Why do people always?

Question

why do peole always vote the best answer for the long answers when it can be put togather in three words and says the same thing

Answer 1

I.  Don't.  Know.  (My answer is short. . . . hope I win for best answer!)  Hehehe.

Answer 2

I agree,but not all of people,most of them!...but maybe it's because of the time they'd spent to answer,it means the answer is important to them probably...but I think it shouldn't be like that all time.

Answer 3

They think that because it's a long answer, it is ALWAYS informative when it's not always the case.

Answer 4

do they?

Answer 5

I don't care if i get best answer or not as long as i get my opinion in that's fine with me . h**l you can even get all thumbs up and the person that gets all thumbs down will get best answer . Just depends on the person asking the question .

Answer 6

I read a wonderful book on creative writing which said:

A good paragraph is better than a page

A good sentence is better than a paragraph

A good word is better than a sentence

In other words, try to convey as much information as possible in the shortest amount of time.  Most writers can't do this.

Answer 7

im not sure, maybe theyre awarding them for the time it took to write the answer out, but i know what youre talking about

Answer 8

I strongly agree.

Answer 9

I don't.... in fact I'm just as inclined to even give a thumbs down to verbose answers... and in any case frequently it comes down to the old saying "If you can't dazzle them with your intellect then baffle them with BS"

Answer 10

It's probably because most of those who voted do not really know what the answer is about but just thinks that if the answer is long and complicated then maybe it is the correct one. Or a much more practical explanation would be because the long answers provide the most explanation and proof.

Answer 11

i have answered shortly and they voted the best, but probably cuz they think if the answer is long then they kno wut theyre talkin about

Answer 12

cause maybe the person who answered seems to have put more effort into it? i dont know.

Answer 13

It would be too long a task to enumerate here all the evil results of pride, inasmuch as the proud are a prey to all the emotions, though to none of them less than to love and pity. I cannot, however, pass over in silence the fact, that a man may be called proud from his underestimation of other people; and, therefore, pride in this sense may be defined as pleasure arising from the false opinion, whereby a man may consider himself superior to his fellows. The dejection, which is the opposite quality to this sort of pride, may be defined as pain arising from the false opinion, whereby a man may think himself inferior to his fellows. Such being the case, we can easily see that a, proud man is necessarily envious (III. xli. note), and only takes pleasure in the company, who fool his weak mind to the top of his bent, and make him insane instead of merely foolish.

    Though dejection is the emotion contrary to pride, yet is the dejected man very near akin to the proud man. For, inasmuch as his pain arises from a comparison between his own infirmity and other men's power or virtue, it will be removed, or, in other words, he will feel pleasure, if his imagination be occupied in contemplating other men's faults; whence arises the proverb, "The unhappy are comforted by finding fellow-sufferers." Contrariwise, he will be the more pained in proportion as he thinks himself inferior to others; hence none are so prone to envy as the dejected, they are specially keen in observing men's actions, with a view to fault-finding rather than correction, in order to reserve their praises for dejection, and to glory therein, though all the time with a dejected air. These effects follow as necessarily from the said emotion, as it follows from the nature of a triangle, that the three angles are equal to two right angles. I have already said that I call these and similar emotions bad, solely in respect to what is useful to man. The laws of nature have regard to nature's general order, whereof man is but a part. I mention this, in passing, lest any should think that I have wished to set forth the faults and irrational deeds of men rather than the nature and properties of things. For, as I said in the preface to the third Part, I regard human emotions and their properties as on the same footing with other natural phenomena. Assuredly human emotions indicate the power and ingenuity, of nature, if not of human nature, quite as fully as other things which we admire, and which we delight to contemplate. But I pass on to note those qualities in the emotions, which bring advantage to man, or inflict injury upon him.

Answer 14

i have given so many short ans but never ever my ans was selected as best....... lol   but y have u put this ques in conservation category