Bob Q
Experienced Banking and Real Estate Executive Providing Clarity and Direction Through Turbulent Markets
Why are there so many 'Closed' Questions without any allocations of "good or best' answers.
Many have aged considerably. Is the selection process that difficult? - or, are these likely never to be graded/allocated.
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Octavio B
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Bob,
The behavior of many members in Linkedin network when they don´t rate the questions that they have posted could a mirror of a corporate attitude where rather than propitiating a culture based in collaboration, collective appreciation and knowledge sharing might appear more recommendable assuming a hypercompetitive and egoist attitude, where self-satisfaction and personal fulfillment are more important that collective wellbeing.
It is logic to assume that the person that has made the question has a genuine interest to get feedback from the network. For the opposite, any individual that have developed an answer would be genuinely interested to know how well his or her answer has fared in accordance to the author’s expectations about the question.
Following, some preliminary thoughts that could explain us why the author of a question wouldn’t rate it:
1) None of the answers fits satisfactorily with the author’s question expectations.
2) The author of the question has forgotten what might rate answers in function of its perceived quality, or he or she doesn’t know that may rank closed questions.
3) The author of the question has lost interest in the theme that is being asked and the question has been abandoned.
The consequence of this behaviour is that professionals that usually are cooperative to produce thoughtful answers could feel discouraged to participate in Linkedin Answers due to lack of minimum incentives. At last, authors that systematically rank questions after being closed could be preferred over those ones that usually avoid offering opportune feedback to anyone making answers.
Linkedin could offer for each connection a status that indicated relation of questions closed and not rated versus questions closed and subsequently rated. Being so you could answer any question knowing in advance the probability of obtaining feedback for your answer.
Almost 40% of the questions that I have answered in Linkedin Answers so far have not been rated, and in many occasions I don’t have received any feedback from the questioner about the relevance, utility and pertinence of my answer.
This attitude, apart of being rude and impolite is frustrating when your involvement is discouraged by the lack of opportune feedback. When I post questions in Linkedin I am appreciative about the different opinions that arise and I send to anyone who responds a message of thankfulness no matter if the answer has been helpful or not. When the moment of opening a question have elapsed, I take the time needed to rate the good questions and select the Best Answer because I believe that any effort, involvement or answer in Linkedin Answers should be recognized and if this fulfils a need or doubt, rewarded.
The etiquette of a good and polite behaviour in any social network like Linkedin should be congruent with our behaviour in our real-life social and professional networks. Additionally, Linkedin promotes a philosophy of true collaboration that in most of the cases appear to be dismissed to favour a personal attitude driven by egoism and self-fulfilment.
Months ago, I posted a question in Linkedin similar than yours:
1. What does it mean that a closed question has not been rated by its creator?
I hope this helps you.
Octavio
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I haven't asked that many questions but when I do, I'm not looking to see who will give me the best answer. I'm just glad they took the time to not only read my question but answer it as well. So I don't do the best answer choice.
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Robert F
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Bob,
Perhaps LI mirrors society in that here, too, we have many self-centered narcissistic individuals who haven't learned proper manners.
Bob
Rey S
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Perhaps there are that many questions where the questioner felt the answers did not need to be rated? It's nice to know someone thinks my answer was good or even the best, but do I really, really, really need to know that? For what purpose?
I find it a little amusing that some would think it's good etiquette requires rating answers to one's questions. When I poll people face to face for their opinions, I don't go around afterwards saying, "Bob gave a good answer. Sally's doesn't deserve recognition. And Tim's was the best opinion!" Wouldn't that actually be the rude thing to do?
So all I'm saying is let's not project our mores unto other people. Otherwise, one alternative is to petition LinkedIn to force people to rate the answers to their questions before they can ask another one beyond their limit.
Best regards,
Rey
