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Best answer... 9 months later! What is the longest time for you?

An answer I gave just got voted best answer on a question asked nine months ago! Is this close to the longest out there?

I thought questions cooked off after a shorter period, that the system didn't leave questions hanging around unvoted.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    I often vote on unresolved questions, so I may have just given you that one!

    I'm amazed at the age of some of the questions that I cast the deciding vote on - some are over a year old with no votes!

    I've had best answers from about 4 months ago pop up every now and then. I also get a few random thumbs up for very old answers that I'd completely forgotten about!

    Questions that have no votes or end as a tiebreaker stay in limbo until someone else comes along and votes on them! I use my 100 votes a day to clear up these very old questions.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I have had one at three months. As I understand it there can be a tie. Then MUCH later either the machine rounds them all up and allocates best or someone comes along and votes then it is resolved.

    xxR

  • 1 decade ago

    I thought they expired after 2 weeks or something. I mean the always tell me that I've questions to resolved and if i don't then the answer public will ha. ah its a funny world. x

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    God you are so boring. lol. I had one on here for 32 yeasrs and i still aint even got a reply. leave alone a bst answer. Ps that is all a joke as you know. just thought I would try to cheer you up although...........my answer is it was lost in the e-post. Same as everything else so please give me a best answer for this one.

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  • 1 decade ago

    a bit off the point but now im dying to know the question!!! maybe it took 9 months to find out the best answer! wasnt a "am i pregnant question" by any chance?

  • 1 decade ago

    the most i have had is about 6 weeks

    you might have a record their

    congratulations

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I had one yesterday which was 4 months old.I thought it quite odd.

  • 1 decade ago

    on my account that got deleted , took 2 months. yahoo is messed up

  • 1 decade ago

    haha thats funny and kind of strange! I bet that doesnt happen alot!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Perhaps it got overlooked - have a star as your reward :)

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