What Do You Do If You Find It Hard To Give A Best Response?

I have a hard time with that too. Usually I just rate everyone positive and not pick a best response. Its too hard to pick just one.

dO THE "EENIE MEENIE MINNIE MO" ROUTINE.

I've tried a few different ways to deal with this...it sometimes depends on how big the discussion got though. I've given it to the longest of the "best", the most concise of the "best", the first of the "best", a friend, a new user, an established member...sometimes I've even gone as far as giving it to whichever of the best had the fewest spelling or puncuation errors or was easiest to read in terms of formating. On one discussion that only had two or three answers and they were all equally good, I maked one with best and commented on the other(s) that I wished I could have given them best too. To me "best response" is more of a pride thing so I wanted to let them know their response was worthy of the award even if I couldn't give it to all of them.

I am with ya!It's so hard sometimes.I decided if I have too many great responses to a discussion,I will just leave it. I wish we were allowed to have two.

So glad I waited awhile before responding, pyewacket, because I was just now faced with such a decision. For one thing, when I am going through responses I keep a mental note of the person who made a particularly good response. If I then run across one or two more, I will backtrack and reread them all, weigh them, and then I decide. There is usually at least one little detail that becomes the tipping point in their favor.

I never encountered such a dilemma as i am new to this site. I've started only 2-3 disussions till date.

I sometimes have such a hard time giving best response. Like you said I want to give it to 2 instead of just one. Or maybe even 3 people. I think thats a good idea just giving everyone positive rating and forget the best response.LOL

Between us (cat to cat)if I must choose between few real good responses for the best I choose one of my friends.Now if anyone from the good response not my friend is really hard to choose.maybe for this I still have few discussions without best response yet,but I always rate plus the responses that I get. Good luck kitty....

I find that I have this problem often too! I sit and ponder and read-reread the responses and drive myself crazy! I finally just chose on the the ones that is in my list of those that are great. Typically, these responses are by some of the same users on many of my discussions, so I try to 'rotate' the awarding amongst the responders! What more can I do when forced to chose only one?

Yes - it can be very hard, and I don't really have a definitive answer for you. I guess I try and choose te answer that seems to have come more from the heart than the others if that makes sense. Also - if I have to choose between 4 or 5, and one of them is a new user, I tend to give the BR to the new user to boost their earnings and try and give them a bit of encouragement.

Well, you could do the eenie meenie minie moe thing, but if that seems a tad too childish, you could always go to their profiles where it lists how many best responses they have. The one who has the fewer amount of best responses would be the one I would choose. Since you liked them both the same, I don't find a problem in handling it that way. I've actually done that before.

I'd probably wait & see if there is yet another great response. I'd at least wait until I can decide.

Most of the time, I just sleep with it hoping a better one comes along. LOL. In cases where it is hard to single out, I try to look out from another angles - how often the person has responded to my discussion, how often he get the best response from me and if he is always a best responder to other's discussion. At times, I just let God decide for me :P

your right sometimes it is so hard but i just give it to the one and really helped out in that matter,and i always rate every post positive because everyones has their own opinon on things and i believe there is no right or wrong answer.so i wont give a negative unless its really abusive.but i havent came across that yet and i hope i never do.

Yes it is not an easy thing to do, I guess you just hope that everyone understans you can only give it to one as they can also, I think most people understan though.

there are times that I wish i could give best response to two or more people to..cause you know when you got too many responses,too many of them you thought are best. But of course, we have to give credit to only one and hard as it is I still choose the one that I thought is the best of them all. I wait for weeks before giving it out and I review all the responses again before finally awarding it.

I always have trouble. There are just so many of my friends who are intelligent, thoughtful and kind that it's hard to decide. Including you Pye!! No I'm not sucking up for a best response.. LOL!

I use the positive responses more than the best response because you never know when someone after that one person could post an even better comment and then you are already stuck giving the best response to a previous poster. I like the idea but it's hard to always remember it too. I have a hard time as well getting best responses to my posts but I guess the best way to get a best response would be to make a good, long, and detailed response that sparks more interest from other posters and helps you to get more interest in your post.

well we do the same thing. i really just give them positive rating rather than best response but when i made a topic that im really asking for help, the one who really answers it fully and correctly will have my best response plus a positive rating. i also give best response to the first and only respondent who respond to my topic especially when nobody replied to it for the whole day. that's what i do friend.

I agree that it happens and i think its a tough choice to make at times. But like they say, the best is always one, so like we decide upon other things that we rate as the best, same way we have to decide whioch is the best. Others we can give positive ratings and let them know that thier that. Or even if you have rated a best reponse,and later someones replies are better than your marked response,still you can let them know how you feel, as at times just a good word makes a lot of difference if the response was not marked the best response. Normally i wait for a week or 10 days and then read all of them together and then decide which one out of all of them is the best of all, as the best is always one, the only one, which would outshine and stand apart from all the others. That would be the best. It also depends upon the question that you have asked or the discussion that you have started, and if you have found that particualr answer that you are looking for. At times, it happens that people answer all various types of answers and no one answers to what you had particualrly asked. So, amongst those who have answered to the point and to what best you had asked, you are the only one who can decide which ones the best. I believe that the best is only one, and our minds if we want, are able to decipher and choose easily too. Yes, it does happen at times that many reponses we feel were good etc, but short list those,and from amongst those, again choose the best one and mark it.