Do you rate up everyone who technically answers your question or just the best one?
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I try to rate up those who are relevant, but I can't say I have been perfectly unbiased the entire time. I hope mostly I am.
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I haven't asked many questions, but if someone is nice enough to take the time to give a decent answer, I will rate up each one who does so. For the nonsense answers, I would just leave them alone.
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I usually ask questions like "What is your fave song?" so there can't be a best answer. I just rate them up if they answered.
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If the answer is helpful in my opinion, I rate up. Some may not be actually correct but it's just a courtesy to someone who has taken the time to bother.
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usually i rate people up to thank them for answering my question. if i am offended i don't rate them just leave it.
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For my questions I rate everyone up. :) Its a thank you for spending the time to write an answer.
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Every one, if they answered it as it was asked and didn't make up their own question.
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I am an exTREMELY soft touch and feel very responsible to all the answers on my own question. I usually let the question go a day, and then give all the people I think have GOOD answers points, and then I sprinkle points on those who have zero points (unless it is a crock of utter crap.)
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I rate up everyone who answers too because I think they put in the effort to be helpful. If I see answers to other questions with 0's and it's been more than a day, I often rate them up too. It can be a bit annoying when you've put a lot of thought into an answer, or it's just something you know is correct and the person asking doesn't bother to rate you. I agree it's a courtesy.
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I rate up the best answers I read and don't rate the ones I dont think are not helpful. If someone is being rude, I rate them down!
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Depends on the question. If its something where I'm actually fishing for some useful advice or information- like "What does a Tesla coil do, in layman's terms?" I tend to rate based on how helpful their answer was in those terms. If they gave a load of scientific terminology that I didn't understand I wouldn't rate them down, because it constitutes an answer to the question, but because I asked specifically for "layman's terms" I wouldn't rate them up, because the answer was actually pretty useless as far as the original question goes. If I'm fishing for advice -like "I've just inherited some money unexpectedly, what should I do with it?" - I'd rate up any answers that actually made an effort to provide some kind of financial advice, even if it wasn't 100% suitable for me (it might help someone else) if someone just answered "Spend it all on hats." I probably wouldn't rate them (but I'd leave a comment cos it made me laugh anyway). If its just a plain old opinion question I usually rate everyone who gives an interesting answer. I don't tend to rate one word answers or unexplained answers cos they're just a bit boring really.
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I haven't asked many questions, so I don't know about answers to *my* questions, but other answers, I rate up the ones I think are good answers, leave the others alone. I will rate down answers that are really bad/nonsense or blatantly wrong. It seems these days that everyone on Answerbag thinks it is a sin to hand out negative ratings. It wasn't always this way on here. Good answers should get good ratings, and bad answers should get bad ratings. That is how we separate the wheat from the chafe. Don't get me wrong. I give out way more positives than I do negatives, I just think bad ratings should be given where they're due.
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I rate every answer that the system will allow me to rate.
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Yeah I try to!
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Yes..whether I happen to agree with their answer or not. (Unless someone is offensive or a total a$$). It is the very least I can do since the person took the time and made the effort to answer it.
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Yes. This is a duplicate, the ask questions system automatically brings up possible duplicate questions, please read it! THE DUPLICATE OF THIS WAS THE VERY FIRST QUESTION ON THAT LIST!!! -5
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Yes, I do. I'm so happy that someone has answered my question that I use positive reinforcement to get them to answer another.
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yes
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99.999% of the time, yes. If I don't like the answer at all, then no...and I usually don't get negative points for an answer.
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yes if they are not just answering to be rude or degrading I always give them max. points. as well as every answer i answer
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Yes I do and I try to find the time to say thankyou for bothering.
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Oh yes , Everyone !
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Yes, unless it is offensive or spam.
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Yes, because they took the time to come up with an answer.
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I rate up people who give well thought out, relevant responses...I downrate people who makes stupid, immature comments or who just post their opinion about a semi-related topic without actually ANSWERING the question.
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I give everybody points (apart from offensive/ totally useless responses) but I max out my points on truly amazing answers.
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I give points to anyone who has made a real effort to answer the question regardless of whether or not I like the answer. Although, if someone gives a good tongue-in-cheek answer, I'll give them points as well.
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