Why do people ask questions and then never bother to rate the answers?

IMHO, this seems rather rude, after people expend the effort to answer a question. This seems to be true for factual questions as well as personal opinions/ experience. Isn't this rather rude?

Does it support the theory that people just ask questions to rack up coins? It would be nice to know if people found the answer helpful. Asked by Mingo 54 months ago Similar questions: people questions bother rate answers Amazon > Askville.

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Rating answers Yes, it can be frustrating. But it can work both ways--if you are only answering for the coins resulting from your rating, couldn't that be considered to be done to just rack up coins, too? I know that is not why you answer questions, but it really is the same analogy.It's hard to determine exactly when coin gaming begins in this situation.

We have to remember that not everyone that comes here gets involved or even CARES about the "game" aspects of Askville. Or that they even care whether you answer the question or not. They aren't gaming the system, they are just playing around, passing through, and aren't seriously looking for a real answer to their question.

They may never come back to the site to even check them, let alone rate them. I have also seen where the "regulars" ask a question, and then are unable to get back into the site due to things happening in their life in time to rate the answers. These things happen, sometimes.

And yes, sometimes people just don't bother. But I'm not sure it's still doing it to rack up points--they get a point for the rating, too, so they are missing out on points, rather than racking any up.It's only one point for asking, so it's takes much longer to make any impact with points if you just ask questions. So, I would suggest you weigh the amount of work that you put into your answers with that knowledge; how much work are you willing to put into an answer that might not be rated?

If the coins matter to you, then perhaps it's not a good idea to spend more than a few minutes when you answer a question from someone you are not familiar with and that has no history here. If you just want to answer questions and help others, then it doesn't really matter whether they rate your answer or not, and you can write as much or as little as you want. There will always be rude people who don't live up to the expectations; it's up to us to accept this and to learn to deal with it in our own way, the way that makes us the most content.

I asked this very question a couple of months ago... ...and I STILL don’t have an answer because the people who are kind enough to give us answers to the question are also the people who regularly vote! It’s all speculation, but I’ll be happy to join the speculation bandwagon, as this is one thing that just makes me shake my head. It just happened yesterday, in fact.

I spent A LOT of time on what I thought was a very thorough and good answer. So did one other answerer. However, the person with the two sentence answer gets voted upon and gets best answer because the asker didn’t bother to vote on any other answer but the first one.

askville.amazon.com/askville/AnswerViewe... Another recent answer was a default okay, which, in my opinion, is even worse than an earned okay. askville.amazon.com/askville/AnswerViewe... I hadn’t seen an okay in a pretty good while and then yesterday, I got two. :( In any event, it’s part of the deal when we decide to help others and/or to have fun with our answers.

Most of the time it is great fun here. As far as "racking up coins", it would make more sense TO vote since each vote gives you another coin. I think that sometimes a person really just wants an answer to a question and his job is done once he gets that answer.

He is not here to "...play" this game. Other times, people just don’t take the time to figure out how this whole thing works before asking a question. We have discussed ways to "get" people to vote and I’ve often heard from other Askvillers that private messaging doesn’t seem to help, nor does having questions like this one where the non-voters could read and discover that people are obviously frustrated.

The people who aren’t voting simply don’t care. Most people here are wonderful and they try to be fair and responsible. It’s kind of like real life huh?

There are just some folks that aren’t going to get it. You're right, it's a little rude but most especially it's thoughtless. Sources: my opinion sweets's Recommendations One Woman, One Vote Amazon List Price: $29.98 Used from: $16.20 Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 (based on 1 reviews) Be the Life of Your Party - Vote!

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Maybe they just don't understand the concept It takes a little practice to learn how to navigate around the site. I've helped out a few newbies...telling them to go to 'My Askville' and check on the activity in the upper right hand corner...and how they'll get lots more coins by voting on the answers that come in. When I see the question, 'What's a quest coin?'....I usually check the newbies profile page, see that they have only one coin...Welcome them....and try to give them a little help getting started...then, sending them to FAQ for all the indepth details.

Asking questions is great...but who would purposely not vote on the answers if they want to get coins? Just offer them a little help learning the ropes.

Maybe they are newbies and don't know Maybe they don't know they have to vote on answers. I was confused at the voting on answers thing myself, as I came from Yahoo Answers which works differently. Or maybe they are just points-gaming.In that case they'll get bored eventually and move on.

We hope.

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