Will everyone please be conscientious of voting for Best Answer? Tell us how you are reminding yourself to do this?

Methods to choose BA for own questions: 1. Email notification I have turned on email notification option of "Activity involving me happens on Mahalo Answers" It has notifications of “time to select a best answer” though no notifications of “xxx answers on my question” or “xxx comments on my answer”. 2.

Own open questions To encourage quality of answers, I check my open questions through “questions – your open questions”. I will try to remember number of answers that I have for the questions. If I see there is a new answer (for example, I remember there is 2 answers and now it has 3), I will click and check, vote up if I find it good, comment for example if I need to clarify etc.. If I see 3 days ago and answer count is not zero in my open questions, I’ll click in to check.

However, it’s quite tedious to do so. At most I’ll check 2-3 pages. 3.

Subscribe your own questions RSS. You may receive RSS whenever anything happen to the questions. 4.

Subscribe RSS of questions you answered This may be an overkill as you will receive every activity of that questions. Methods to vote for BAs of other’s question 1. Use category Go to category, click undecided, vote.

One of the important category to check is anonymous. If everybody takes care of their own questions, “anonymous” will be the only category for the public to take care. 2.

Use tag Click on tag, click undecided, vote. Suggestions: 1. Set up a dummy question where you will put the links of old, anonymous questions that you answered on.

The question will be selected NBA. Let Mahaloians know of the dummy question and for good Samaritans who will vote question to refer to that page. More questions links can be put on.

If they are voted by you, just comment at the answer “voted”. This is needed for the old, anonymous, newly answered question. 2.

Feed email notifications of “time to select a BA” for “anonymous” to an “atom” or “RSS” (if there is such thing). Make known to all that atom, RSS This is for those anonymous questions that have answers within 3 days. 3.

Disable this function of "NBA if no vote" first for the time being.

Great Call @nancyke11y I am using my profile to see what questions I have open and that allow me to simply click any of the open questions and see for sure if it is time to select a best answer or if I am going to let the question go to voting I will see it is time to vote for the answer I like the best. The steps are easy. 1.

Open the profile 2. Click "Questions" 3. Click "Your Open Questions" 4.

Open each question to check the status. After this every question each the user has open will available right there and with just a few clicks each of us will be able to see the status of our open questions. Easy Peazy.

:) Don't for get we can vote by category for undecided questions and pick up a few more that are not available from the front page "Undecided Questions" sorting button. A bit of a extra step but if we all get to a coupe of those extra question it should add up and less of us will get auto-nba selections.

You get a reminder to select a BA in your email I just received today one and choose the BA However, they said it will appear in the profile also As for undecided questions, indeed the next button shows only 2 pages of the newest But you can select "highest tip", "most popular", "unanswered first" and you will get other page for each It was suggested other way: go to each category and peruse through the undecided questions There are 40 categories-you can see them on the left side and you can choose the ones you like first.

I probably won't choose or vote on my questions until this is fixed. I tried looking at the open questions tab but like most of the tabs it is also useless because it does not sort by date (or anything else, for that matter) so I have who knows how many pages of old unanswered questions to page through looking for one that is recent or answered. The heck with that.

I have tried to make more of a point to go in and look at and vote on unresolved questions, but especially when it comes to the homework-type questions, I can't always tell if the answer IS right (how many mols of sodium attach to something else to make a molecule. . .) I personally find the changed answer page to make it more difficult to keep track of this stuff.

I tend to write answers that are comprehensive, so when I have to scroll down and down and down past my old answers, and when I have to scroll to multiple pages to see even just a few, and when the pages load as slowly as they do, then I'm less likely to catch any I missed voting on. I sometimes vote on the pages where I post answers, if I think someone has a better answer, or to advance the conversation, but that is more difficult now.It shouldn't be that difficult to let us have a better view of the questions that are in play in each of our domains. It just went from less-is-more to too-much-is-way-too-much.

And I would like to be able to easily see answers that I made a long time ago. Without having to subscribe to my own answers. I don't have a lot of patience with the volume of email generated from these threads, so I always uncheck the email notifications.

I go back and look on my own, and I go look to see if there were any more remarks if I get a Best Answer decision. I have noticed a real slowdown in voting over the last week, and I think part of the cause and effect must be observed in relation to the recent changes.

Starting Friday, you'll see an alerts tab in profiles! You'll receive alerts when:Someone answers your QuestionsSomeone comments on your answersSomeone asks you a direct questionYour answer was selected as bestYour Question / Answer was voted interesting/helpfulYour Question will close in one day (time to select a best answer)Someone accepts a task you submitted as complete This is only the beginning - there's always more right around the corner at Mahalo!

I use my profile, or I did, but it's difficult to find them now. I also have it set up to notify me by email, so I do it that way. Still, I missed a few the other day when I was not allowed to be online by my doctor.

I've had problems choosing a best answer in Conundrums, but I've noticed that those answers come over here when they don't work over there, so that's good.

I always choose my "best answer" as soon as I get the message in my email. I do it right so I do not forget or miss out on giving that best answer the tip. flickr.com/photos/8149622@N04/3951429354/ I love Mahalo!

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I personally have no problem with letting some of my questions go to the group for voting, especially if there are several good answers, or none that really jump out at me. In some cases I trust the crowd more than myself. So far as I know, I am not breaking Mahalo policy.So far as I know, it is my choice how to handle my own questions, just as you are free to handle your questions however you like.

If there is a Mahalo policy that I am required to award a BA for my questions, please refer me to that source of that policy. Until then, I will continue making up my own mind what I feel is the best way to handle my own questions. Sorry if that bothers anyone.

Just my opinion.

Just remind yourself when you answer the question and make sure that the answer you replyed is specific and more cear .

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