Serious Question For Y/A. Which one of you had the idea of hidden answers?!?

Yahoo has formula to see if an answer is relevant to question or not. If not it is hidden.

Funny thing several times Yahoo's own answer to a question is hidden so I guess Yahoo thinks their solution is not relevant.

Trick of getting them not hidden is to use key words from question and make sure it has a few more than 4 to 5 words in the answer

PS SInce no one from YA reads these questions I took liberty to explain why answers are hidden

Actually, no one on here had the idea of hidden answers. It's all Yahoo's doing and we're stuck with it.

As for the rest of your question, Yahoo has installed some software that sorts answers by relevance to the question, though the length of the answer seems to matter, too. If the answer doesn't meet this software's specifications for relevancy, (by matching certain key words with those in the question), it qualifies to be hidden. This is why you sometimes see some legitimate and even highly rated answers being hidden, the software doesn't think they're relevant enough. I've also been told it saves space on the page, as well.

That said, the relevance system doesn't seem to be working as it was designed to do and hasn't been for a long time now. I really wish Yahoo would just dismantle the whole thing as its decisions seem to be too arbitrary and confusing to be worth keeping.

I guess technically this could be more of a philosophical type question with a theoretical answer or not...

If the answer is that some MIT dropout came up with an algorithm to arbitrarily pass or fail any given answer. Please don't bother to explain as I very much doubt you even posses the capacity of brain power to even comprehend how mind numbingly tedious said answer would be to me.

Not I. I still do not understand it. As many answers are good,informative answers,as well exactly to,what the person asked and needed to know.~*

Has to do with the length of the answer,and how much it relates to the question.