When they added this feature there had been a lot of talk in the forum about people voting for the first few answers and ignoring the rest. Some thought that a "Random Sort for Fairness" was a good solution, but others wanted to see which answer was first because some people initially give some quick answer in order to be one of the first answerers, and then later modify it to include some of the best ideas of the people who answer later.
But they are not listing the answers in random order. The answers are given in the order that someone first answered and the sort by date feature does not give the date last edited, but merely reverses the order so that the date sort is just a toggle switch-switching to the date the last answer was given.
Another problem is that the sort by rating is not fair to the last answerers because there are fewer rates given for answers that were given later on.
I just wondered if anyone is paying any attention to these new features.
2006-10-12 12:58:40 · 7 answers · asked by Susie 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
i do sort by date,but not rating. i think yahoo can't make up their mind and just proceeds to mess everything up.confusing to say the least. every one answering no,should think about using their unused votes to clear up unresolved questions.
2006-10-12 15:02:18 · answer #1 · answered by Jack's Q&* 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Personally, I try to read through all the answers when voting (and I wish more people would do that). Once and a while I use the sort by rating option, but I only do this when a question has a ton of answers (e.g. 20+). Those are q's that I might otherwise have ignored and not voted on at all. (and unfortunately, I'm betting most people don't vote on those q's).
That aside, I agree w/ you & think it's unfortunate that most people don't read through all the answers; instead, they often only vote for the 1st or 2nd answer. It would be much more fair if the the answers were randomized (but also included a time/date stamp so that when there are equally good answers, you could choose the one that was entered first).
2006-10-13 08:19:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
no I haven't, but I do read all the answeres,but you have great points
2006-10-12 13:02:03 · answer #3 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my head hurt when i read this, but no.. I dont pay much attention to it.
2006-10-12 13:01:56 · answer #4 · answered by misery 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No
2006-10-12 13:04:29 · answer #5 · answered by Judas Rabbi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
2006-10-12 13:01:02 · answer #6 · answered by jojo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
2006-10-12 13:00:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋