To make this work, you have to make your question and answer look like other questions and answers on Stack Overflow.

1. Like Jeopardy, you must phrase it in the form of a question. Your question must follow the same formatting and guidelines for posting answers as everyone else's.
2. Answer your own question in the answer, following the usual Stack Overflow guidelines for answering.
3. You can accept your own answer two days after you post it.

To make this work, you have to make your question and answer look like other questions and answers on Stack Overflow.

1. Like Jeopardy, you must phrase it in the form of a question. Your question must follow the same formatting and guidelines for posting answers as everyone else's.
2. Answer your own question in the answer, following the usual Stack Overflow guidelines for answering.
3. You can accept your own answer two days after you post it.

Note that the debate about whether or not you can post an answer to your own question is a bit of a red herring; the "answer" you posted was not well-received because you didn't follow the Stack Overflow format: Questions are questions, answers are answers, and you didn't post a question.

Instead, you posted an answer where a question should be, to a question that... well, I don't even know what the question was.