how long can Yahoo go on holding answers open?

Only the Yahoo people know that answer so we'll have to just wait and see.

I did a lot of random voting before the change, especially in the Christmas section - it was the worst for No votes. Then I worked on really old questions searching for a BA & if I couldn't find one, I'd click the No Best Button.

I've personally dropped participating here by extreme measures since voting was what I enjoyed the most. I felt like a 'contributing member' when we could vote & now I see thousands of questions sitting there never to be resolved even though many have really good answers to them.

I would say as long as they want. I agree it's ridiculous to have so many unresolved questions. But since all resolved questions remained on the site permanently anyway, it's just more open questions but the same amount of questions in total.

Not everyone lives and breathes for this site, so I don't think we should blame askers for not choosing. But they need to bring voting back, and just not allow people to vote for their own answers. I think that was the complaint a lot of Y!A users had with voting. So take that option away and bring voting back.

Now with their poor choice of change forever..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.

It is going downhill, isn't it? I wish they'd just go back to the old green format.

Amen !!!

Also, it would be useful if when a question is "clicked", the person could return to the same position in the list, rather than scrolling down again.

Yes, I too miss the old format.

go to hell