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How do I get attention for one of my own questions without a good answer? What can I do when getting "We are no longer accepting questions/answers from this account"? … Can I answer my own questions, even if I knew the answer before asking? Accepting answers How does accepting an answer work? How do I see which of my questions are not accepted? …
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How does accepting an answer work?

Unlike accepting an answer, you can upvote as many answers to your question as you like. What should I do if none of the answers are suitable? … This is also applicable if no one answer helped you, but you instead combined information from multiple answers. …
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Is cross-posting a question on multiple Stack Exchange sites permitted if the question is on...

It is possible to migrate a question from one Stack Exchange site to another by closing, but if I have a question that I think is on-topic for multiple Stack Exchange sites, is it OK to post it on both … Is there any way to make the question visible on multiple sites (crosspost) and then accept the answer wherever it came from? Return to FAQ index …
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Accept Multiple Answers or Split Bounty among Several Users

Often more than one person contributes to the community coming up with the final accepted answer to a question. However, it is only possible to accept a single answer. … Of course I could always upvote their previous answers, but this is really incorrect if their previous answers aren't the complete, final answer I've accepted. What think you metaSOrs? …
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Ability to accept multiple answers [duplicate]

Good day ladies and gentlemen, I wonder how hard would it be to implement the possibility of accepting multiple answers, IT-wise. … Is it worthwhile to try to implement the feature of being able to select multiple correct answers? …
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Which answer do I accept if I have multiple correct answers?

I asked a question that turned out to have multiple correct answers. How do I pick between them to determine which to accept? All of the answers were different. … They were not the same answer given multiple times. …
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Should we warn the OP on attempts to accept multiple answers?

But please be aware that only one answer can be accepted; accepting a second answer un-accepts the previously accepted answer. … At your discretion you may accept exactly one answer that you think answers your question the best. The link would go to the site's specific /help/someone-answers page. …
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Awarding a bounty to an editor

As the system stands now, a bounty would reward the person who started the answer, not the later most worthy contributor. Related: Accept Multiple Answers or Split Bounty among Several Users. … But I don't want to split a bounty between multiple answers: I want to encourage people to improve the “canonical” answer, not to compete with it. …
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Does accepting multiple answers give points to each contribution?

If I choose an accepted answer, then revert my choice and accept someone else's. Which one gets the 15+ reputation? Is it both? Or only the first? …
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What is the [multiple-answers] tag for?

- a recent question edited to have the multiple-answers tag instead of the answers tag Answer count on feed items is wrong - using the tag to report a failure of the answer count to update when a new answer … was posted Which answer should I accept - using the tag to talk about a situation where two answers were posted to the same question, by different users It's probably also worth mentioning that this …
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Can I accept two answers given for my question? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Accept Multiple Answers or Split Bounty among Several Users I asked a file copying issue on Stack Overflow, and I got two answers that are both correct. … Can I accept both the answers? Please help me, I don't know more about accepting answers. …
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Multiple accepted answers wrongly indicated

Description: In a question with an accepted answer and lots of other answers, the app shows the green tick () next to many answers, indicating that there are multiple accepted answers. … Expected Results: Only the accepted answer should ha­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ve the green tick. …
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Accepting an answer when multiple "correct" answers

I've recently asked a question on meta to which I received four very useful and equally "correct" answers. Each added value; each was helpful to me. … Am I under any obligation to accept an answer, or can I just let it stand as is? …
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Why can't I post responses to my own question or accept multiple answers?

Why can I not accept more than 1 answer to my question? I think that is unfair when I cannot confirm that the help of two persons was neeeded? … Something has changed in my thread and when I had accepted one answer, other answers disappeared... why? …
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What are the badges I can earn on each site, and what are the exact criteria for earning eac...

The answer must be accepted by the question owner, and it mustn't be a self-accept. … (Source) Deleted answers are ignored Self-answers do count Nice Answer bronze; awarded multiple times Earn a score of 10 on one answer Good Answer silver; awarded multiple times Earn a score of 25 …

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