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Does anyone else feel less motivated to use YahooAnswers now that Comments on Best Answers fr. askers gone?
I no longer get any info about my Best Answers from askers (whether they're rated 1 star or 5 stars) so I have no idea *what it was* about my answer that told them what they wanted to know, or didn't so I can make them better next time.
Not every asker choosing a Best Answer used to leave a reason or comment, I know, but the ones who did made the experience at YahooAnswers much more satisfying by clarifying their reaction, or just by giving a tiny bit of personalization.
After working hard at my answers, that's not reinforcing at all and a let-down.
Now it feell like answerers are just responding to robots-somewhere-out-there, and never getting any kind of feedback at all (except 1-5 stars, or not be chosen BA--which isn't much).
I'm finding this is making my participation at YA less appealing and interesting more each day, although I'm a frequent answerer (with high percentage of Best Answers).
Does anyone else feel this way?
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Okay, I guess it's still there but **not noticeable** unless you know to look, and know where to look.
It's a teeny & grayed out "1 Comment" located all the way across the field fr. the asker's rating. Clicking on that will bring up the asker's response to their Best Answer. The text ysed to be immediately visible under the asker's rating, which was great. (The last YA could do would be to move that "1 Comment" next to the stars, & also explain it could be from the asker as well as others
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- MarkLv 57 years agoFavorite Answer
Less Motivated, yes, I suppose I could put it that way. I looked forward to seeing if my answer was chosen best, it was an acknowledgement of helping someone. I would not want to give the wrong impression that I don't have a life and that Yahoo Answers is the only communications I have with the outside world, but my family isn't the most inquisitive of people on the planet and I do get to speak to some very good questions here in the answers community. I wish the admins would stop making these changes because it wasn't broken. Just two cents worth.
- ?Lv 77 years ago
Some of the changes are annoying and with the indifference to ones posts it seems like not that many are willing to be in the spirit and even respond in almost any manor.
