Does yahoo answer rate fraud?

Question

I have seen a lot time the best answer is not rate as the best answer.

Answer 1

I've seen wrong answers rated as best, so I don't think they rate the value or the correctness of the answer.  I also see people give thumbs down to answers that are correct, come from an expert in the field or are industry standards.  The worst is when an answerer is blatantly violating community rules by promoting their own website, business or money making opportunity.  I think it it up to the community to report those violations...

Answer 2

Best answer is a matter of opinion.  In genealogy.. people OFTEN pick the one that they want to believe, even when experienced people are well aware that the answer picked is garbage.  

If the poster does not pick an answer, then it goes to voting.  MOST regulars may not take time to go vote.. so it goes to whoever gets the most votes, and that may be one vote.. since no one else bothered.

What you feel is the best answer, is not always what others think is best.

And no, yahoo does not evaluate what is voted, unless there is an obvious violation.  

Answer 3

No. There are too many answers and not enough paid staff at Yahoo central.

Sometimes people trying to rack up points will vote on as many questions as they can. They tend to vote for the first answer, because that is the fastest. Yahoo! has been trying to mix the answers; if a question has three, they will present 1, 2, 3, then 2, 3, 1, then 3, 1, 2, which distributes the "first" vote.

When I see a question here of the form

"Does anyone know anyone named {surname}?"

I try to point the asker to genealogy web sites that have anywhere from 100 to 1,000,000 entries for the name, or are devoted to the name. Half the time I do that I lose "Best Answer" to someone who writes "Yes, my second cousin's friend had a teacher named that 12 years ago."

There are honest differences of opinion. A fundamentalist will usually not give best answer to someone who uses evolution as a basis for their answer, and vice versa. That happens here now and again, as it did today when someone asked if we are all related. We are, if you go back to Africa 20,000 - 40,000 years ago or to Noah, depending on your religious views. (Or to some other group/period, if you are a fundamentalist but not a Christian one; Changing Woman for the Navajo, for instance.)

Answer 4

Yahoo has nothing to do with what is selected as the  best answer. Actually, I doubt very seriously if Yahoo has the staff to know the correct answer to every question that is asked.  People on the board(folks like you and me)  do the voting and unfortunately, they don't always pick the best answer.  Actually, I have seen incidence where it appears some people are casting their vote based on whether they like the answerer.  It doesn't show who answered when they vote but if you are on the genealogy board awhile, frequently you can tell.

What is so bad is frequently the person who ask the question has no idea which answer is best and they can be misled.

Edit: Also as Wendy & Ted have stated some times there are just different opinions as to which is the best answer. Often time I have seen more than one good answer given.

Answer 5

The asker can choose whichever answer they like the best. This takes precidence over what others have rated it as.

Answer 6

**Best answer, when voted by the Asker is the answer they wanted, when voted by the members of the community is purely what each individual believes is the best answer.  It's just a matter of opinion.  I don't think that's fraud.  

Answer 7

i'm not sure

Answer 8

Can you explain in a little more detail please.

I get you now , my complaint is when people only vote one of their contacts , regardless of whether they think or even care if the answer is correct.