How do I give an accepted answer to my question if I cannot tell which of 2 answers is correct [duplicate]

Question

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What answer to accept?
How to choose which answer to accept?

Most of the time, Stack Exchange questions are fact based if they follow the format correctly and therefore it is quite easy to pick out the right answer. This is especially true if someone gives me a few lines of code that I can easily verify on my own machine, or at least a jsfiddle site. What should I do if I am unable to verify which of two differing answers is in fact the best one? The way a particular question is answered one of them has to be right (to some degree) and one of them wrong. My query here is meant to be answered for across sites and not necessarily specific to SO.

Answer 1

Well you should give the best answer award to the answer that solved your problem, not the best looking/ longest/ neatest answer.

If many answers solve your problem, you can try to select based on two things:

1. Which answer do you want future users to see when they have a problem similar to yours? Just pick the answer that best explains the solution.

2. If all the answers look the same, try picking the answer that was posted first. You can see when the answer was posted right above their profile picture, to the bottom right of their answer.

Answer 2

Accept the answer that is most useful to you, regardless of how well it answers the question as originally stated. Upvote all helpful answers.

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