What can you do when a wrong answer is voted best?

Vote for the right one. Or pick it yourself, and stop being lazy (if you are asker).

I know what you mean. I've only been here for a little while and seen that happening once with one of my replies. I guess what Pahukata suggests is the only way you can react on it.

I didn't in my case since the other reply was not actually a reply as such. And I can't really can't be bothered that much by it. There are strange people all around Internet and I have better things to worry about. :)

Edit: in the situation Willeke is describing: if that person actually copied a part of another's reply then it could agaisnt the rules of conduct and you can send a report. I'm not sure if you can add an explanation when you report somebody though. Edit 2: ok, just checked and when you report it as an illegal reply you can add your comments to your action.

That's happend to me before. I forgot to get to the Q in time, it went into voting, and the most stupidest A got best answer. I was sooooo mad. There's nothing you can do, besides you can go to the Q and under the best answer there you can comment and say that you hated the answer that got picked best. Best thing you can do. Hope I helped.

that is possibly because of the fact the asker forgets or would not hassle to %. the superb answer. i think of a few human beings return and look at questions that they have replied and in the event that they are "In vote casting" they vote for his or her answer. If no person else votes for a distinctive answer then they're going to win superb answer by ability of default. This possibly explains why specifically circumstances dumb, undesirable or incorrect replies are picked as "superb answer". i do no longer possibly care if my answer is chosen as superb. yet as quickly as I take it slow to sort out a severe, good answer to somebody's question that is nice to get a minimum of a 'thank you' while the decide on the superb answer. as quickly as I %. a superb answer to a question I ask i attempt to thank the different clientele who gave stable solutions (and chastise ones that provide stupid or insensitive solutions)

I try my best not to let my questions go to a vote. Once I did I got a lot of really good answers from most of my contacts and I just could'nt decide....

If you're the one asking the question, then you have the ability to choose the best answer yourself and not let the voters do it. Everyone's opinion of what is a correct answer is different. Even though common sense, or logic will play a part in knowing what is the correct answer, sometimes that answer doesn't get chosen.But whoever asked the question has the choice of what he/she thinks is the best answer for them. Voters can choose whomever they want. And it doesn't have to make sense. Not fair I know. But all we can do is do our best to help those who do have a question and choose those questions that sound genuine to answer. :-) Hope this helps.

If it was voted best answer , nothing . Gold star a Q you A then it comes up in your history , scroll down , click on the Q , if it's in voting stage and , VOTE . That's how you do it !

Relax. Go on to the next answer. Don't dwell on wrong answers. It happens. I skip right on by answers that don't

seem right, unless it is someone who is really trying to get

an answer but has poor spelling or punctuation. I will try to help with those things, and especially Syntax Errors.

It is so annoying but apart from voting for your own answer, and hope others also vote for you, I do not know. (And maybe adding a comment.)

We have an other now, the one about traveling between Eindhoven and Arendonk.

The one that got the best answer might have copied part of our answers and was no help at all, but still one more vote than either of us.

Annoying but that's life.

But at least it was not an IDK reaction.

Leave a comment and explain why it is not a correct answer. It can't change the fact that it's Best Answer, but at least the asker will know.

Edit: It appears you are not alone in your dismay: http://suggestions.yahoo.com/detail/?prop=answers&...

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