Questions tagged [accepted-answer]
The accepted answer is the answer the question owner thought best met their needs. This tag is for discussing issues related to accepted answers, not indicating that a question has an accepted answer.
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Mark Self Answered postings accordingly
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I think it would be beneficial to mark self answered posts, where people only "ask" the question in order to share their knowledge/findings, in a way so that it is obvious to ...
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Accept vote isn't shown in an accepted answer's timeline [duplicate]
Checking the timeline of an accepted answer of mine, I can't see the accept vote for my answer.
As per https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/271754, it should be available:
The accept vote is available ...
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Fine art to hint somebody to accept an answer which was voted positively
I now had several times the situation that I provided an answer on Stack Overflow to a question from another user which was suited for having been the accepted answer.
My answer was either the only ...
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Clicking on the "accept answer" check mark is not a vote
Clicking on the "accept answer" check mark is not a vote from the user's standpoint, but this error message says so:
This post has been deleted; deleted posts can't be voted on
I would ...
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What is the goal of "accepted answer mark" [duplicate]
As in Would it be possible to have a "community accepted" feature?, votes can already mark better answer (though not always work especially when there are a lot of answers).
Then except for ...
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Accepted answer icon is out of alignment on highly scored answers
Over at Stack Overflow, there is a highly-scored, accepted answer with its accepted icon well out of alignment:
Also this answer, here on Meta:
Can we fix the alignment of the checkmarks to match ...
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Automatic bounty not awarded to an accepted answer [duplicate]
According to the current bounty documentation (November 2020):
How is a bounty awarded?
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If you do not award your bounty within 7 days (plus the grace period),
the highest voted answer created ...
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Should I mark this as the accepted answer?
I seem to run into this situation frequently where an answer is given which doesn't answer the question but gives me a clue from which I can find the answer.
I want to give the member credit for the ...
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Why does SO allow people to continue answering a question when one is accepted and highly voted up? [duplicate]
Simple question, title says it all.
For example I have a few posts where the answers that are accepted are highly voted up by the community, which indicates they are, based on my questions, vastly ...
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Why have all the "Have you considered accepting an answer or starting a bounty for this question?" reminders disappeared in my list of questions? [duplicate]
I remember seeing red messages like these when I look at my list of questions:
Have you considered accepting an answer or starting a bounty for this question?
But I have not seen these (annoying) ...
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Why are accepted answers now rendering with a dark green background? [closed]
At some point over the past few days, I've noticed that accepted answers across the network now have a green background, like this:
Why is that?
I'm running Chrome 84 on Windows 10, with ...
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Would it be nice to be able to hide questions where answers were accepted quickly? [duplicate]
For example someone asks a question and then accepts an answer a few minutes later.
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"0" in reputation history when accepting a self-answer with an upvote on the same day
When accepting a self-answer, this usually causes a blank entry in your reputation history (see the bottom circle below). However, when that happens on a day when you also get an upvote on that answer,...
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Is it discourteous to suggest a different answer be accepted? [duplicate]
Occasionally an answer could solve (or help solve) an asker's problem - and hence be accepted - but may not be beneficial to the community.
In cases where the answer is simply too specific, this can ...
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Re: tech questions where correct answers change over time - is there a way to show only the votes after a certain date?
Note: In an act of triage, this question was retitled and edited to become a request for technical support instead of a feature request - yet still be a question to match the high quality answer that ...
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Why is the "question eligible for bounty in x hours/days" link not shown when you accepted an answer?
When viewing your own question which isn't 48 hours old yet, you'll see a link "question eligible for bounty in x hours/days":
When you accept an answer, the link isn't shown. Is there any ...
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Checkmark option appears to be missing - can't accept answer! [duplicate]
I signed up yesterday and asked a question on StackOverflow - and received an answer within about an hour. But I can't find anyway to 'accept' it. I realize there's supposed to be checkmarks, but they'...
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Why does the accepted answer not come first? [duplicate]
On the question Unity Project doesn't have solution file, if you sort by "votes" or "active", the accepted answer (with the green checkmark) is not the top answer. (At least, this is what I am ...
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What are the different ways to mark the asked question as solved? [duplicate]
I want to know what are the ways to mark an asked question solved?
If someone has answered correctly and solved my doubt, then how do I mark it as my answer to question and also mark the whole ...
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Whose answer should you accept: Another person's or your own? [duplicate]
I asked a question about a programming problem and someone wrote a couple of comments, trying to help me find the source of the problem and even pointing out a problem with my code that was easy to ...
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Does/could/should SE prompt users harder to vote on and accept answers to their questions?
If I remember rightly, when I view a question to which I haven't yet accepted an answer, I sometimes see a reminder to accept an answer.
But I was wondering if SE sites could push users harder to ...
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Accept tickmark and Timeline icons are displayed in wrong Z-order on Review pages [duplicate]
Being on Review queue pages you can scroll the page while review block itself remains on the top of the page. In such situation some items from the reviewing post (e.g. accepted tickmark or timeline ...
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How bold should old accepted answers be edited when they become outdated? [duplicate]
Case in point:
How do you assert that a certain exception is thrown in JUnit 4 tests?
The accepted answer is not the best answer anymore, yet visitors to this page asking for this question are likely ...
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Selecting the answer - I'm sure this must have been asked [duplicate]
Quite soon, I'm going to select the answer to a question I've posted. I appreciate the way the current system works means I can only choose a single answer. What really struck me about this particular ...
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Warn new users that they cannot accept more than one answer
A typical error made by new users is trying to accept more than one answer to one of their questions. Therefore, I suggest that if a low reputation user (let us say, an user whose reputation is below ...
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Is it okay to mark an answer as 'Accepted' when I can't test it?
I asked a technical question on dba.stackexchange.com. I got a very good answer, but because I made many technical changes to my environment before I read the answer, I'm no longer in a position where ...
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Who controls 'accepting of answers' for questions of deleted users [duplicate]
I find several questions like mentioned here: Question of deleted user shown The question OP is not clickable (and often has a name like user123456) and is probably not existing anymore.
These ...
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I am asked to accept answers, and also when I do, users also asked why I accepted somebody's answer but not his
What can I do? Some users would say I need to accept answers.
Sometimes I don't know the topic enough to be certain which answer is the most correct. Also I don't want accepting an answer to ...
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Why didn't I get any bounty after the question was accepted? [duplicate]
I have answered a question, and after the bounty expired, I didn't get any bounty.
And the bounty was started by the question owner,
the question owner accepted an answer during the bounty period, ...
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Bountied reputation changes treated as accepted answers
I recently got a bounty here on SO:
how to round/remove traling ".0" zeros in pandas column?
But when I look at the summary page of my activity, it's colored green and it's the same color ...
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Which answer should I mark as correct - the first comments or the first answer?
After asking Player disappears when it collides with a tagged object, one user, in the comments section, asked one question and, with my answer, he asked another question and added a consideration ...
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What to do if someone has answered my question as a comment but not posted an answer? [duplicate]
For example, my question on math stackexchange got answered by somebody in the comments. Since you can't accept comments, what should I do now?
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How to deal with an accepted answer that is not answering the question? [duplicate]
I recently came across a question in Workplace SE where the accepted answer does not provide a solution to the question.
From the most upvoted comment on the answer,
I'm curious how this is the ...
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Why isn't this accepted non-self answer pinned on top?
I came across this question that practices the behavior: The accepted answer isn't submitted by the question asker, but it's not pinned on top. Why?
Note: For the sake of explanation, I removed ...
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Time is too fast in some Stack Exchange sites: change reward for accepted answers [closed]
In some sites, Stack Overflow being the most significant, a question without an accepted answer after a few minutes has a very high probability of never being answered.
Opening a bounty could ...
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I feel that lately the answers to my questions on Stack Exchange are low quality
I started using Stack Overflow1 a few years ago when I was learning c-sharp. I remember that when I was asking something, I was either getting a link to an existing question (duplicate or similar ...
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what happens and what should happen when an asker accepts a wrong answer? [duplicate]
In this question (about how to check version number for numpy), they answer accepted by the asker, as been commented by multiple people, as not being neither standard, nor the recommended method.
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Time of Accepted Answer in Stack Exchange Dump [duplicate]
I was looking into the Stack Exchange dump and wanted to try to get more information on when an accepted answer is declared. The Votes table had been suggested in a previous post since it has a type ...
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How to answer a question which already has acceptable answers and my answer will add at most 5% to the existing answers
Few hours ago I answered the question reading file without newlines in Python. The problem is that my answer is made up of existing answers with probably 5% tweak. I did it to facilitate future ...
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How does the notion of accepting answers handle cases that vary setup to setup? [duplicate]
The problem being:
an answer to a problem that works on my "machine" may not on yours, and what works on yours may not work on Person C's;
etc...
I'm wondering therefore whether it would be more ...
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Make negative score answers unacceptable
On politics.SE it happens annoyingly enough that someone asks a question which seems ok (i.e neutral and objective enough), but then they accept a hugely downvoted answer, e.g -20 relative score.
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Remind me to accept my own answer
I quite often find the solution to my problem alone (writing down the question helps, comments also help!), and when it happens, I usually end up writing an answer the same day.
Now, Stack Exchange ...
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Can we accept an answer more than 1 time? The reputation tab tooltip seems to think so
In the reputation tab, when hovering on the accepted answer, I can see the tooltip as "answer was accepted 1 time". It seems to imply that the answer can be accepted multiple times.
Wouldn't it be ...
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Populate the "UserId" field in "Votes" for Answer Accepts in SEDE
In the Stack Exchange Data Explorer (SEDE), votes are not recorded with the user that cast them, for privacy reasons, except in cases of bounties and favorite votes.
However, for answer accept votes ...
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Are we aiming for a single answer that covers everything about a question on Stack Exchange? [duplicate]
So I was thinking about why only one answer can be accepted to any particular question on Stack Exchange. I was thinking, most likely, so there would develop one answer that covers "everything" about ...
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Should we always accept a better answer, or also reward response speed? [duplicate]
Case in point here. Akrun gave a great answer in ~2 minutes. Grada's answer is slightly better (because it's simpler and more generalizable), but came in a little later (but still before Akrun's ...
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Can a bounty be awarded to a non-accepted answer? [duplicate]
I have a problem one of the users who asked awhile ago about something related to SQL injection. I provided an answer for his problem, and some solutions, but he did not accept my answer nor did he ...
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What should I do when answers contradict each other, but both sides seem correct?
I recently asked a question on the Politics Stack Exchange site, which I thought was a "Yes or No only" question and the first three answers where clearly stating no. I was about to accept an ...
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Should we remind users with a link to their question?
What this question is about:
It occurred to me that even experienced users occasionally forget that they either:
received viable answers to existing questions or
need to edit existing questions to ...
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Unable to close question because of "answer converted to comment"
I posted a question on Stack Overflow:
Postgres: Why did adding index slow down regexp queries?
Because of lack of reactions, I later posted the same question on DBA Stack Exchange:
Postgres: why did ...
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