I posted an entry entitled High Time in the News section recently and have since then certainly not - unless by touching something inadvertently - chosen a 'Best Answer'. However, I now see that one such answer HAS been given that accolade. Since the chosen answer was the second one offered, how on earth would I or anyone else have chosen it as 'best'?
I am not trying to denigrate the answer, as such, but I was never aware that such choices were simply taken out of one's hands. My query, therefore, is: "Are they?"
Sqad, I would imagine the person guilty of awarding BA to the wrong answer would have been deeply disappointed when his/her prize crossword entry didn't win a penny
"The news element in all this", Baldric, has to do with the fact - explained in the original question - that the query I originally presented was IN the News section and I hoped that ABers who had seen it there or participated in answering it there might also become involved in it HERE.
Where would you suggest I should have put it? (Politely, obviously!)
1. You probably hit the button by accident - or, alternatively, one of the editors did :)
2. You can choose a new best answer at any time, so you can change your mind if a better answer turns up.
3. The word "best" here refers to a great deal of subjective judgements and situations. We could call it: "best at the time of selection in the opinion of the person who asked the question" - but it doesn't quite roll off the tongue quite so well :)
Ab Editor awarded a BA on one of my threads a while back, by accident. He pointed this out to me and apologised. I changed it when the thread had run its course.
I don't suppose there's any chance of 'Best Answers' ever being converted into something tangible. On reaching 1000 BAs whoever has them should be offered a modest sum, say 10p each, as a token of appreciation from the AB management.