why am i seeing questions i answered 6 mo. to a year ago coming back as best answers now?

Not that this is anything to do with Theatre & Acting, but as you're aware, answers are voted for. If there is no best answer, they sit around in the voting pool as long as it takes until someone eventually breaks the deadlock and votes for a best answer. Sometimes it's fun to go into voting, pick the oldest questions, and try to make the casting vote to close them down.

it's one of the reasons yahoo isn't doing very well financially their organization is poor and the ability to keep users is the root problem due to well publicized mismanagement even the chief executive had to resign earlier this year due to lying on his job application, but what kind of due diligence allowed him to be appointed? it's all symptomatic of a company that has lost direction, the link up with microsoft /bing was also a disaster and misjudgment