When I get Email that says, "A question you've answered on Askville is ready for voting!" -Do I have to vote?

When I get Email that says, "A question you've answered on Askville is ready for voting! " -Do I have to vote? Not to be selfish or anything, but what does it benefit an answerer to vote that another answerer's answer was the best one?

I don't understand how this system works. Wouldn't that best be worked out by un-biased people who didn't answer? ... I mean, I'm an honest person and if this is what I'm supposed to do, I will pick whoever has a better answer than mine - but what do I do in the case that I think my answer was best when we're not allowed to vote for ourselves?

Sorry I'm so confused! Asked by Tee 58 months ago Similar questions: Email question answered Askville ready voting Do vote Amazon > Askville.

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Please vote! Voting is the only way for anyone to get any points here, pretty much. If no one votes, the question goes to the default setting of ok and that's no good!

If you don't vote to protect your own standing, there might be others out there thinking it and doing it too, so it's important to use your voting privileges! If no one votes it's no fun! They could allow non-answerers to vote, I suppose, but that might mean that people who really aren't familiar with the topic could determine which is the best answer, and they might not knowledgable in that area like the answerers are.

Also, you would see a lot more of the "friends voting for friends" situation, I think. I've alway had the impression from your questions and answers that you are smart and have integrity, so I think you would be fair in voting for the best answer, even if yours is or ISN'T the best one. I guess when I vote, I don't think "which one is best or better than mine", but I look at each one individually and debate in my head what level it is--is it a GREAT answer, a good answer, or what?

Vote for each one on it's own individual merit, not when measured next to yours. The only way the "game" is going to work is if we all vote and participate in the processes like that! Thanks for asking this question--I'm sure there are others out there thinking the same thing!

*Poppet*'s Recommendations How to vote for yourself;: A summary of candidacy laws (references included) .

That you care about them and the system--if, for example, no-one votes on a certain answer at all, then everyone who answered is automatically given an 'Okay' rating, which is sort of yucky; giving the responders feedback, which should help them tailor their future answers (to your questions or to anyone else's) to make them more useful. Voting on the answers to your questions helps the Askville system by: showing the involvement of more people, which lets Askville know how the system is or isn't working; encouraging people to create and respond to questions even more--feedback keeps us all going! Letting some people know that they weren't 'helpful' (I'm talking about the occasional person who answers rudely, who answers off topic, or who writes nothing more than a summary answer in the top line with no further elaboration).

Besides, isn't it kind of fun to rate the answers? Don't you like to read the responses you got and say, "Oh, cool!" or "What a jerk! " Didn't you always want to help your teacher grade papers back when you were in elementary school?

This is kind of the same thing, I think..

You don't have to vote, but it helps other interested parties You’re not ranking them against each other directly; you’re just voting on how good of an answer they are on their own. The "Best Answer" goes to the answer with the best average rating. The votes of the person asking the question count as two votes, and in the event of a tie, the asker’s higher rating breaks the tie.So each responder’s vote only counts as about 1/6 of the result, assuming there are five people answering (it may count more if there are fewer people voting, or less if somebody uses their Voting Authority superpower).

When I vote on other people’s answers, I try to judge how well the other posts answer the question directly, how helpful the post is overall, how detailed the post is, etc. For a question about when you can do somethin See example.com/ I would rate "poor", because it doesn’t answer the question, isn’t helpful, and isn’t detailed. On the other hand, a reply more along the lines of: You can do that under circumstances w, x, y, and z. I wouldn’t recommend it in circumstance x, for such-and-such reason, but if you don’t mind the side effects it’s at least an option.

Source: http://some_site. Com/archive/20030715/do-something. Html I would more likely rate "good" or "great", because it answers the question, is helpful, and is detailed.

On questions which ask for an opinion, rather than facts, I try to base my rating on how well they described their opinion and (in the case of a controversial or disputed topic) how well they support it. I can give a "great" vote to somebody with a different opinion than me, as long as they can support their argument. And I could give a "poor" to somebody with the same opinion as me if they present it poorly.

I realize that not every person posting here will necessarily follow the same pattern as I, but all I can do is vote responsibly and hope that others do as well.

It's all a matter of trust Clearly no one can make anyone vote for other people's answer and in a sense it does hurt you to rate others highly. You just have to trust that others are judging as honestly as you and that if your answer is the best it (more times than not) will be voted that way. It helps that the weight of the question asker is double in the final scoring.

I do find myself worrying about the same thing though. When you think that you have the best answer the only thing you could do is rate others in comparison to your answer. Assuming that I think my answer rates a great, I rate almost everyone "Good" if they answered the question and put some sort of effort into it.

Better effort and more creativity get the "Great" votes. I rarely vote anyone as "Weak" and have only ever given 2 "Awefuls". Lately I've given a few more "OK's".

I love to win best answer but I won't intentionally rate others lower than I think I would have wanted in the same circumstance just to get it. As far as outsiders rating things: I don't think that you'd get enough people caring about the final answer ratings to actually invest time in the rating process so if the answerers didn't vote no one would (other than the asker and a few others that wandered in). I know I rarely read other peoples completed answers let alone vote or ..

I tend to agree with you... Of course Askville prefers us to vote. And of course we do't have to vote. But I also feel an answerer is not the best person to vote on others' answer--although he/she may be the best qualified IF he/she realizes someone else's answer is better... ;-) .

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I am new to askville. Do I compliment all who answered a question. Or just the most helpful?

I answered a question 2 days ago and now I can't find it under any topic. What's up Askville. It wasn't porn.

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