Timeline for How about being able to take-over existing questions made by inactive users?
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| May 21, 2014 at 9:11 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | You're still failing to explain why this is needed. | |
| May 11, 2014 at 18:02 | comment | added | sorin | I would not say this, I would say: if the author does not react (ever, or a long period of time) to anything that happens to a specific question, we can assume that he will never react. This can happen for a huge number of reasons: death, lack of interest, temporary accounts, ... What I would consider in cases like this is that SE could try to notify the author asking for an update, and if it does not respond, the question could be considered abandoned (so somebody else could take it over). | |
| May 11, 2014 at 17:59 | comment | added | Bill the Lizard | @sorin The problem is really in assuming that the answer might not be good just because it's not accepted. An accepted answer can be wrong, and an answer that's not accepted can be perfectly good. The extra bit of information from an answer being accepted really isn't necessary, just nice to have. I don't think we'd gain much by taking over old questions just so someone can accept answers. | |
| May 11, 2014 at 17:55 | comment | added | sorin | I updated the question, the problem is: questions that do appear as not being answered and which do really have answers. While browsing them it's confusing because, one would assume that the answers were not good, when in fact the only reason is that the original user lost interest. I would call it the "temporary account syndrome". | |
| May 11, 2014 at 17:52 | comment | added | Bill the Lizard | @sorin What exactly is the problem there? | |
| May 11, 2014 at 17:50 | comment | added | sorin | Here is an example that we can use as a use-case. Can we find a solution for this kind of problem? superuser.com/questions/532784/… -- Having votes clearly does not indicate it as answered. You can look at this screenshot. | |
| May 11, 2014 at 17:48 | history | answered | Bill the Lizard | CC BY-SA 3.0 |