Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers blog

We made some updates to the product this week, and many of the suggestions came straight from you. Let us know what you think.

Get your feedback on your answers quicker

To get a quicker turnaround on the answers you provide, we made the following changes to encourage askers to act quicker on the answers he or she receives:

• Resolve questions after four hours – Instead of having to wait 24 hours to pick a best answer, you can now do it in four hours–many of you pointed out that it was easy to forget to resolve your question if you had to wait an entire day.
• Questions open for four days – Questions will be open for four days instead of seven.
• Question extension lasts four days – When you extend the open period for a question, you now get four extra days instead of seven.
• Voting period lasts two days – The voting period will last two days instead of seven.

10-point deduction for abuse

We would like to discourage questions, answers and comments that do not follow the community guidelines. We know not everyone is influenced by points, but for those that care about them, we now deduct ten points instead of just two points for every post that is deleted as a violation of the community guidelines.

Bug fixes

The following are a few of the bugs we fixed:

• Best answer bug – Some of you reported that the number of best answers listed on your profile page was incorrect, and some of your best answers were not marked as such.
• Sorting bug – Some of you reported that when you tried to sort by descending order on the category pages, the results were incorrect.
• Tiebreaker bug – Some of you reported that a few questions in tiebreaker status had an answer with more votes than the others.
  
• Rating bug – Some of you reported being unable to rate best answers even though you haven’t reached your daily limit.

— Yahoo! UK & Ireland Answers team