How loong do you wait to mark your best response?

I usually wait for a few weeks or more. I tend to mark my best responses all at once when I could find the time to do so. I think it's more effective this way, so I just do a bunch of my discussions at a time!

I also usually wait for couple of weeks and let people to respond to my started discussion. After a couple of week, it takes me two days to figure out which reply is the best as many people respond. I also mark them "+" or "-" according to the effort they have showed in replying. I always think about the quality of writing the person has used in his response and was it relevant and to-the point to my started discussion or not.

hello there carissa..it usually depends on how many hits i have for each thread..like after 2 weeks i stil only have 2 or 3 posts on it..i wil rate BR then..but if i get huge hits..which for me is anythign after 15..lol i wait for a month and then give it out..and take a whole day looking threw the discussions and giving out best BR,,i was wondering..do you rate everyone that answers your posts? i know i do and everyone always gets Plus marks when i anser other posts and my own..unless they break the rules..but i have been seeing not many people have been doing that..just curious..do u give out rating to everyone that answers threads?? have a good one! :)

I have no definite time on choosing one, but I do choose one after a week. I choose one if I think that responder did make a good point about their response, which is detailed and in good quality. I don't have to choose one that agree's with me, as long as they did put their post in a nice way. I still wait for a while, for others to have a chance in voicing out their opinions, but if my discussion don't move at all then I'd choose one no matter how many have participated on it.

Some of my discussions won't have a best response because the responses are pure opinion and there isn't a right or wrong answer. And some I couldn't choose between two great responses. And then there are times where I read the first response and it is well written and captured what I was thinking and I mark it right away.

I try to wait until I get a response that I think is the best of the lot, but not too long, because I don't like to keep things hanging, and it's nice for a person who has taken the time to answer me, to get their "reward" as early as possible, so I feel obligated to try and do that. However I will not usually mark a best response until the response is really the best or at least the one that closely matches the answer I am looking for. In some cases where I don't get a lot of responses then I have to choose the "best of the lot" if I don't want to leave it unresolved. For example, if a discussion is more than a few months old, and I still don't have a lot of responses, then I just choose the best of the lot if I think I really don't want to wait any more to get responses.