how do you award a Best Response

I give BR to those response that are well deserved. You can see that they are well thought out and sometimes would even have an impact in your life, even if it's just a small one. For those that I can't seem to give a BR on my discussion though because most of them are almost the same. I give it to the longest post haha...

Sometimes a response just POPS out at me and it makes perfect sense to the question I was asking. Even if 2 people give almost identical responses I still go with the one that caught my attention first. Sometimes when no one really helped to answer my question I give it to the one who made me laugh. When all my criteria falls I give it to one of my friends that I haven't given one to in a long time. I have a system. Slightly flawed, but it works for me :)

Sometimes, I have difficulty in choosing between two or more responses. The problem is that people have different opinions and both opinions might be relevant and helpful to you in your discussion. So, I try to separate them by which has taught me the most, and which has provoked most thought in my mind. I also go by the way responses are written, and how easy they are to read and understand. I agree with you.. it can be a tough job sometimes, and I'd prefer to see a star rating system or something, where you can award say, one to ten stars on rating your responses. Thus, if you rated two responses equally good, you could rate them both with ten stars instead of a BR. Do you have any suggestions as to how it could be more fairly done? Brightest Blessings.

Pikefish, I do not give a BR to fast, I hold on to my discussions for months before that award from me is given. Then when I do go to give it, I look at who enjoyed the conversation. I love banter back and forth. So who ever engaged me and entertained me is who gets that BR from me.

That's a great question and it's the reason I sometimes have posts go unresolved for a very long time. I keep going back and going over them to try to decide, but it's very hard sometimes. Some of the time all of a sudden one response will jump out at me and I'll see something in it I may not have noticed before, if that makes any sense. When I have a particularly tough time deciding sometimes I'll post that, saying how hard it was to pick just one "best". Annie

It is really difficult sometimes isn't it sweety? I have been in that situation many times and split by two or more responses but there is usually one that just makes you laugh a little more or hits on exactly what you think, something! I tend to go with my gut instinct sweetheart! Good luck xxx

it is a dilemma i also have felt. if I award BR to someone, and the other is also the deserving one, then it would be not right. In that case i would just rate both positive an award none the BR. May be wait for some more time.

It's always difficult to choose but I just go with my gut instinct. If it gives just a little bit more than the other then I choose that one.

If I can not decide by their responses alone, then I go by the one who held a conversation with me. They respond, then I respond, then them again. We are able to keep it going like that for a while. I enjoy those the most.

i normally not bother at all, if you ask me, ill just give the BR to the first person i feel that has the best response, since sometimes i always see poeple with responses full of nonsense

Sometimes, when I can't decide which is truly the best response, I start changing what I think would make the BR. I'll look at my original post, and see who has answered most if not all of the questions as a start. Then there's the laughing factor if it's applicable. Then there's whether or not they're a friend of mine, and how good of a friend I consider them to be. And then if all else fails, I might choose the post that is the most obscure. I did the obscure one for my discussion on periods. There were so many amazing answers, and I couldn't choose just one for BR. So I ended up giving it to rintintin because of his poetry. It was so out there!

I always evaluate their response first before i mark a best response .. see how they answer my discussions then when it fits and i got the answer i want then they deserve to have the best response award

That's a hard one, darlin. I struggle with the same thing. Sometimes I give it immediately upon reading something that makes me laugh or that seems so on point to the discussion, and I never regret those decisions. But then, there are the times that I forget about the whole BR thing entirely, and that's when it gets really hard for me - when I have to go back and re-read the answers and then make my decision. I have, in the past, given out so many best responses to those who I like the most, because it's their answers that tickle me so much, and that's pure favoritism, but I don't see that there's something so wrong with that. I try not to do it so much anymore, though, just out of a sense of fairness. Hmmm, it looks like I'm not being any help at all here, and I'm truly sorry for that, p1ke. I'd say, just go with your first inclination, your gut feeling. That's always the best way for me, in any part of my life. Good luck, darlin.

I usually give it to the first "best" one to have responded to the discussion. If it's a really tough decision, I just give it to the person I know better. May be wrong, but who cares? It's your decision. And as always, there is the ever-enduring "eenie-meenie-miney-moe!" Hope this helps!

I always try to be fair and i know it suits the discussion i posted ... if i know im right with that answer i mark it as a best one.

If a person give me a respondents to my discussion,I will be very thanks to him or her!Then I will join to his mylot and give my respondents to her discusstion,people help me .I had to give him or her a return,while I do not feel comfortable!I will give him or her a BR!