Questions tagged [accepted-answer]
The accepted answer is the answer the question owner thought best met their needs. This tag is for discussing issues related to accepted answers, not indicating that a question has an accepted answer.
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I can accept my own answer without waiting for 48 hours. If I retract the accept vote, it shows an error message [duplicate]
I accidentally accepted my own answer at The “View all” community buttons in the Community user's site profiles link to a server error page.
When I accepted my own answer, I was shocked.
Here it ...
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Why does my reputation go down after a user self-deleted the question I posted an answer to? [duplicate]
I'm relatively new to Stack Overflow and managed to earn some reputation in little over a week by posting good answers. Today, I found that my reputation was lowered by 45 points (almost one-third of ...
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Should the poster of a question be able to mark their self-answers after 2 days automatically?
After the poster finds an answer and posts it, they have to wait 2 days to mark it as the answer. Should Stack Exchange provide a button or option to automatically mark it as the answer after 2 days, ...
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How can I assign a bounty and the "accepted answer" checkmark to more than two equally good answers?
I posted a question and added a 100 point bounty.
I got (so far) three equally great answers. Each of the answers approached the problem from a different angle. All three answers are independent. All ...
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What is the correct meaning/interpretation of the number of upvotes next to an answer on Stack Exchange?
I am not so naive to think that this wasn't asked/discussed, but I have not found a close enough fit to my question (yet). Also, I will appreciate any improvements to my question (also as per language)...
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Allow high-reputation users or topic experts to "endorse" answers posted by other users
The problem
I am a Physics Stack user and I made a feature request that I was told would be a better fit for the mother meta site. I am a user who primarily answers way more than I ask.
In short, the ...
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Is it not recommended to accept an answer quickly, because it might not encourage users to write more answers? [duplicate]
A moderator told me to not accept an answer too soon because it hinders users from writing more answers. But the accepted answer fits my needs, AND it even looks like a Canonical Answer to me.
Is that ...
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What can be done if a user accepts an incorrect or inadequate answer to his question due to some bias? [duplicate]
I've noticed that a lot of users on Meta, especially new users, have various biases towards and against certain answerers.
I wondered what would the protocol be if a user, who already has a few ...
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What is the correct way to reply to community wiki FAQ questions with an accepted answer?
There is a FAQ community wiki question Why isn't providing feedback mandatory on downvotes, and why are requests suggesting such negatively received? with the accepted answer, in which I disagree ...
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Duplicate questions with no accepted answer [duplicate]
What am I supposed to do when trying to flag a question as a duplicate but the question I'm trying to link doesn't have an accepted answer?
This question and the answer makes me think that I should be ...
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Are sock puppet answer accepts retracted? [duplicate]
A user used sock puppets to ask questions and answer with main account, then accept own answers, even if there's other answers, including ones that outscore it significantly. Self-upvotes were ...
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Should we change the accept-answer feature to question-solved?
Do we really gain something by the possibility of accepting an answer? (Edit 2: following the interesting points remarked by other users, the question should probably be Shouldn't we replace the ...
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Why can't I mark my question as answered on Stack Overflow?
I understand from reading several other questions how marking a question as answered should look - i.e. simply hitting the checkmark next to the best answer. I also understand, from reading, that ...
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What does it mean when it says that accepted answers are immune to the reputation cap?
I post an answer, and I get 20 upvotes. It isn't accepted. Then I post a second answer. It gets 10 upvotes and is accepted. Did I earn 215 reputation or did I get 315 reputation on that day. In other ...
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Mark as "Answered" if no other answers in 24 hours
Recently I forgot to check a question as "Answered". Since it remained unanswered for a day or three, many other proposed answers were given, and some of them were really better than the ...
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