The accepted answer is the answer the question owner thought best met their needs. Accepting is encouraged but never required. This tag is for *discussing* issues related to accepted answers, not indicating that the tagged question *has* an accepted answer.
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Allow the community to accept answers to abandoned questions
Often, someone asks a question, gets one or more good answers, and then leaves without ever accepting one. I would suggest that after a certain amount of time has passed that users of sufficiently ...
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The feature of accepting answers necessary?
I'm quite new to stackexchange and I'm getting more and more fond of the model for every day I use it. I just love how order is kept by the community as a whole and that the need for involvment of ...
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Both accepting and upvoting an answer
It seems clear to me that the OP who asks a question will accept an answer they feel most useful, thereby implying that the answer was helpful, which is equivalent to upvoting it. Is there a ...
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Questions without accepted answers and left for months as such flummoxes people.
I found that many newcomers , come , ask question, for which they get a number of answers . But they don't care about accepting an answer . My doubt is , is there not even a single answer that is ...
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If I think an accepted answer is incorrect, how should I respond?
If I think an accepted answer is incorrect, how should I respond?
What I have done
is to submit my own answer
with a comment at the beginning
stating my belief that
the accepted answer was incorrect.
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Should moderators intervene when the accepted answer is blatantly wrong?
Generally the moderators have nothing to do with the actual mathematical content of the posts. Their work is when the posts are incorrectly made (e.g. questions in answers, or comments in answers), or ...
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Do people care about their answers being unaccepted when the OP decides to accept a different answer?
Sometimes, I accept one answer, and it's a good answer, and partly solved my question.
So I accepted that answer.
After some time, someone gives one more good answer, maybe better, maybe with much ...
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Editing a question based on accepted answer
Sometimes, a user will ask a vague question, and an answerer says "I don't entirely understand your question, but I will assume you mean _." The answerer then includes a re-written version of the ...
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No good answer, even with bounties.
Is it courteous to reward bounties or accept certain answers even when you don't feel any of the answers deserved the acceptance or bounties?
I've found myself in the situation in the past, and I ...
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I got two answers that I feel are of equal merit and answer the question… what do I do? [duplicate]
It appears that I can only accept a single answer but I really would like to reward the other answer-ers as well. I did give them an upvote but still I feel that there should be some mechanism to ...
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OPs changing mind about accepting solutions
I have noticed a couple of times that some time after an OP accepts a solution, he changes his mind and accepts another. I am interested in what people think of this. I don't feel it's cricket to do ...
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Accept no longer bumps?
It used to be the case that accepting an answer would bump the thread to the top (front page). Has this feature been removed? Last time I accepted a question it seems to have had no bumping effect.
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Deleting my accepted answer and contacting the mod
I wish to delete my accepted answer here. When I flagged it for mod attention, the review was that there was there was no evidence to support my contention. I do not know what to do at this stage. ...
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“Almost” answered question with a bounty
Four days ago I asked a question on MSE that had zero replies till I opened a 50 rep. bounty on it (now it has only one) ...well now a user gave me rich answer with examples and stuff..but it fill ...
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How ethical is accepting an answer and then accepting another one later for the same question?
I am asking this question because I noticed how someone accepted an answer of mine and then "de-accepted" it and accepted another user's answer to the same question. My question is- is it OK to do so?
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