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What is the reasoning behind cancelling voting for best answers?
90% of my best answers were voted for- not chosen by the asker.
50% of the enjoyment is knowing your answer was chosen as best & possibly helped someone. The other 50% is obviously the points. Yahoo has basically taken both of these away making the site very weak. Anyone agree?
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- blα blαLv 77 years agoFavorite Answer
The only reason stated officially is to "simplify" Yahoo Answers http://yahooanswers.tumblr.com/post/82222346538/si...
By simplifying though, they have removed an important element of Yahoo Answers and one that kept users motivated to return to Yahoo Answers once again (I walked away after a couple of answers in the very beginning and came back when I saw a BA appear in my email a few days later for instance).
- ArnieLv 77 years ago
Didn't they stop and think that
the asker doesn't actually know the best or correct answer ...Why would anyone think that the person asking the question would know more than the people answering, that's why they asked the question in the first place.
- Son of T3Lv 77 years ago
The users kept asking for the change. They did not like that people could vote for themselves, they did not like that people with two accounts could vote for themselves, and they wanted the asker to have unlimited time to pick the best answer. So Yahoo came up with a simple system that addresses all three concerns. Be careful what you ask to get.
