Cast your vote
Recently, many of you wrote to us about unresolved questions and questions that are in tie-breaker status on the site. The best way to make sure no question remains undecided, is to resolve it either by picking a best answer, or putting it up for voting. Here is an overview of how the voting process works.
Vote as best answer
When a question is asked, it initially remains open for 4 days, but can be extended at any time to remain open for a total of 8 days.
• If two or more answers are collected, you can either pick the best answer or let the community vote to choose the best answer. If you take no action to resolve the question, the answers are automatically put to a vote by the community.
• If your question receives only one answer, you can extend the open period for four additional days to allow more time for answers to be posted or you can pick ‘No Best Answer’. When your question expires with only one answer, the question automatically goes to a vote, with No Best Answer as the second option. If an answer is chosen as the best, your question becomes resolved. However, if the No Best Answer option is chosen as best, the question is automatically deleted and you get five points credited back to your Answers account.
• If a question doesn’t receive any answers, the question expires and is deleted.
A question becomes a Resolved Question when a Best Answer is chosen. After a question becomes Resolved it stays in Yahoo! Answers and is available for searching and browsing. The Best Answer remains open to receive comments and ratings from the community.
How do I put my question up for voting?
You can put a question up for a vote:
If you take no action and the question expires, it automatically goes to a vote.
• After the question has been up for at least 4 hours.
• Within the 4-day open period and before the question expires.
To put a question up for vote:
1. Go to the question.
2. Click Edit in the action bar below the question.
3. Select Ask for a Vote in the edit menu.
How do I find questions up for voting?
1. Go to the category of your choice
2. Select the ‘In Voting’ tab
3. You can sort the undecided questions as you want
What’s a tiebreaker?
If the vote ends as a tie, your question remains in voting as a tiebreaker. Once a vote has been cast, the question is checked shortly afterwards to determine if there is a best answer. There are tons of questions out there waiting to be voted on because they’re in tiebreaker status. Vote so you can get these questions resolved.
As you can see, voting makes a huge difference. If you choose an area you are expert in, you can easily vote for the best answer. If you choose a category you don’t know much about, you end up learning a lot by reading the answers. You can pick the best answer, based on detail, helpful tone and general quality, without having to be an expert.
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So, YA is becoming plugged with undecided questions because of the faulty system that it is, and you expect us to fix it? Get real! The best way to solve this is to eliminate the points system completely, or at least eliminate voting, and have best answers chosen only by the asker. But of course, if you did that your number of users would drop, and so would the advertising revenue. It is just all about the money anyway,right?
“• If two or more answers are collected … ”
That “rule” was in effect before “No Best Answer” was implemented. Only having one Answer no longer has any differential effect on the Asker selecting Best Answer.
“• If your question receives only one answer, you can extend the open period for four additional days to allow more time for answers to be posted or you can pick ‘No Best Answer’.”
The Asker does not have the Option of picking “No Best Answer”.
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