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One Love asked in Yahoo ProductsYahoo Answers · 1 decade ago

I keep getting email notifications telling me that my answer's been chosen as best answer?

But it's all for the exact same question. I checked my mail at 10:30 pm, and I had 7, I checked again at like midnight and had 3 more, and just checked again and got another one. Does anyone know why it's doing this? And has it happened to anyone else?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Seems like may of us are.

    I have 78 BA notices, all for the same 6 best answers.

    I hope they fix this soon!!

  • 5 years ago

    Sorry to break this to you but it's happening to LOTS of us and there is no way for us to opt out of getting those "best answer" notices!! You can't just change your preferences like you can when you decide not to be notified that people answered your question or your contacts asked questions. We're all just stuck with the junk emails. It's Yahoo Answer's latest glitch. (They get so many here, it's pitiful.) It's happening to lots of us. I logged in this morning and had almost 100 of those best answer messages then another 40 or so rolled in but, as I was wading through them, I found that a bunch are repeats of the 20 or so that I had last night!! Very annoying!! Now that I logged in again, yes, over 100 email messages all about the same 4 or 5 "best answers" that I've gotten in the last day. But that's Yahoo for you, they are always having some sort of glitch or other. Welcome to yaHELL. Yahoo doesn't seem to be able to hire competent help or prevent these glitches so I guess we just have to tolerate it until they fix it. YaHELL indeed.

  • 1 decade ago

    I have the SAME problem starting at 10:15 pm on 12-26-08. I have gotten 26 notifications on 2 answers I'd given. I mean, I LIKE getting a Best Answer, but what's going on?????? =(

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I have gotten 17 BA on the same ? in 6 hours. I was just about to ask this question. Seems like it's a prob everywhere.

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes this just hapened to me to I got like 9 emails telling i got best answer for the same question I guess just a little glitch happed no biggie :)

  • 1 decade ago

    A "glitch" as the result of the latest update. This has happened at least twice before that I know of. Yahoo! is aware of the problem and is working on a "fix":

    http://suggestions.yahoo.com/detail/?prop=answers&...

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes!! it happened to me...i got like 10 messages I got best answer for the same question and wondered the same thing. do i get ten points each time i get an email? and how can i make it stop? THANKS for asking this question!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I keep getting that too... From 0200 to now - the same 'Your answer have been chosen'. Must be a fault in the system.

  • 1 decade ago

    Thank goodness I'm not the only one who got that. Yahoo does get some weird hiccups sometimes. I hope it gets fixed soon.

  • 1 decade ago

    i had the same problem earlier tonite, it must be a problem with the server, i d say just keep deleting the new emails till they stop

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