What is the point of trying to be the first answer on a question?!
Question: The Rabbi is partially correct.
The reason to be first is to get best answers.
Either is it a stupid question where all the answers should be the same, like "Who won American Idol?", which will get asked a thousand times or more this year and being first means you may win based on being first, or; it is not a stupid question and the person plans on the question going to voting, or; the person is place holding and intends to come back later and insert the correct answer later without writing edit hoping you will come back and think that is the best answer and it was first.
Those are the main reasons. The other reason that comes to mind is that they just are the first person, no ulterior motive in mind. They just got there first.
Oh, and if you are wondering why some people answer last it is either to avoid trolls, or because they took their time, or because they are scrolling through all the questions looking for the truly good ones as most Q&As are closed, or they simply are.
If I am last it was the last two reasons.
Answers: The Rabbi is partially correct.
The reason to be first is to get best answers.
Either is it a stupid question where all the answers should be the same, like "Who won American Idol?", which will get asked a thousand times or more this year and being first means you may win based on being first, or; it is not a stupid question and the person plans on the question going to voting, or; the person is place holding and intends to come back later and insert the correct answer later without writing edit hoping you will come back and think that is the best answer and it was first.
Those are the main reasons. The other reason that comes to mind is that they just are the first person, no ulterior motive in mind. They just got there first.
Oh, and if you are wondering why some people answer last it is either to avoid trolls, or because they took their time, or because they are scrolling through all the questions looking for the truly good ones as most Q&As are closed, or they simply are.
If I am last it was the last two reasons.
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