Can someone cheat the system. Please comment.
2007-02-03 11:24:23 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No, and no.
The asker chooses the best answer, or member vote for best answer, in any case, it is opinion, so that is not necessarily the "best" answer.
I do not see how you could cheat at this, what would the point be?
2007-02-03 11:28:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Many times the best answers are NOT the right or even best answers. I had a couple of questions that I extended the time. What YA doesn't tell you is that when you do that you will never be told when it is going to expire again. Apparently that just puts it in line for voting. And voting is a joke I have just discovered. I am so embarrassed about a question that I ask members of Islam. It was a serious question and had a lot of good answers and a couple of smart-*** answers. And because I didn't catch it in time the worst possible answer was voted in. It was an answer that was an insult to the Muslims. And there was no way for me to over ride it or anything. The system sucks! And there is no way that I have found to contact YA HELP for a rep. We are just out here is space.. (some a bit more than others, but you know what I mean.)
PS. Now isn't this interesting. I did not put the *** in that word I spelled the A word out. YA must have a censoring program that takes these words out. Too bad they can't get the rest of their act straightened out.
2007-02-03 19:36:17 · answer #2 · answered by tonks_op 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The answer so far as I have been receiving a lot of 3 to 5 stars does not make me believe I am saying the right thing always. I have proven it many times that those who gave me a thumbs up just wanted an assurance that they are not alone in their thinking. I could be right but others are entilted to a different opinion. It is not cheating, it just depend on how it sound convincing to the readers.
2007-02-03 19:32:58 · answer #3 · answered by Rallie Florencio C 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The best answers are based on the opinions of the questioner or voters, and are not necessarily correct. In other words, the Best Answer is what works for the one asking the question.
If the best answers were all compiled in a book, would someone make a religion out of it 2000 years from now?
2007-02-03 19:34:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is no way to cheat.
You pose a question and you choose the one that you feel answered your question the best.
If you do not get the answer you are looking for and abandon the question, then it defaults into the Vote segment of Yahoo Answers and you loose the 5 points it cost you for asking the question.
We on the other hand get 1 point for voting for the answer we feel answered the question.
And if there are enough votes for that answer, that person gets the 10 points for best answer plus and additional points for thumbs ups by others who visited your question.
2007-02-03 19:34:34 · answer #5 · answered by Here I Am 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The best answer is not always the right answer. If it is chosen by the asker, his or her opinions can be a very strong factor in which answer is chosen as "best". The same applies to "best answers" chosen by vote. And I suppose that someone can make up several Yahoo identities to change the voting numbers, but that seems pretty petty to me.
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2007-02-03 19:29:11 · answer #6 · answered by Weird Darryl 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Of course not! But Yahoo has given the posters some power to posters to rate answers to help determine which one is the best. Although if you have a lot of cliques, you can still manipulate the results.
Some answers are genuinely the best though. So there's hope.
2007-02-04 03:46:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Frequently they are not. Best answers chosen by asker may well be incorrect, based on the asker's own biases rather than any sort of factual data. Best answers chosen by voters are more likely to be correct, as the people who vote on them are more likely to be disinterested in the outcome; some of them are experts in their field. But even here, it can happen that voters on an issue happen to have a similar bias and will choose a wrong answer.
2007-02-03 19:34:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I usually think I should try to say what the person wants to hear, but sometimes I think I'm being onery and giving an answer they don't like and I still get best answer. When I think I have a great answer, though, the other person often doesn't think as much of it as I do.
2007-02-03 19:29:45 · answer #9 · answered by rcpeabody1 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The majority fo people in this section select answers that are closest to their opinions, regardless of how much sense they make. Having a best answer does not always mean a right answer, and more often than not means a yeah-ur-right-i-agree-100% answer.
2007-02-03 19:29:06 · answer #10 · answered by hayaa_bi_taqwa 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋