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What is an accept rate, and how does it work?
Hi I am a newcomer. Many people have helped me out many times. Recently I came to know about acceptance rate to reward my responders, but I don't know how...
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What is an accept rate, and how does it work?
Hi I am a newcomer. Many people have helped me out many times. Recently I came to know about acceptance rate to reward my responders, but I don't know how...
You ask a question and people answer. When you are happy with an answer you accept the answer. Sometimes you may not get a satisfying answer (rarely if you ask good questions!).
If you accept an answer for all of your questions your acceptance rate is 100%.
If you accept an answer for just half of you questions your acceptance rate is 50%.
To accept an answer you simply click the tick mark next to the large number of votes next to the answer (left column).
Your "acceptance rate" is a measure of the amount of questions for which you have accepted an answer. You can accept an answer by clicking the tick to the left of the answer.
There are several ways to reward responses:
The acceptance rate is only a statistical number to show others how many of your questions have accepted answers (in relation to your total question count).