My Best Answers

No you dont.Go and have a look at mine,and you will see the diversity involved.I stopped counting when I got to 200,and I realise that what I might think is a well thought out answer,may be a pile of crap to the person who posted.Its an individual thing.Sometimes I go for the reply which makes me laugh the most,cos most of my stuff is of that nature.Dont get annoyed,I dont think it pays anymore,if it does,I have never noticed

In any of those cases, have you gone back to look at the discussions to see how good or bad other people's answers are. I've been given a couple best responses when I thought my response wasn't that good, but on looking back at the discussions, the otehr ones were even worse.

It's also possible that sometimes people are giving you best response because they are your friends, or just because you agreed with them, or wrote something that led them to a new way of thinking on the topic, whether you meant to or not.

I often am disappointed when I don't get best response for a really good post, but then when I look at the discussion I realize either the best response was given to a friend of the original poster, or that there really was a better response than mine. I guess I've learned not to worry about it so much.

I do read through my best answers, MCMLXXV. Sometimes a few days will go by, or sometimes I will go a few days when I check every day.

Like you, I have been disappointed when I spend a lot of time replying to something and I see that someone who replied with one or two lines got best response. It's not that I respond for a 'prize' but it does suck to feel like I wasn't taken seriously.

I think that this sometimes happens because some people give Best Response to their Friends. On the flip side of this, I have often been surprised when someone I don't know gives me a Best Response. It's a nice feeling to know that I somehow connected with them for that moment, even though I may not have a clue why.

I would like to know why someone chose me for Best Response, but most of the time there are no words included with a BR.

For the most part, I haven't a clue why people give Best Responses. I've had several given just because the person said I made them laugh. This is funny, because several times that this has occured, laughter was the furthest thing from my mind.

I've learned to be grateful for the moments my words mean something to someone, even if it's just for a good laugh. The BR's are basically just something fun to get from time to time.