Selection of KudoZ answers based on number of "agrees"

Fred Neild wrote:

I would like to have natives and non-natives for all my questions.

Fred Neild wrote:

When the first answer was "drivers" I said, great! I agree, this is the right direction. You come along 13hs later and provide a 'native technically correct much better answer' we will all appreciate for later queries to KudoZ, but the thing was "what the xxx means 'choferil'". If I am right (maybe this is not the case but it could happen), it was a tough call for the asker (a native) who made a decision to award the points to one of you.

* Answers in summary are ordered by confidence plus net agreement (shown in left column).

None of these answers are appropriate; do not remind me to select one

under each question I see:
Select this answer as most helpful - Note to answerer

- Choose a winner (Asker only)

Grading KudoZ Questions
If you are the person who asked this question, you may award KudoZ points to the answer you find most helpful. To do so, click the button in the best answer below.

Accept this as the most helpful answer.
Decline this answer

At least 24 hours have passed since you posted this term.
If an answer is acceptable, please grade it below.

Grade/Decline

Grade below

Select this answer
Points:
Comments / Thanks

4. What happens if a question isn't graded?

If a question has received answers but not been closed within three days, email is sent to the asker reminding him or her to grade. If the question remains open after four such reminders have been sent (over 2 weeks), an attempt is made to select the best answer automatically. An 'autograding robot' makes its selection based on the net number of peer 'agrees' received by each answer, according to the following rules:
- To be considered, an answer must have at least two "net agrees" (agrees-disagrees).
- The answer with the highest number of net agrees is selected.rn- If two answers have the same number of net agrees, the first* one entered is selected. (* Note: starting June 17, 2004, the robot was changed so that the *last* among answers with equal net agrees is selected. The idea is that if two answers gather the same number of net agrees, the one that did so in a shorter period of time may be better.)

If no answer has at least 2 net agrees, it remains open.

Muriel Vasconcellos wrote:
I, too, had never seen this message before. I found it by a fluke, as I explained above. Maybe the Robot put it there! To find it, I think, you would have to take a question you had asked that was still pending (I have none pending), copy the URL, and then open a new link to the Internet and search for that URL. Failing that, I guess there's no way to see it. I'm going to post a question and see if I can capture it again.

Seeing the message was a shocker for me and prompted me to raise the larger issue.

Claudia Iglesias wrote:

under each question I see:
Select this answer as most helpful - Note to answerer

Muriel Vasconcellos wrote:
There's a timing issue here. I live in California, and I'm usually unavailable (either sleeping or attending to other commitments) at the peak KudoZ activity time.