I believe that would make it look like the questions were contrived. Sometimes when we have a lot of questions at one time it looks that way.
I know it would totally look like we were asking questions we knew the answer to just to give ourself a chance to answer and maybe steer the perspective of future answerers in a certain direction.

Just looks too shady in my opinion since almost all questions can be subjective.

Uhh... that wouldn't be fair, because I'd always get best answer by vote, by virtue of asking things like, "What's Omicron's shoe size?"

In a way it would be nice if Mahalo had a "Askers answer" section where we could answer our own question. Just to be clear this wouldn't earn any M$ or bonus, it would be for fun only.

The best way of answering your own question at the moment is via a comment. Sometimes you are provoked to provide your own feedback depending upon what answers you get. Normally I respond if I wildly agree or disagree with a persons answer/opinion. On a few occasions people are intrigued as to what my answer would be and ask me, so I pile in then and give my answer.

You can also hint at your own thoughts by adding additional detail to a question, although you need to be careful not to steer people to your line of thought when answering the question.

Overall I think Mahalo answers works pretty well as it is, but for the asker to be able to answer their own question for fun, might be a nice touch!

Good question.