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It seem to me like more quetions go into voting than have a best answer selected by the asker. Why is this?

It's horribly annoying. It almost makes me feel like I answered the question for nothing.

And it isn't very rewarding to have the community vote my answer as the best (as opposed to the person who asked the question finding my answer to be the best.)

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    true that hha, but its prob becuz the person doesnt know when the question is over, so they just forget...going on a wimp ha

  • 1 decade ago

    A lot of questions are answered to the asker's satisfaction somewhere else, and the asker is too distracted to go back and pick a good answer. I have sometimes asked and simply gotten too busy to pick the best answer after reviewing several that I did not like. Some questions never get a good answer in the mind of the asker. So, the community votes.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I agree, I think that the main reason is because answers cannot be selected as 'best answer' until 4 hours after they have been posted. How many good answers are posted between 2 and 4 hours after a question is posted?

  • 1 decade ago

    The asker wither doesn't know how toi select a best answer or doesn;t care to

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  • 1 decade ago

    Askers ate lazy

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Most people forget to go back and vote on the questions.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    i think of Its ok in case you dont %. a BA each so often in case you have reasons, exceedingly as quickly as I get alota solutions and dont understand what to %., then i might in basic terms go away it for balloting or choose for it after 4 days, yet once you by no potential %. a BA than its somewhat obtrusive which you dont care concerning the solutions you get carry of or perhaps get excitement from it!

  • 1 decade ago

    Yeah i think it is kind of stupid but most of the people that one answers for just don't pick one because they didn't get the "answer" they wanted.

  • Zarfot
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    It is because most people don't go on that often or they are just lazy...

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