Estimate the proportion of those questions where the askers do not choose BA?

Seeing as I have just a little over 100 "best answers", I thought it might be easy to take a look and see the different percentages. I currently have 110, but if we discount Direct Questions re new Mahalo belts from Mahalo staff, we're pretty much working with not much more than an even 100. So a quick scan of my best answers gave about 40 having been selected by the asker.

Perhaps I have been lucky in this respect. 25 to 30 were anonymous questions. A similar figure were asked by a Mahalo member, but entered voting after four days.

The remainder were answers to old questions that the asker would have had no power over (answers to old questions entered voting very quickly under the old system), except to cast a vote from within the Undecided Queue. Reasons for askers not selecting? These would vary I guess.

Some questions might have been hard for the asker to decide. Others, the asker might have just felt more comfortable letting it go to voting. More are asked by newer members, who perhaps are not yet familiar with things, or who are happy to just walk away once they have received an answer they are satisfied with.So based on the activity of my own account, I would estimate it is in about 60 to 70% of questions that the asker does not select "best answer.

Seeing as I have just a little over 100 "best answers", I thought it might be easy to take a look and see the different percentages. I currently have 110, but if we discount Direct Questions re new Mahalo belts from Mahalo staff, we're pretty much working with not much more than an even 100. So a quick scan of my best answers gave about 40 having been selected by the asker.

Perhaps I have been lucky in this respect. 25 to 30 were anonymous questions. A similar figure were asked by a Mahalo member, but entered voting after four days.

The remainder were answers to old questions that the asker would have had no power over (answers to old questions entered voting very quickly under the old system), except to cast a vote from within the Undecided Queue. Reasons for askers not selecting? These would vary I guess.

Some questions might have been hard for the asker to decide. Others, the asker might have just felt more comfortable letting it go to voting. More are asked by newer members, who perhaps are not yet familiar with things, or who are happy to just walk away once they have received an answer they are satisfied with.So based on the activity of my own account, I would estimate it is in about 60 to 70% of questions that the asker does not select "best answer".

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