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Endie vB asked in Yahoo ProductsYahoo Answers · 1 decade ago

Not a single good answer, but a best answer was chosen anyway??

What if I only got answers that did not reply to my question. people did not really understand or read well........ so I cannot pick a BEST ANSWER...... because there is no best answer. But then it simply gets chosen.......... and I do not agree at all..... Anything to be done about that????

Update:

Putting it to a vote seems good. How can I put it to a vote?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Treat it like a political forum because wherever you have verbal, cognizant exchange, to the powers that be, ( and hopefully not for long ) this constitutes a political forum. It's to be steered and groomed to meet policy. You and I don't make policy. But if it stinks, we should at least say it doesn't smell like Channel number whatever. I'm glad you posted this.

  • 1 decade ago

    When you don't chose any answer, the question gets sent to voting. While voting, you cannot edit your question at all and an answer people like will be chosen. They will vote for the answer they like best. If there is no best answer, they could vote "No Best Answer", but that is rarely done.

    Before voting, you can delete your question completely. However, you will not get any points. For example, when you asked a question, you lost 5 points and then if you select a good answer you get 3 points back. Now, you COULD get all 5 points back by puting the question to vote (or waiting for it to go to vote in a few days) and then having people vote for "No Best Answer" and if that option wins, you will get your points and the question will be removed.

    To delete the question, you can go to the question's page and then directly under what you typed, there should be a menu with some icons, one of them, when you hover over it, should give the option to delete the question completely (you cannot do this anymore, though, because voting already occurred, so you cannot edit anything)

    Source(s): And BTW, once an answer is chosen, there is nothing you can do, and it is permanent ALSO, you can't put your question to vote right now because it already went to vote! There is a time limit on all questions and when that runs out, it goes to vote, so, sorry, you are too late!
  • 1 decade ago

    Put it to a vote and then you can choose No Best Answer by voting.

  • 1 decade ago

    if i dont get an answer that answers my question i would rather delete it and ask it again. yes, i would lose my five points but i would rather do that then give 10pts to an answer that didnt answer my question or put to a public vote.

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