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Why so many votes on this Question?
I have been participating in the Physics forum for the past 2 years. By the time voting ends on a Question, the vote count is typically somewhere between 1 and 5 and rarely is it 10 or more.
I recently submitted one of the 2 Answers to this Question: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AnkO7... I just checked it, and it now has a total of 84 votes!!
Is this the result of some kind of glitch in the present release of Yahoo!Answers? I find it hard to believe that 80-some different people have looked at this very ordinary physics Question.
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@kitty:
I just now accessed the question from the My Answers screen, and it is still there. Its title is "How do liquids maintain pressure in a closed vessel?", and its URL is
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Av0Po...
@Ariana:
Your answer is plausible, but I don't find it likely. It's true that the group has been working in the Physics forum--I've had several Best Answers awarded on Questions that dated back over 6 months. However, in no case of those has there been more than 4-5 votes total. Furthermore, this Question is only 4 days old, and it was resolved just a day or so ago.
It also seems strange that it went into Voting only 2 days after it was posted! How can that happen? I thought it had to be 4 days or more old before making that transition.
So I'm still puzzled; anyone else have a different explanation?
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2 Answers
- ArianaLv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
There is a Yahoo group called the TieBusters. They go around and vote on old unresolved questions in certain categories. They do this to resolve questions that have been stuck in voting for a long time. The categories they vote in change all the time, and they typically pick specific categories to focus on. The link to the group is here: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Yah00AnswersTie...
My guess is the group picked the Physics category, and the members in the TieBusters 'raided' that category and voted a lot on the unresolved questions.
- ?Lv 78 years ago
It appears to be a moot point. The question has been deleted.
EDIT: I can see it now. I don’t buy the Tiebusters thing, because it wouldn’t take that many votes to resolve the question (I may be wrong, though.) All I can think is that it was a very good question in a widely followed category.
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