what's the etiquette on leaving a question open when you have a hunch there might be some other answers floating out there?
http://www.mahalo.com/answers/mahalo-answers-street-team/can-you-help-answer-some-buried-unanswered-questions
... as i was fishing for other answers and it had been dry a while.
to avoid that happening in the future, what's the best practice on leaving questions open? how long is "too long" and the thing just gets buried?
i guess, when you do you accept the "I don't know" answer from Mahalo Answers? (or at times, maybe "Who cares?" instead of "I don't know.")
thanks much!
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They're something like this...
If the question was a fairly straightforward factual question, and someone's nailed it for sure, I will give usually them the best answer right away. My criteria for "nailed it for sure" are pretty strict, but if they're met, they're met.
If it's a question that calls for insight and opinion, where different perspectives are valuable, I will try to leave it open as long as possible without risking it ending up going to voting. That could be 2-3 days.
If people are having a conversation in the comments, or I think people might want to add something later, I will leave it open so they can do that.
Sometimes I'll purposely let a question go to voting, if I feel like l'm not qualified to choose the best answer for example.
Sometimes questions end up going to voting because I wasn't around at the right time to pick the best answer.
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Even Jason seems to keep his questions open to the bitter end, so I don't think there is anything wrong about doing this. Also, sometimes I get an email like a week later, "You had the best answer!" and think, "LOL I totally forgot about that question!" It is a nice surprise.
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Don't just throw up questions to boost your points. Unless you're actually interested in answers and aren't just scanning news headlines for some obscure research question.
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I sure hope the thread above hasn't closed any of my questions! I'll have to go check.
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I try to leave things open for the three days (72 hours) that is allowed. I want to allow ALL possible answers AND refutes.
In questions that haven't been answered... I think there needs to be a pruning at some point. If they're out there for 30 days, then I don't think they'll get answered and, perhaps, they need to be resubmitted.
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all good points.
i especially like the one about fostering dialogue. one of my beefs with the "Answers" genre in general is sort of the one-and-done mentality; somebody swoops in, poops out an answer, then never checks back on what insight might be added later.