Questions without accepted answers and left for months as such flummoxes people.

Question

I found that many newcomers , come , ask question, for which they get a number of answers . But they don't care about accepting an answer . My doubt is , is there not even a single answer that is acceptable ? . ok there might be chances for that . But the way they communicate with people who answered (in the comment section) with words like " Thanks " " yes I was searching for this answer only " and so on , makes me feel that they are satisfied with that answer at least. But still they don't accept answers . If they have a reason why they haven't accepted answers , they should let others know what they actually expect , so that they get the answers they want . Even this is missing .

What should we do in such a case ?

1) Is it right to comment below their question as a reminder for them to accept an answer and close as it perplexes people who later search and come to such questions .Or will such a comment be considered silly ?

2) Is there not a need for the site to send such reminders . Because this can help them in case they have forgotten it .

3) Or is there a need to give rights to some very top reputation users to do this . Because except in some cases ,in all other case everyone knows that an answer is 100 % right .

Please clarify .

Above all , one thing which I am sure about is "questions with 0 unaccepted answers , flummoxes users who search answers for a similar question ."

Answer 1

I think that the phenomenon has been already discussed a lot, and my own perception of it changed considerably over time.

1. I would not consider such a comment silly at all, although it is a bit better when it is made not by one of the answerers.

2. As you say yourself, most of these cases come from one-day one-question users, and for them automatic reminders will have almost no effect. (Of course there are exceptions, including askers with hundreds of questions that have been here for years, but they are in my opinion negligible).

3. I would be strongly opposed to that. Green mark bonus is not intended to attest correctness of the answer (for that we have votes, comments, and alternative answers) but its appreciation by the asker. That's why accepted answer is not always the best - quite often it can be even completely wrong.