How can I get a "best answer award" 5 years later? Like...Really? Yahoo, got your act together.?

Well... That's what happens when nobody VOTES on a question for a really long time... and then one person does! It has nothing to do with Yahoo, as Yahoo staff doesn't really ever get involved on the site itself. It has to do with Answers users. There are a ton of questions that just stay in that 'in voting' status for YEARS - like the question you got the best answer for - because a lot of people simply don't bother voting. If a question that is in voting never gets a vote, it stays that way until it does. And then a best answer is awarded.

What probably happened is the TieBuster's group went in and voted in the category the question was asked in and cleared out a lot of the old questions. If you're interested in the group, the link is on my profile.

I still get Best Answers from 5 years (and longer!) ago on an account which was suspended more than 2 years ago.

Anytime a question goes into 'tiebreaker' status because there was no majority winner on a question in voting when open voting expired, it stays there until someone, sometime, casts a deciding vote. That can take hours, days, weeks, months, or ... years.

I always think it's kinda fun to get a BA email and open it to find it's for an answer I gave so long ago that the question doesn't even look remotely familiar to me.

Nice rant. Questions go to vote if best answer isnt chosen. If it tkaes 5 yrs for users to vote andc-hoose that is what it takes. What? You think Yahoo should go to random folks homes and force them to vote?? Maybe after 5 years you should get your act together and read how the site works. It is all right therer under that about tab above.

The questions that get a hundred and forty solutions are generally a bunch of folk attempting to get simple factors. each and all the solutions are rather the comparable, and/or do no longer require countless theory.