A user recently pointed out a few questions with incredibly bad accepted answers on our site's meta asking us if there is anything we can do about it. I'm aware that users can delete answers if they have a sufficiently high reputation but I don't know if this privilege applies to accepted answers as well.
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Point us at one and we can try it...– dmckee --- ex-moderator kittenCommented Feb 4, 2012 at 20:43
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@dmckee: Took a while, but I finally found one here: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/45543/…– Borror0Commented Feb 4, 2012 at 21:16
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D'oh! I'm about 540 points short of being trusted on meta...– dmckee --- ex-moderator kittenCommented Feb 4, 2012 at 21:28
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1I believe you can vote to delete someone else's answer regardless of its accepted state, but not your own.– NullUserException อ_อCommented Feb 4, 2012 at 22:01
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@dmckee Well, here's one on SO.– a catCommented Feb 4, 2012 at 22:15
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Let's see...it accepted my vote.– dmckee --- ex-moderator kittenCommented Feb 4, 2012 at 22:21
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4Here's a bunch more for you guys to try out: data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/60842– Jeff MercadoCommented Feb 4, 2012 at 23:11
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2Here's one that is a definite "not an answer" and that the author requests removal of. I've voted to delete so two more votes?– Martin SmithCommented Feb 4, 2012 at 23:45
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This is probably the most "famous" accepted answer I can think of that should be put out of its misery this way: stackoverflow.com/questions/209170/…– Yi JiangCommented Feb 5, 2012 at 14:19
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Interesting, supposedly this isn't supposed to be possible: 20k users can vote to delete negatively voted accepted answers. I don't see any reason for it not to be, however.– jscsCommented Jan 28, 2013 at 6:14
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The answer to this question is "yes".
The question here used to have an accepted answer consisting entirely of the text
INCORRECT ANSWER REMOVED (if the OP unaccepts it, I'll delete it)
but this has now been successfully deleted by three 20K+ users.
answered Feb 5, 2012 at 11:05
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So did that automatically "unaccept" it, or does it show as a deleted answer with a checkmark?– a catCommented Feb 5, 2012 at 11:33
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It shows as a deleted answer with a checkmark. Does that mean the OP can't accept the other answer now if they were to get the urge? Commented Feb 5, 2012 at 11:45
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2The question does not have accepted answer now, you can see this here - so the OP should be able to accept other answer. But as he didn't bother for year and half I doubt he will do such effort now. Commented Feb 5, 2012 at 11:48
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3@MartinSmith You can accept other answers by just clicking their checkmark, which automatically removes it from the answer that had it, so I assume it'd work even if that answer is deleted.– a catCommented Feb 5, 2012 at 11:54
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Also, fun fact: You can't directly accept or unaccept a deleted answer because those count as a vote.– a catCommented Feb 5, 2012 at 12:03
