Timeline for Is it wrong to ask a user to accept an answer?
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| Sep 27, 2017 at 4:43 | comment | added | Jonas Meyer | @Wildcard: I am not sure what "the question is marked as 'resolved'". means.There is an "unanswered" designation that is only for questions with no answers with positive scores. So the acceptance would only resolve that if the answer (or some answer) didn't already have a score of 1 or higher. Maybe that is common?Perhaps you also refer to the different coloration that shows the question has an accepted answer when you happen to see it in a list? I like your wording better, and agree that generally accepting some good thorough answer is good, but typically don't see the point in requesting it. | |
| Sep 27, 2017 at 4:06 | comment | added | Wildcard | @JonasMeyer, then you just say, "Great, glad it was helpful! Please accept an answer with the checkmark to the left (either my answer or another one) so the question is marked as 'resolved' in the system." Or something like that. | |
| Mar 29, 2017 at 22:38 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | Note to newcomers – back in 2012, the site had something called "accept rate", to which Parth Kohli is referring, but that statistic passed on some years ago. | |
| Mar 29, 2017 at 14:49 | comment | added | Jonas Meyer | "and you think that it is best amongst the others"--maybe I'm uptight, but it generally seems more tactful to leave others to decide that (although if there are things bad or incorrect about other answers it should be pointed out, voted on (although I'm extra hesitant to downvote on "competing" answers due to potential bias), etc.). Comments asking for acceptance might be helpful for users who don't know about it yet, but to me it often induces mild eye rolling. | |
| Jul 17, 2013 at 9:19 | vote | accept | Michael Albanese | ||
| Dec 27, 2012 at 13:10 | history | answered | P.K. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |