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How to choose best answer ?????
iapperently i'm a level one... & looks like i'm supposed to choose a best answer for my questions (is that true?)if yes... then how???
12 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Hello, Joe S.
Yes, it is true. You can be on ANY level to choose the best answer. How to choose a best answer to your question: Wait at least 4 hours, so other people can answer your question. After the 4 hours are done, go to your profile and click on My Questions. Then click on the question that you want to resolved. They should have blue bars that say: 'Choose As Best Answer' and click on it on the answer that you like or that helped you the most. Then rate the best answer with 1-5 stars (1 being unhelpful, 5 being helpful) and comment it & the whole question if you want. Then click OK. There! You have successfully chosen a best answer to your question. You will receive 3 points by doing so and the answerer that you chose as best answer to your question will receive 10 points for it and additional 1-50 points for the thumbs-up their answer has after receiving best answer. Remember to choose the best answer before the deadline to your questions expired because if you don't choose a best answer, then it goes into voting where the Community has to choose the best answer to your question for you since you have failed to do so. You can also vote on it. Also, you can extend your question, so you can have a longer time to choose a best answer before it expires.
How to extend your time on the question: Go to the question that you want to extend. See the pencil icon that says: Edit and click on it. Then see Extend Question and click on it. There! You have extend your question. You have 4 days or 6 MORE days (Depends if you extend it earlier or not) for you choose the best answer. Remember, you can ONLY extend it once. So you better choose the best answer before it goes expired! You can ALSO vote for the best answer to someone's & your question!
How to VOTE on someone else's OR your question: Go to a UNDECIDED question or your question and see the blue bars that say: "Vote As Best Answer". Click on the answer that deserves the best answer. There. You have successfully voted the best answer to your or someone's question. You will receive 1 point for it. Best wishes and Hope it helps!
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- Edd eLv 71 decade ago
You need to wait 4 hours before you can vote for best answer. a blue button will show under each answer. Choose your best answer and click the blue button under it. You then can rate with 1-5 stars and leave a comment. You will get 3 points for voting. You have up to four days to vote before it goes to a community vote.
If its an other members question that you want to vote on you need wait for 4 days or more then go back to the question and vote you will get 1 point for voting.
- 5 years ago
You have to wait 4 hours in total, once that's done next to the person that answered you're question. There should be an option to choose the best answer. Its really simple :)
- Anonymous5 years ago
Very aggravating!!!!!!!!!! Yes, it happened to me a year ago with a former Yahoo ID. Question: "Which comes first: chicken or egg?" My Answer: "Chicken (alphabetical order!)" Another answerer used my identical answer after I submitted it. His was chosen Best Answer. Turned out to be a team of two persons who had a little game going where she would pose a question; he would answer; and no matter how inane (or insane) the answer, his would be chosen for the 10 points. An example -- she asked the question: "Who invented the 24 hour day?" He answered "Rolex owner", and she chose that as Best Answer.
- How do you think about the answers? You can sign in to vote the answer.
- Joy MLv 71 decade ago
If you would like to choose the best answer, go back to the question page (go to your profile, scroll down to the section containing the last five questions that you answered, click on the Questions tab and click the link for the question that you would like to choose Best Answer on). Read through all of the responses and, for the answer that you feel is best, click the blue button that reads, "Choose as Best Answer."
You are not required to choose a best answer on your questions. If you would like, you can allow the question to go to voting (it will automatically do this after four days have passed) and the Yahoo! Answers community will choose the best answer.
- 1 decade ago
How do you choose an answer as best answer for question you've asked:
» Wait for 4 hours after you submit a question
» Go to your question, and click on the button "Choose as Best Answer" on the answers that you want to select as the best answer
» Rate the answers and leave your comments
» Click "OK"
How do you choose an answer as best answer by vote:
» Wait for 4 days after questions asked
» Go to the question, and click on the button "Vote as Best Answer"
» 2 days later, the answer to most voters will be selected as the best answer
- 1 decade ago
click on the question u asked and it will say choose best answer n click on the 1 u think is best
- 4 years ago
It depends on various sorts of matter. i.e. you will have to wait 4 hours, must answers a lot, must give proper answer etc
- Anonymous1 decade ago
you must wait 4 hours
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