Possible solution for (accidentally) not upvoting accepted answer

Question

I have searched the site and found there is already a question about this: Accepting answer without upvoting? but it is already 4 years old.

In my opinion, Auto-upvote should be in place and here is the full solution, does anyone know why this is still not in place? :P

Improve even without Auto-Upvoting:

1. For new users (thanks to @psubsee2003) (rep. less than *** or never upvoted..) Highlight the upvote function and show tips like "you can upvote the answer if you think it's helpful" upon user accepting an answer.
2. Send reminder to user without enough Rep/vote, to upvote an already accepted answer, when they get enough Rep/vote.

Possible problems with Auto-Upvoting:

1. User don't have enough Rep to upvote
2. User don't have any vote left
3. User don't really want to upvote

Solutions:

1. Auto upvote the question that is accepted when they do get enough Rep. and send them a notice asking if they want to undo the upvote.
2. Auto upvote the question next day, and send them a notice asking if they want to undo.
3. Highlight the upvote and user can undo it upon marking as accepted. (this is not a problem compared with how user will never know they can upvote&accepted).

Answer 1

Upvotes and Accepted Answers mean 2 different things. Why does one have to automatically mean the other.

Upvoting means "This answer is useful"

An accepted answer means "This is the best answer"

It is probably a rare occurrence, but what if an answer is the "best answer" but not helpful as the voter/OP chooses to define helpful. The definition of when to upvote/downvote is intentionally left vague and the burden of deciding what a vote means has been left to each individual user.

So by forcing an upvote when they accept an answer, you are in fact telling the OP what his/her vote means, and there are plenty in the community who will not like that (including myself - for the record, I usually upvote answers I accept, but because I think they are worth the upvote, not because I have to upvote).

Just because I can undo the automatic upvote doesn't mean that I will remember. What if I forget and my vote becomes locked in? Now I have to edit to undo my vote.

And the suggestion of auto-upvoting the next day or in the future when the poster has the necessary privileges to do so, or because I used up my votes - now I have to remember to go back and undo the posts I don't want to upvote. A notification in the Super-Collider Multi Dropdown is not going to be helpful for some very heavy users as they will get enough notifications that a reminder to un-upvote a post could get missed.

Basically, it seems like you are trying to "improve" an experience by forcing a behavior on everyone (and making their experience more complicated) just to teach new users that they can upvote. Frankly, I think a badge or one of the reminders/notices you suggested would serve this purpose just as well without forcing something on everyone else.

Answer 2

Possible problems with upvoting?

That not because Stackexchange don't want people to upvotes answers, its just to prevent spam! Any user can account and upvote an answer or keep upvoting other answers without any limit!

And also, why would system auto upvote?

In help of this site, and at stackexchange its clearly told that: "Upvotes are used to show that these questions contain content that is helpfull" and the Mark As Answers differ from Upvotes because Mark as answer means that this answer worked for the post owner. So, this way upvotes and mark as answer differ in a lot manners!

Ok, the suggestions will be something like: You give me loan, I will notify you tomorrow to get it back if you want!

That's something like you are asking Stackoverflow to provide the user will a facility to give or get loans from users. that's even not allowed :D However, I do like that one! :) To allow the users some cookie to have and pay for it when they have some. But when the user gets 15 points, do he really need to get 10+?

And the second thing of yours, to let the user Upvote on his questions once he gets enough rep, That's the thing! I like that one. But Stackoverflow lacks it. Your future-request tag will be helpfull buddy.