Questions tagged [accepted-answer]
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Highest voted answer auto-accepted after length of time
I have a suggestion: After a certain set amount of time automatically mark the question with the most upvotes as the accepted answer. Many of us have experienced this: You answer a question posted by ...
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There's no way to mark a question solved when you figure it out yourself.
If I ask a question that nobody else is able to answer, and I later figure it out, then there is no way for me to mark the question as answered. It will be marked unaccepted forever. I consider this ...
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Why are the accepted answers always on the top of the answer list?
Currently (from what I can see) the rules for ordering the answers in a question is:
Accepted answer (no matter what votes it has)
Answer with most votes numbers below the accepted answer
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Why wasn't I reminded to consider accepting the answer to my question that I upvoted?
I upvoted Marco Ceppi's answer to this question of mine here on meta. But I am waiting on accepting the answer until it provides more of the information I had requested. I had posted a comment to this ...
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How to handle answer and bounty for initially incomplete question?
Can someone tell me what's the best way to handle the answer to this question considering that it wasn't accurate when I asked it?
Should I post my own answer and accept it? Should I award the ...
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