Maybe Rankings Should take % of Best Answers vs All Answers Provided (by user) into Consideration 4 Ranking?

It would be hard to use % of Best Answers in the rankings because a person's percentage goes up and down as they answer questions. Also best answers are only a rough indicator of quality. There are often times when there are two excellent answers, and one gets best answer, the other gets nada.

Other times there is only one answer that is even barely adequate, and it gets best answer. And then there are the questions like "What is your all time favorite movie? " where it's pretty much pot luck who gets best answer, and where people might get discouraged from answering if they were going to be penalised for reducing their best answer ratio.

I would love to have a way to encourage high-quality answers, and discourage poor ones though. Maybe if the asker could rate each answer? Something like:Best Answer = 10 pointsExcellent Answer = 8 pointsPoor Answer = -2 pointsIf you got -2 points for a poor answer, that would mean you'd lose any benefit from even answering, so there would be no point in answering unless you had something useful to say.

I'm not sure if people would have the heart to use the "Poor Answer" option though. We're friendly and nice people here.

I'm not sure how it would take it only partly into consideration. What would happen to a new user that has only answered 10 questions but 5 of them are best? This would place them very high in the rankings even though they haven't participated all that much.

Another problem is that best answers do not always indicate quality. Winning best answer for a simple question that you just happened to google first doesn't really mean that you added more quality than a user that didn't win best answer that many times, but took the time to write out answers that incorporated a lot of their unique experience.

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