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Why do I keep getting the same best answer for the same question?

I was awarded best answer for a particular question. When I open my yahoo email, I had the same email for best answer at least 20 times!!! No lie. It keeps getting emailed to me but I don't get additional points, it is very annoying. How does this happen and will it stop??

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    It is a glitch. The Yahoo! Answers team knows and is working on it. I just hope it will be fixed by the New Year...

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    A response from a Yahoo! Answers employee:

    Hey guys,

    We are aware of this issue and are working on the fix. Our apologies for the extra email and burden and we appreciate your patience

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  • 1 decade ago

    Sorry to break this to you but it's happening to LOTS of us and you're probably the 200th person to waste 5 points asking about it.

    Worse yet, 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. Very annoying!! For me, it started last night.

    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

    Don't buy the Yahoo staffer Rose

    It is Just a guy looking for cheap points if he were that easy get ahold of my violation notices would be answered (Maybe even read)

    I have about 70 best answers and it is the same two over and over.

    How did the guy get to be top contributor? He's a slick one.

    a Yahoo staffer is Top contributor?

    I don't buy it for a second

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    It's an annoying glitch. What I've done is put all those emails in the spam folder..

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