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Maybe Jason's team do not know the code for that feature. To Mr. Calacanis: I suggest that you show the helpful answer label and disable the yes and no button so that we can see if our answers are helpful or not.
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Death to Politics...

i can't stand the yes/no feature. it means i have to do another thing. i like automatic features like diggs. if i read through it and like it, then i can dig it. the answers should then rank in popularity of order automatically on the page, thus making it an automatic feature. if people see a better answer lower, then they will vote on that. i don't see the point of saying no because then people would say no to answers that are not theirs.

Then, what i would really love is that they take the popularity and make a Mahalo Press where we can set our preferences and read the stream, rss like or whatever.
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Hu... that is a good idea.

I use the "Helpful Answer" function as a constellation prize when I didn't have the "best" answer. I figure I'm on the right track with the quality and level of my answer if folks hit the Yes button.

I've also noticed that the helpful answer buttons are handy when the question is somewhat controversial. The person asking the question my not necessarily agree with the community and that will be shown in the number of Yes' or No's that exist.

I check with IE (where I'm not logged in) vs. FF where I am logged in so that I can see the Helpful Answer buttons. It would be nice to show the yes and no numbers when logged in.
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Most likely, this was just a programming oversight. Mahalo does not want people to "vote" on the helpfulness of their own answers, so they omit that control when you are viewing the page.

It is easy (though inconvenient) to log out and view your answer to see how the votes are progressing.

But, I agree with you, it would be a nice feature to display the current yes/no votes on your own answers, even when the yes/no buttons are not made available.
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I doubt this was a programming oversight, though it might be. There's just nothing taking its place.

I hope they add this feature. It's been bothering me that I can't know what kind of answers people have found helpful and which they haven't.
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Thanks for the feedback everyone! We're currently changing it so you'll be able to see whether people marked your answer as helpful/unhelpful. We'll roll this change out in the next few days.
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