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Paul B
Lv 7
Paul B asked in Yahoo ProductsYahoo Answers · 7 years ago

Is there any way to change the default order that answers are listed?

This "Relevance" setting is ridiculous. It doesn't work; perfectly legitimate answers are being hidden.

Update:

Obviously I can select the order on each question, but is there a way to choose the default for all questions?

3 Answers

Relevance
  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Is there any way to change the default order that answers are listed?

    Yes as stated you can click on relevance, but there's no way to have that stay as your preference. there has been a lot of users, who would prefer to have their choice remain, so that they don't have to change it every time. However Yahoo has not listened to what users have said on that, and many other things that has been changed in the past fifteen or so months. It confusing for the long time users, and even more so for newer users, who recently started using the site.

  • Grinch
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    Yes, you can change the way the answers are displayed.

    You can click 'Relevance' (or the 'down' symbol to the right of it) and select instead Rating, Oldest, or Newest. Any of those display options will show ALL the answers. Relevance is the only display setting that hides answers, but unfortunately that is the default setting and there's no way to 'stick' one of the others. Each time you click on a different question, the answers will display according to relevance, and you'll have to change it each time in order to view the answers differently.

    EDIT: Nope. There's no way to change the default setting. The option to change to a different setting than Relevance is not 'sticky'.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    You can change it for any particular question - but you cannot change it as the default.

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