Choosing a Best Answer on someone else's question.

Question

This is all theoretically,

There would be a button to click to click a BA from someone else's question.
Lets say its a good answer. People Click the BA button. On the 10th click the answer with the 10 BA clicks automatically is the BA. The question asker can also select a BA. But if the BA that the question asker has less Button clicks, the one with 10 is still the BA.

Its all still floating in my head. I will most likely edit this 3 or 4 more times so that people get a better understanding of what I'm trying to say.

Hopefully this can possibly come to life some day, and thanks to anyone who took the time to read this.

Comments

hmm...

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What would be the purpose of this? If a BA isn't selected a mod will eventually get around to it (during a BA spree), and if a "not as good answer" is selected you can take it up with the author. It feels like it would collapse as a lot of people would "select" their friend answers and create dupes.

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this is true. These "Dupe" accounts are from greedy people that are scratching for points.

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This is actually a decent idea, though Flafpert is right, there are a load of people who have friends who'd willingly select their answers.

The dupe thing is fairly easily resolved; we can just make it require an amount of points. Maybe 200+.

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yeah, that would work.

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Honestly it's not like this is a big deal. BA's don't matter :P And there's no way 10 people will vote on a single question on a pokebase.
Also this totally negates the voting system, if you like an answer VOTE ON IT.
^ That's why this really isn't important at all really.

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I don't see a point in this, since mods will usually BA an old question if the answer deserves it. I agree that if you like an answer, just up vote it.

Answer 1

The BA is for the original question asker to decide. It's what best answered their question.

If they don't select a BA then Mods are allowed to do it for old posts, but in general it's not important.