Timeline for Why can you still vote and accept answers on closed questions?
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| Jun 11, 2012 at 18:07 | comment | added | Eliah Kagan | @Chan-HoSuh You may want to consider posting an answer based on your comments. | |
| Jun 8, 2012 at 19:57 | comment | added | Chan-Ho Suh | I just realized people responding here might might be overlooking that sometimes you can't tell whether an answer works unless it is accepted. | |
| Jun 8, 2012 at 19:41 | comment | added | Chan-Ho Suh | Your reasoning applies to non-dupes too, @belacqua, in the following way: there is no need for accepted answers since voters do the work and vote up good answers and vote down bad answers. But the reason we have accepting of answers is that it allows those asking to voice their opinion on what is the most helpful. My point is that there is no reason to take away this functionality from dupes just because of closure. | |
| Jun 8, 2012 at 17:44 | comment | added | belacqua | @Chan-HoSuh We do the work, and flag good answers for merging, so a moderator knows. If it's actually a terrible answer, it should get voted down anyway. | |
| Jun 8, 2012 at 12:34 | comment | added | Chan-Ho Suh | How does the person that's merging know which answer to merge, or realize (without a whole lot of effort) that there's even a good answer that maybe should be merged? | |
| Jun 8, 2012 at 11:07 | comment | added | coversnail | @Chan-HoSuh If the answer is great it should be merged with the duplicate, if the question is closed as off topic or not constructive then it shouldn't be possible to accept or give reputation as those answers won't be relevant. | |
| Jun 8, 2012 at 11:02 | comment | added | Chan-Ho Suh | Why not? The purpose of closing isn't to stop people from saying "This is a great answer that works for me"; it's to stop people from wasting their efforts duplicating answers and creating unnecessary splintering. If we don't delete answers to duplicates, it seems reasonable to allow them to be accepted. | |
| Jun 8, 2012 at 10:53 | comment | added | jrg Mod | Sounds like a quirk of the system to me. | |
| Jun 8, 2012 at 10:52 | history | asked | coversnail | CC BY-SA 3.0 |