Suggestion: Add a Psuedo Best Answer feature.

Question

Like if a person answers a question, and gets a BA, but then another person answers the question, and its not as good as the first one, but it still points something out that really helped the asker, but not as much as the first one, then they could give it a Psuedo Best Answer. It could be worth 10 points (half the points of a BA).

Comments

Isn't this called an upvote?

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People usually get 2 answers on their questions because 2 people answer at the same time with good answers. Or, the first answer sucked so they couldn't just not make a second answer. This would also encourage people to make 2 answers on purpose even though the problem is resolved just to get 15 extra points. @Rick Gastly An up-vote gives you 10 points, I think. But an up-vote is like a 2nd BA. Maybe the 2nd BA could be worth... 17 points? 20?

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@Rick Gastly, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Btw, half of 20 is 10, not 15.

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I though BAs were worth 30 points...

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So a Psuedo Best Answer would give 10 points.

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There's really no reason to have a glorified upvote.

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Then why is there a glorified BA?

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There isn't a glorified BA? I was saying that a "pseudo best answer" would literally just be a glorified upvote. It'd be the exact same thing.

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K. (filler)

Answer 1

This is what upvoting is for. If a question has 2 answers and they both have many upvotes, then they should both be seen a valid and useful answers. That's how you distinguish a "pseudo best answer" from just a regular answer.

If you're really concerned about one answer to your question getting more attention than another, you can simply NOT select a BA for either answer.

Comments

Well spoken, I knew you would say something like this. I don't select an answer as best sometimes.

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Oh, Ok.