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How comes this question has three accepted answers (Paul's, tdammers', BalusC's)?

Bug, feature or is Firefox just cheating me (happening quite often lately)?

Edit (considering comments): more likely a bug according the time stamps on the second two check-marks

Edit 2: bug, probably caused by 2 other question being merged to that question (as noted by Shog9, see below).

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    This looks like an extension of this bug. That said, the timeline of that question has some really wonky stats in terms of acceptance.
    – Grace Note StaffMod
    Jan 28, 2011 at 20:39
  • Bug. If you look at the time stamps on the second two checkmarks, they are very wrong.
    – jjnguy
    Jan 28, 2011 at 20:39
  • I want to accept an answer too!
    – Pekka
    Jan 28, 2011 at 20:40
  • I'm pretty sure that shouldn't be possible. Given the accept times, I'm guessing Paul's is the real accepted answer.
    – Gelatin
    Jan 28, 2011 at 20:40
  • @Grace - yes, seams so, but the question referenced by that bug (now) only has one answer at all.
    – user141148
    Jan 28, 2011 at 21:01
  • Interesting, Carlos. The titular example, the other answer was deleted. Pop's example in the comments doesn't have any deleted answers but the acceptance was cleared. Strange, strange.
    – Grace Note StaffMod
    Jan 28, 2011 at 21:03
  • FWIW, two other questions were merged into that one... Normally, this doesn't result in multiple accepted answers, but in this case it appears that two folks got lucky!
    – Shog9
    Jan 28, 2011 at 21:13
  • I have a feeling though that this (the check marks showing) is a recent phenomenon. My bet is it's not more than a week or two old.
    – Pekka
    Jan 28, 2011 at 21:23
  • @Pekka - second that... I never noted it before. @Shog9 - thanks, seams like that is the source
    – user141148
    Jan 28, 2011 at 21:36
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    @Pekka, @Shog9 - you're both right, it is recent and it is with merges, see my answer below, the fix has already been deployed to correct existing and prevent it in future merges. Jan 28, 2011 at 22:07

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The problem here was a change I put in that stored Accepted answer directly on the answer...as a result of that and not considering question question merges, answers that were migrated (75 on SO) "carried over" the check with the merge.

A fix this this has been deployed, fixing the data and correcting the display to what it was previously.

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    Well done. Most new employees wait at least a month before breaking things, but you're ahead of the game already!
    – mmyers
    Jan 28, 2011 at 22:09
  • Any chance you broke the OR queries about an hour ago? Jan 29, 2011 at 0:43
  • @Hans - not that I'm aware of, are you having issues? Jan 29, 2011 at 0:57
  • It's doggone goofy, I'll try to document it when I see some kind of pattern. Jan 29, 2011 at 1:12

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