There are 2 options for how best answers are chosen, which can be set in the admin control panel:
- The thread creator chooses the best answer.
- The community chooses the best answer: Any user can vote for a single post in a thread to be the best answer, and the post with the highest amount of votes is automatically set as the best answer.
The selected best answer is displayed at the top of the thread, as the first post, and is also distinguished by a "Best Answer" banner and a different background color, as can be seen in the screenshots and in the video.
You can optionally enable the feature only in specific forums and set which usergroups can use the feature, and which usergroups can mark any post as best answer, using the permissions system.
Also, it's possible to easily customize the look of the Best Answer banner and the background color of a best answer using the style properties.
Some other features include:
- Integration with trophies and user group promotions (i.e. "has at least X best answers" criterion).
- When using the votes based best answer, it's possible to set a minimum number of votes in order for a post to be considered a the best answer.
- Alert on post marked as best answer.
- Best Answers tab in the user profile.
- Ability to filter threads by their state (Answered/Unanswered only) in the thread display Options.