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The system allows you to mark an answer as "accepted", in order to indicate which answer solved your problem or most thoroughly answered your question in the end. Accepting an answer is beneficial as it rewards posters for correctly answering your question and informs others that your issue is resolved. On some sites (see this post), it also pins the answer to the top so others reading your question read that answer first.

• Accepting your own answer won't award you any reputation.
• The question must be at least 48 hours old before you can accept a self-answer.
• Self-answers that are accepted will never be pinned to the top, even if the site is configured to pin accepted answers to the top.

The system allows you to mark an answer as "accepted", in order to indicate which answer solved your problem or most thoroughly answered your question in the end. Accepting an answer is beneficial as it rewards posters for correctly answering your question and informs others that your issue is resolved. On most sites (except Stack Overflow and some other sites), it also pins the answer to the top so others reading your question read that answer first.

• Accepting your own answer won't award you any reputation.
• The question must be at least 48 hours old before you can accept a self-answer.
• Self-answers that are accepted will never be pinned to the top.

The system allows you to mark an answer as "accepted", in order to indicate which answer solved your problem or most thoroughly answered your question in the end. Accepting an answer is beneficial as it rewards posters for correctly answering your question and informs others that your issue is resolved. On all sites except Stack Overflow, it also pins the answer to the top so others reading your question read that answer first.

The system allows you to mark an answer as "accepted", in order to indicate which answer solved your problem or most thoroughly answered your question in the end. Accepting an answer is beneficial as it rewards posters for correctly answering your question and informs others that your issue is resolved. On some sites (see this post), it also pins the answer to the top so others reading your question read that answer first.