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42 questions linked to/from Discourage questions being marked as answered within an hour or so of being posted
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Why does StackOverflow make you wait 2-x minutes before you can accept an answer? [duplicate]
Hi,
It is kind of an annoying feature that I have to wait to accept an answer after I upvote it. Why is it done like that?
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Why do you have to wait 8 minutes before you can accept an answer? [duplicate]
A user wants to accept an answer, but he can't, because of a delay of 8 minutes. Why must he wait?
See the comment at the bottom of my answer, please.
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Why is there a 15 minute timer until you can accept an answer? [duplicate]
Sometimes, you ask a question and you are lucky enough to get an answer in one or two minutes. I don't understand why I have to wait for 15 minutes before I can accept the answer if it solves my ...
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Why does it sometimes take 10 minutes before one can accept a valid answer? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Discourage questions being marked as answered within an hour or so of being posted
“You must wait X minutes to accept an answer” When did this happen?
Is this a ...
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Fastest Gun in the West Problem
I feel like there's a problem with Stack Overflow, as the number of people prowling it increases.
Each question's answers are sorted by descending score and then by descending time of posting. This ...
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Recent feature changes to Stack Exchange
This is an unofficial list/changelog of new features and various changes to Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network.
It is maintained by the community, while a Stack Exchange employee changes ...
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The Complete Rate-Limiting Guide
I noticed that I can only perform certain actions such as commenting a finite number of times in a given period of time. Obviously, rate limiting is in place to prevent accidental misuse or ...
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Is accepting an answer discouraging more answers?
Sometimes I read a question that has an accepted answer, and I feel I won't add any value if I answer.
Should one wait to accept an answer in order not to discourage a potentially better answer?
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Why is there a time limit/ waiting period before accepting an answer?
Why is there a 15 minute waiting period before allowing users to accept an answer on Stack Exchange?
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Allow me to accept an answer immediately
I hate the new popup "you can accept an answer in 10 minutes". Can you please remove it and let me accept an answer immediately?
I can unaccept it later if a better one appears.
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Given two [practically] identical [useful] answers, which answer do you vote for?
Given two practically identical answers, which answer do you vote for?
Do you vote for:
Both?
The Lower Rep user?
The Higher Rep user?
The First one to Post (usually they're separated by seconds, ...
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What actions are rate-limited, and why? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
The Complete Rate-Limiting Guide
I've seen a number of time delay notifications on the sites. E.g.:
you can only comment every x seconds
What are all the situations that ...
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When a question is posted, can we advise the poster to hang around and respond to comments?
Many times I've noticed that when a question is posted on SO, comments requesting more information appear within minutes, but the OP has apparently disappeared.
It seems to me that in return for ...
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Was a question asked in the future?
How is it possible that a question was asked "-1s ago"?
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Update:
The servers seem to be even 6 (or more?) seconds out of sync:
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Can we stop rushing people to accept an answer?
While it's worse when the author of the answer bugs the OP to accept their answer (for whatever reason - maybe they don't now there's a waiting period, maybe they don't know the asker knows how to ...
Aaron BertrandStaff
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