SUGGESTION: Extend the voting period for undecided questions?

I definitely agree. If a question can stay open with no answer indefinitely, it seems that voting for the answer should stay also open indefinitely. I've had a few from twitter that I spent a long time on with no best answer.It's de-motivating to spend all that time only to have no one vote.

Maybe they should sort the undecided questions by lack of votes. Here are a few recent examples. Some of theses had multiple, thoughtful answers and no one voted:mahalo.com/answers/health/do-you-think-t... Do you think that we need to do something about teen pregnancy rates in US?

mahalo.com/answers/love-and-relationship... Whats your favorite thing about weddings? http://www.mahalo.com/answers/money/does-anyone-know-what-percentage-of-my-desired-income-i-should-add-to-account-for-payrollsocial-security-etc-taxes-if-i-begin-freelancing Does anyone know what percentage of my desired income I should add to account for payroll, social security, etc.Taxes if I begin freelancing? mahalo.com/answers/education/why-does-th... Why does the church exist?

mahalo.com/answers/education/does-anybod... Does anybody know why Minnesota is historically famous? Its for a school project and we cant find the answer?

I agree with this, I've had a couple of questions I've answered be marked as no best answer because no one had voted within the 2 day period. In my opinion the 2 day voting period should be 2 days from the FIRST vote cast.

Part of the problem is that it takes too long to vote on a question. When you go to oldest undecided questions you see tonnes of plumber questions. Also infuriatingly frequently the next question link doesn't point to the next question but to the current question which means you must navigate back to the undecided page to go to the next question.

Anything that slows down the voting process makes it less likely that the questions will get voted on. See screenshot

to see what I mean. I run a double monitor screen, you want me to vote give me eight single answer questions on one screen, deciding whether the answer is good enough is fairly easy and quick, then I can really do some serious voting.It now takes me longer to navigate between questions than to determine which answer to vote for.

Voting isn't half as much as answering questions so making it as efficient as possible will only help.

I'm with you 100%. I think there is no excuse for a question with a good answer to go untipped simply because no one voted for it in time. I think it should stay in the voting section until it gets voted on.

Yes, but if you extend the voting period for undecideds, then we'll just be all the more flooded at any given time with questions to vote for. And likely no more questions will get votes than before. Instead, I'd say the answer to our problem is some kind of better incentive or motivation for people to vote on undecideds.

Maybe even a monthly contest for who's voted for the most? Or each vote is an entry in some kind of raffle? Or maybe just more Mahalo money?

I don't know. I guess that's asking a lot from the Mahalo staff. But I really do think it's more a matter of motivating Users to vote, than an accessibility issue.

I like boybott's idea of extending the vote time, but ultimately we need more people voting. I can only look at it from my perspective, but I see a small percentage of people here on mohalo that actually vote on a regular basis. (Again, I can only look from who I see on my questions) I believe that if we get the word out that voting is fun, helps the community, and you can build up points... it would at least help the problem of undecided votes.

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