Why do people ask questions on this site and then don bother to pick a best answer?
What I’ve noticed is that a lot of people submitting answers either can’t be bothered to read the question or fail to read it correctly. Sometimes, of course, it’s the fault of the questioner! It’s quite tricky devising a good question! As a result, someone who asks a question in good faith, hoping for sensible answers, will find himself deluged with answers which just don’t come up to scratch, as none of them actually corresponds with what was asked. How, then, is the questioner going to select the best answer from a clutch of bad ones? Other questioners find themselves deluged with correct answers and don’t know how to select the winner from the batch. It may well be that they’re not sure which ones are indeed correct, when there are many conflicting, and apparently correct, replies, particularly in the languages section. There are, of course, questioners who are after a quick answer and then can’t be bothered to select the best. Note the tone of urgency in the questions of children
