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Has voting on Y!A disappeared forever?
In the Engineering section, none of the answers "In Voting" is newer than a week old, which seems to mean that they are no longer transferring answers to the "In Voting" status. That in turn could mean that maybe they've disabled "voting" altogether. I thought I might see some info on this by looking at recent questions in the "Yahoo!Answers" section, but I didn't see any (at least, not from this morning). Only some complaints about "% best answers" being suddenly altered -- I had that experience too, but it repaired itself eventually. Y!A seems to be infested with bugs these days.
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- Anonymous7 years agoFavorite Answer
It's phasing out. And you can thank the *** holes who run Yahoo Answers for that.
- 7 years ago
That "Asking questions on Yahoo Answers costs 5 points. Unfortunately you dont have enough points to ask this question. You can earn more points by answering questions or voting on in-voting questions." still never disappear!
- Chetak.Lv 77 years ago
I looked again this morning and saw there was no voting again, but there was a couple of days ago so we can only guess they are still fiddling the system to stop that option.
They did say something about a couple of weeks and that must be up by now so it is probable
Chetak
- ?Lv 77 years ago
You vote now on Answers you get for your questions you ask. You rate all other answers as you answer Questions . the numbers of thumbs up ratings designates the most probable answer to a question then its up to the question asker to give a best answer on the question they asked either by the community ratings or that best fits your Question as and correct answer.
Source(s): No yahoo answers voting is not going to be discontinued. - SharonLv 77 years ago
They are phasing out voting but you may have to scroll way down to get to the questions that can be voted on.
- ◄WhoMe►Lv 77 years ago
They took it away a couple weeks ago, then it made a return, it's now gone again. According to the Yamster's blog, voting will cease completely after this month, Tie Busters the group that votes on undecided questions has announced that they are disbanding
