7ao_YyRj0U7ty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20100325164406AADrWGI&show=7#profile-info-OlUo72TAaa
'Best answer' completely wrong. Answerer mistakes 6cm for .6m. + another technical error.
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Gambling game between A and B?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AsHFQMeXg2KKRZqkMQFVt2zty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20100318234840AAPc44p&show=7#profile-info-lbsMHo0gaa
We were two to give the right answer. Two people voted for 'best' who didn't know the conditional probability formula to be used, made some calculations with Excel and produced a completely wrong numerical answer.
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Why light can exist even after its source is gone?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AmK5dPNFXd9bEyJcBYfZ12Lty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20100317044834AAgZklu&show=7#profile-info-qMnOOcQ8aa
No explanations other than 'it is due to the nature of light' by 'best' who got two votes though we were several to give explanations for zero votes.

And so on and so forth...if people rate the answers to their own question, I don't question even though they sometimes try only to make fun of the answerers, but these stupid votes make the whole record fishy.

Scythian1950 · Accepted Answer

I completely sympathize with you.  A lot of Y!A Askers pose such questions that require answers they really can't judge as best.  Or worse, the Askers are either too lazy or unconcerned to take the time to select a BA.  Once the question goes into Voting, then it's a free-for-all.  Most voters are more interested in just picking up points than taking the time to read through and understand all the answers. And there's the problem of vote-stackers, which everybody knows has become a growing problem.  

I'm not clear what's a solution to this problem.  Unfortunately, even if a good solution exists to resolve this quandary, Yahoo! Answers is not going to do a thing about it.  Why won't they?  Because Yahoo! is a corporation, and so far it thinks Y!A is a fair success, and the only source of revenues is from advertising, so why make any drastic changes?  "Jeopardy!" could have gotten rid of the silly rule about framing all answers in terms of questions, but they have steadfastly refused to do so because the show is a "proven formula".  Why change?  

What I've been doing is that before I take the time to give complete, thought-out answers to such questions, I'll check the Asker's profile and see if the Asker is one who might be likely to appreciate such answers and select a BA.  If I get the impression that the Asker probably won't understand my answer, I don't bother.  And when I do give such lengthy answers, and after some days I can see that there is no response to it, I'll simply delete it, and save it for a better Y!A in the future.

Always Hopeful · Answer

Human societies must have started like this, with people giving more or less random answers to life's queries. But over time, some people got given more respect than others, for a variety of reasons one of which might have been wisdom in a particular field. Some societies gave the resect to the wrong people, and that is evidently still with us. What mechanism do you suggest by which the users of Y!A could assign credibility values to different contributors?

Madhukar · Answer

I fully agree with what you have stated and share your frustrations. Such experience become a disincentive for honest answerers to participate. However, many of my contacts express their appreciation also in many good words that keeps me going. I do not know who will ultimately control my mind and when. I know some good answerers have quit YA for this reason. This problem of YA! merits serious consideration as to how can it be effectively tackled. Unfortunately, any number of good suggestions from serious users are ignored by YA as they are more concerned about their business rather than paying attention to upholding the credibility of the very good community service website they have created.

Anonymous · Answer

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