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Sure seems like there should be a way for a community to vote on best answer as a setting in admin panel if you like or dont need.
Microsoft site has an interesting concept to support answers which looks more similar to this one without:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/insider_wintp-insider_web-insiderplat_pc/windows-10-1803-homegroup-broken-we-want-it-back/6e89acf7-6121-4434-b205-84857255a894
However Yahoo answer site is more what I am looking for and I believe is more common for general communities instead of business Q&A.
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20180511122828AA9bUfn
I agree it should serve both purposes for styles of business or general community to be a full featured Q&A Exchange. Right now it serves more like a good idea or good question voting only and nothing for users to want to put that great answer in and get rewarded with best answer.
These should hold different weight or points for the gamification module as well.
Other thing about this ... Microsoft also allows their mods to mark their own answers as the best response, taking the chance for the communal reward away from the user who asked the question. On sites like Spiceworks, for instance, mods cannot, or do not, randomly mark their own responses as best answers.