Since helpful votes are now potentially selecting Best Answer, would it be wise to change our voting habits? (See details)?

In principle, yes. As for the details, taking these suggestions one at a time... - Only vote for one answer? Yes, unless there are two equally deserving.

- Wait til at least a few answers are in before voting? I'd say not vote during the first day or two, and after that, vote whenever you have occasion to. - Don't vote for answers that are funny and enjoyable, but maybe less serious than others?

Funny and enjoyable is in my opinion good for breaking a tie between answers that provide the same content value. However, it is never the primary decider for me. - Always vote for an answer, even if none were outstanding?

I'd say always vote for the best of available answers, unless none are even remotely BA material. In the latter case, comment as to what would improve the best answer there. - Vote unhelpful on answers that aren't BA material, where previously we'd have let it go?

This is where I draw the line. Unhelpful is just that. If someone's answer is incomplete, but provides some value to the asker, one should not vote it unhelpful.

You can always vote up another answer if you think that one is better. - Anything else you can think of? Several things: 1. Make a point of visiting the Spy feature daily and voting on about-to-expire questions 2.

Don't vote unhelpful if you disagree with an opinion, unless it is irrelevant to the question. 3. Don't vote down an answer to promote your (or your friends') answers.

4. If you have to vote unhelpful - leave a comment explaining why you did so.5. Lobby the staff (politely) to remove the auto-NBA feature for future decisions.

6. Lobby the staff (politely) to reverse the auto-NBA'ed questions and adjudicate them in an equitable manner.

I mentioned this concept in the following answer mahalo.com/answers/mahalo-answers-commun... but it's worth repeating here. "Instead of just interesting or uninteresting, have voters "grade" the quality of the question and answer. I know their tip reflects this to some extent, but not in a way that effects the new nba in 5 days.

This would solve the tie problem (or greatly reduce it) and also dramatically identify the truly good content. " Worth repeating: "help Mahalo identify truly good content. " To elaborate a little further the vote button could bring up the same pop-up "scale" that the Asker gets (5 stars topped by "Above and Beyond").

But while we're on the topic, if I were Mahalo, I would define those tags a little more to reflect what Mahalo wants to accomplish on their site, and communicate more effectively to users. Exs: Off Topic ~ Incomplete ~ Adequate ~ Well Done ~ Above and Beyond (Note, 'Incomplete' and 'Above and Beyond' don't change from present options. ) If Mahalo wanted to fine tune how users rated answers (or questions for that matter) they could expand the options and define them any way that they needed at at any given time.

Not that I'm proposing it override or replace the Asker selecting BA themselves, but in all cases Mahalo would get more value out of the same function than just the up/down they use now. Personal opinion: There is no "would it be wise. " People will change their voting habits and probably already have, whether they realize it or not.

Observation: The spy button can get you to No Best Answer questions, but the queue is random as opposed to oldest first, and you can't tell how many answers. Also, some questions are repeated, I just found one that's in there 30 times, so this is very user unfriendly.

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