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?"

[jno]

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

[slaney]

Sqad ...incorrect on 2 occasions out of how many?
"Nobody's perfect" - last lines of "Some Like it Hot"

[Sqad]

slaney

Q.How can you have the BEST ANSWER of just one answer.
A. You can't/

[Quizmonster]

"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!)

[Mamyalynne]

I think some may see it as a sort of competition but many (me included) don't - oh and could I swap my Airmiles for Argos Vouchers?

[Sqad]

\\\I think some may see it as a sort of competition but many (me included) don't - \\\

Correct...........and those that do, "laud it" over the rest of AB with outrageous, naff and "clever dick" type congratulatory type threads.

[AB Editor]

Hi, I'm moving this to the "Ed's Blog" - then I'll answer properly :)

[Sipowicz]

Come on Sqad, name names!

[Baldric]

Gosh, silly me, there I was thinking that a Query For Ab Editor would go in Ed's Blog or CB, not the Hallowed Ground reserved for, er, well, News!

[Baldric]

Ab Editor seems to agree!

[Mamyalynne]

Sqad, I know the backslapping threads annoy you, I don't see them as a bother - then I am easy going.

[AB Editor]

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 :)

[ladybirder]

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.

[AB Editor]

Three cheers for Sqad? Or shall we make a new thread for that :)

[slaney]

Sqad - you're taking this all too seriously...it's just a way of acknowledging a helpful answer on a website.

[Sqad]

Mamy.....fine.

But i do.

Particularly when it is "shoved down one's throat" by obscene posts when a magical 1,000 Best Answers are announced.............

[sandyRoe]

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.

[Obiter]

...and we haven't even mentioned badges yet!

[Mamyalynne]

'Obscene?' Crikey, you are easily rattled sqad.

[Arksided]

And still no best answer on this thread.