Timeline for Sometimes show highest answer before accepted answer?
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| May 23, 2017 at 12:36 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Oct 4, 2014 at 2:21 | comment | added | Garrett | If you've ever read just the top (accepted) answer and found it to be an excellent answer which you then upvoted without reading the next few answers, then you'd be adding to the aforementioned effect. (I know I've done that before) | |
| Oct 4, 2014 at 2:19 | comment | added | Garrett | It's possible that answers at the top of the sorting tend to get more reads, and therefore more upvotes. So, in addition to putting an answer at the top, the check mark may insidiously be tricking the reader into thinking that the community agrees with the sorting. I don't have any data to prove this though, it's just a hunch. | |
| Oct 3, 2014 at 6:21 | comment | added | Garrett | @CareBear, thanks, my bad. | |
| Oct 3, 2014 at 6:16 | comment | added | user259867 | @Garrett Accepted self-answers do not gain priority in the display order, this has been the behavior for a long time. | |
| Oct 3, 2014 at 5:52 | comment | added | Garrett | On this page, the OP's tick mark seems not to have affected the sorting. The first answer I see is tfk's answer with 9 votes. Has Stack Exchange finally scrapped the infinite weighting of the tick mark? | |
| Apr 14, 2014 at 1:11 | answer | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | timeline score: 3 | |
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| Mar 23, 2014 at 14:49 | answer | added | Richard Tingle | timeline score: 12 | |
| S Mar 21, 2014 at 22:45 | history | bounty started | Caffeinated | ||
| S Mar 21, 2014 at 22:45 | history | notice added | Caffeinated | Improve details | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 20:25 | answer | added | Caffeinated | timeline score: 15 | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 18:22 | comment | added | Richard Tingle | Related but not a duplicate; can-we-exempt-downvoted-accepted-answers-from-getting-the-top-spot | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 18:21 | comment | added | Bill the Lizard Mod |
Ok, well I guess we do have over 10,000 accepted answers with a negative score, so I guess maybe something could be done in those cases where the accepted answer is probably wrong (and not just 2nd-best). </backpedal>
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| Mar 19, 2014 at 18:13 | comment | added | Caffeinated | Yeah I'm throwing in my vote also - the green check-mark need not show up before an obviously better answer(esp. if you say 20 votes or so) | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 18:08 | comment | added | Brad Larson Mod | Frankly, I'm tired of dealing with flags that want us to delete, uncheck, or otherwise remove wrong or outdated accepted answers because they're sorted ahead of higher-voted unaccepted ones. To anyone on the outside, this sort order makes no sense, and I think I now agree with them. | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 18:06 | comment | added | Brad Larson Mod | I'm with Pëkka on this, and would even go so far as to suggest that maybe we treat accept votes just like any other vote for sorting. It's already got the big old check mark there to denote which one is accepted, and I see no reason why one person's opinion should always cause something to be sorted above all other answers. | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 17:57 | comment | added | Bill the Lizard Mod | You might now be up to flipping the top two answers on about 1% of questions. (Also, the lower you make the ratio, the closer you get to the point where the accepted answer isn't wrong, it just isn't the best answer.) | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 17:52 | comment | added | drew_w | @BilltheLizard The number of questions this feature applies to depends on how you implement the rules. I revised the idea to apply to more questions (by taking out the 20+ rule). Either way the idea might make some sense... | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 17:50 | history | edited | drew_w | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Revised the rule for the feature to make it applicable to more questions
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| Mar 19, 2014 at 17:46 | comment | added | Pekka | This suggestion has been made before so it's a dupe, but I unequivocally support it and am always dumbfounded about the opposition to it. There's nothing more embarrassing for the site than an incorrect accepted answer. There's plenty of those, and the general consensus is the check mark isn't that important. Why should it make a difference in the sort order then? | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 17:45 | comment | added | Richard Tingle | Personally I would support removing the accepted answers sort order privileges all together so I can get behind this | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 17:44 | comment | added | drew_w | I added more of my thought process. I'm not sure if this is a good feature or not - maybe its just something to think about? | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 17:44 | history | edited | drew_w | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Further explanation provided for the idea
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| Mar 19, 2014 at 17:42 | comment | added | Bill the Lizard Mod | The most popular answer already appears right below the accepted one. The Populist badge has been awarded fewer than 5000 times. Is it really worth it to implement a feature that will flip the order of the top two answers on less than 0.1% of questions? | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 17:41 | comment | added | drew_w | @RobertHarvey Thank you for the feedback! I didn't realize that is how this site works. I'm trying to be active on stack but I am just figuring out how this site works. Thanks! | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 17:41 | comment | added | Martijn Pieters | Why should a popular answer be listed before the accepted answer? Apart from self-answers, that's the OP's only privilege, to pick an answer that is listed first. Yes, the OP can be wrong, but you always look at the other answers too, right? | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 17:40 | comment | added | user102937 | Part of the problem with your feature request is that it will only work on popular questions, a small percentage of the question base. | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 17:39 | comment | added | user102937 | It's a Feature Request. The community will vote on your question based on whether they agree or disagree with the feature. | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 17:39 | comment | added | Martijn Pieters | See the help center; votes on MSO are different from the regular Stack Exchange websites. People are voting on your feature request. | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 17:34 | history | edited | drew_w | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Clarified the question slightly
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| Mar 19, 2014 at 17:33 | history | edited | Servy |
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| Mar 19, 2014 at 17:31 | history | asked | drew_w | CC BY-SA 3.0 |