Query For Ab Editor

[Quizmonster]

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]

slaney....I don't see it that way.

In my life i have never been given something for nothing, I have always worked for what i have got an valued it.

The part that i am referring too, is well known by most participating in this thread and it involves getting something for nothing in a blatantly uneven playing field.

This i accept.....life isn't always fair........but the BA fanfare by one and a Mod everytime one gets 1000 BA sticks in my crop and clearly other ABers are also unhappy.

[jno]

sandyRoe, you win one of these

http://goldforwarcraft.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/rs-runefest-2013-gga.jpg

[Sqad]

mamy...yes...obscene.....that is how I see it.

[sandyRoe]

A week in the garden and the gold would have washed off.

[Mamyalynne]

I never got a congratulatory thread ....I may sulk.

[jno]

oh, I'd never let any of mine outside, sandyRoe, too many thieves and seagulls; they come in useful as doorstops, though.

[sandyRoe]

AB towers have given you more that one? Where's my gnome? Life's not fair.

[aelmpvw]

Since the chosen answer was the second one offered, how on earth would I or anyone else have chosen it as 'best'?

because it was?

[Obiter]

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1358920.html

[Quizmonster]

Well, silly me, Baldric! There was I imagining that Ed's Blog was a blog created by Ed whenever the spirit moved him/her to do so. Having never looked at it, I had no idea that just anybody was at liberty to post material as an originator there, whilst I guessed that the rest of us could respond to whatever was posted by Ed.
Doesn't one live and learn? Having said that, it seems several dozen other ABers were quite happy about where my query was posted, so I am, too.

[Bazile]

//And still no best answer on this thread. //

I think mine and jno's , airmiles should be in the running .

Ah , but no, i just remembered the point behind this thread

[jno]

oh, I've given thousands of best answers, sandyRoe, but I always ask them if I can start from scratch after I've got my gnome, as I don't want to discourage others.

[Baldric]

Did I say I was unhappy with it?
I simply asked a reasonable question imo,
And am happy with that ;-)

[Bazile]

Meanwhile , back at the ranch , while this is being discussed , Julian Assange has quietly slipped out through the back door , without anyone noticing

[Quizmonster]

Aelmpvw, it seems you overlooked my response timed at 15.59. Your question was answered there.

[Obiter]

Again I agree with QM. Inadvertently post a Q in the wrong category and someone will jump down your throat saying,"This should have been under such-and such"

As if it matters...

[slaney]

Sqad - "getting something for nothing" - so you think so little effort or ability is required to give a crossword answer that BA should not apply in that category?
Or have I completely misunderstood?

[DTCwordfan]

QM, take the money - press the button; it will make your day.......

[Obiter]

I think that you have completely misunderstood. Sqad's point, as I perceive it, is that in crosswords there is no such thing as a best answer, merely a correct or incorrect one.

[aelmpvw]

my apologies Quizmonster, i did indeed miss that post :-)