When the questions asked on YA remain in a tie.....?

It remains a tie until someone votes to break the tie. The program searches every 12 hrs to see if any ties were broken.

Anyone can vote for the tiebreaker. Unfortunately, though, not enough people vote, so there are many q's that remain in tiebreaker limbo for a long time. Some have been there for a year. We need more people to vote.

Also, while you correctly noted that you get an email suggesting that you pick a best answer, many people don't do that. They just come to the site once and never come back to resolve their question. It is unfortunate, esp after others have put in effort to answer their question.

Questions remain in a 'Tie" as long as it takes to break the tie (I have had answers in a tie for months).

As for why the original asker does not choose, you don't always have that power. You can choose a Best Answer while the question is still 'Open' (which is what the email from Yahoo is trying to get you to do).

Once the question goes into 'Voting', you cannot simply choose a Best Answer, you can only cast a single vote (like enveryone else). Depending on how many votes have been cast, your single vote may not make much of a difference

Good question,I'm wondering with ya.

I think the person who ask it needs to be the one to break the tie and they don't for some reason.

It remains in a tie until someone like me can break it

as long as no one answers it