Questions tagged [accepted-answer]

The accepted answer is the answer the question owner thought best met their needs. Accepting is encouraged but never required. This tag is for *discussing* issues related to accepted answers, not indicating that the tagged question *has* an accepted answer.

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Editing a question based on accepted answer

Sometimes, a user will ask a vague question, and an answerer says "I don't entirely understand your question, but I will assume you mean ___." The answerer then includes a re-written version of the ...
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Should MSE send reminders to users listing questions with no selected answer?

Many, many questions have good answers, ignored or forgotten by the OP. A significant part of the issue comes from users unfamiliar with the site and the basics of accepting an answer. Could MSE ...
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Confused with selecting an accepted answer.

Here all answers are very good [exclude mine if you want, which I added later]. One answer is very short and pretty to be accepted. One explicitly calculates the value. One does it without any high-...
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Timeline of an answer; acceptance

Can we see when an answer has been accepted in the timeline of that answer? (I've tried it, but to no avail.) If not, where can I see this?
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Minimum waiting time to accept answer

I have been seeing answers accepted a very short time after being posted. Waiting less than 24 hours means that people in some time zones may not have the opportunity to read a question before an ...
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A comment provides an answer and later answer is provided

I have got a short answer to my question in a comment, which was correct as here. Later, another user provided an answer, which was the same as the comment but with some additional details which were ...
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"Enlightened" Badge wrongly awarded

I just got the Enlightened badge for this answer, and I don't understand why. The description of the badge is: First to answer and accepted with score of 10 or more. I was indeed the first to ...
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No good answer, even with bounties.

Is it courteous to reward bounties or accept certain answers even when you don't feel any of the answers deserved the acceptance or bounties? I've found myself in the situation in the past, and I ...
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Users who do not accept answers [duplicate]

This question is related to Questions without accepted answers and left for months as such flummoxes people. but touches a different subject. I am asking you about your opinion on users who ...
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Accepting more than one answer

Why do we have to accept just one answer? I mean, in some questions there are lots of good answers which deserve to be accepted; why do we have a restriction on the number of accepted answers? I think ...
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Accepting answers : What to do when your question asked to check your solution to a problem?

I asked this question a few days back. An argument with my friend over $\bigcup [a+\frac{1}{n},b]$ I had asked this question to know whether I was right in my approach, which other users approved to ...
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Accepting answers

Someone recently commented on a question I posted "Please accept this answer so it doesn't add back to the queue"? How do I do this? I already gave a up vote for the answer.
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How to mark that a question has been solved?

I'm new here. I have posted a question here Question about n-simplex and its face And it has been solved, but I don't now how to mark a question indicating that it has been solved.
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Wrong reputation change

I saw this on my reputation changes for September 14, 2015: so I checked the three questions where I should have unaccepted answers. Since after a whole day the situation didn't change and the ...
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Possible bug with answer acceptance

On my profile summary at the moment I post this question it can be seen that my answer to this question is accepted. It has been like this for few hours. However, it can be seen in my reputation tab ...
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My question was turned into a community wiki - should/can I still pick a best answer?

A question I asked yesterday was recently turned into a community wiki question. Ok, no problem. I understand why that decision was made. Before that was done however, I was contemplating which of the ...
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Accepting an answer to my question

I've received a number of answers to my question here: Rearranging a formula, transpose for A2 - I'm lost two of them have the same number of votes. It appears that both answers (although ...
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Combining two correct answers

I have this question which asks for both the real and non-real solutions of an equation and the methods I could use for them. Problem is however, there is one correct answer on the real part, and ...
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Bounties awarded by a deleted user

As far I know, if a user is deleted, then all changes made by the user's up/down votes in everyone's reputation are reverted. What happens with reputation due to answers accepted by the deleted user,...
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Close/flag questions as answered

There are plenty of questions that are completely answered in the comments. If this happens to one of your own questions, you can follow Qiaochu's advice here: What should one do when one's question ...
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"Un-accepting" an answer?

[edited the formulation in Q3] After rereading the answer in "what is the correct terminology..." I notice that I did not really realized the contents of one comment, which even backed my own ...
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Answer pretends to be accepted but actually not.

The following answer is currently not accepted, but after enabling full site it is shown to be accepted. (on Android, Google chrome) Consider: Mobile view- Activity page: Mobile view- Profile page: ...
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What is the meaning of green in number of answers in a question list?

When I see the questions list, I see the questions with number of answers. Some of them (the numbers) are in green background and others are against normal white background. What is the difference? If ...
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Accepting least upvoted answers - Troll?

Suppose that a user does not genuinely accept the best answers on their questions, but instead accepts all the answers with the fewest upvotes. I appreciate the fact that everyone is free to choose ...
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Accepted answers are always displayed on top?

I always thought, that the accepted answer is displayed on top of the other answers, even if the others have more votes. This question seems to be a counterexample. Why is that? The timeline of the ...
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How to clean up after multiple questions were posted as one question, then reposted individually

A user asked a question with multiple unrelated parts (three problems and their answers from a book, which the OP wanted help in understanding). Someone advised that the different problems in this "...
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Is it good practice to edit an answer which has been accepted?

Sometimes after posting an answer I want to edit itā€”for example to correct typos, word something better, or plug some gap. Usually I just go ahead and edit, but I'm never quite sure what to do if the ...
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What do the green boxes mean?

Some posts have their vote count highlighted green, while others do not. What does this mean? Does it just mean that that post has a high amount of upvotes? Does it mean the post does not have a ...
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Allow the community to accept answers to abandoned questions

Often, someone asks a question, gets one or more good answers, and then leaves without ever accepting one. I would suggest that after a certain amount of time has passed that users of sufficiently ...
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Are there codified or at least customary acceptance criteria?

In this question, there are two answers, both of which I up-voted, but I didn't "accept" either since there didn't appear to be a reason why one stands out as clearly preferable to the other. ...
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How ethical is accepting an answer and then accepting another one later for the same question?

I am asking this question because I noticed how someone accepted an answer of mine and then "de-accepted" it and accepted another user's answer to the same question. My question is- is it OK to do so?
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Should I accept a good but incomplete answer?

My question Which spheres are fiber bundles? has one very nice response, but the response does not completely answer the question. I'd like to reward the response, but on the other hand I'd like to ...
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No reference to accepting answers in the FAQ

Seeing a user with a $0\%$ accept rate, I would like to point him to the relevant section of the FAQ, but it seems to be no reference to accepting answers in the FAQ. There is some other reference I ...
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How do you accept the right answer?

I just asked a question and three people gave 3 really good answers. Each of them is very useful and both the comments and answers help clear up a lot of things. How do I then go about choosing which ...
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Which answer to accept?

I posted a question here and got three very similar answers almost at the same time. I have got the answer to my question and found the answers helpful so I upvoted them all. But now I am confused as ...
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Who accepted this answer?

There is this migrated question on Transition Probability. Since the user has no Math.SE account, he's greyed out. But funnily the only answer given is accepted. By whom? By the user? Or was his ...
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Unchecking answers

I wonder whether unchecking an answer causes some loss of reputation to the answerer. A user that I hold in great esteem for his skills as a brilliant mathematician and a clear and patient teacher ...
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The help page on privileges doesn't mention accepting answers.

I've just checked the help page for privileges and it doesn't mention accepting answers. There was a discussion on meta about how to encourage newer users to accept answers when appropriate but the ...
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Answers being unaccepted

I'm fairly new to (Math) Stack Exchange, so I am hoping the community could shed some light on this: I answered a user's question, in a comprehensive manner, and the user up-voted and accepted my ...
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want other person to receive credit for their answer

Someone answered my math question, re zero area of a graph. I think their answer is brilliant and should be given points. However, after I "accepted" the answer, I found that my reputation was ...
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What can we do about answered questions with no accepted answers if user has left the site

Today I ran into this question which has an upvoted answer and judging from the comment by the asker, it helped them and answered the question. Unfortunately the answer wasn't accepted and the user ...
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About Accepted Rate

Throughout the Maths questions, we can see many answers which have not been voted as desired or corrected ones yet. Do we need an alert or something on the page notifying the questioners pick the best ...
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Why can't I accept an answer yet?

I tried to accept an answer on this question, and a message popped up saying "you may accept an answer in 12 minutes". Why is this the case?
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Can you award a bounty without accepting the answer

What happens if there are partial answers to a bounty question. Can you award a bounty without accepting the answer?
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Delete my old (and wrong) accepted answer [duplicate]

How do I delete this old answer of mine? Not only it's wrong but there's also a way better (and correct) answer below. Note: That answer is now moderator deleted. The OP of the Question involved ...
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Unaccepting an answer

I had accepted an answer which preceded another answer by about 1/2 hour. At the time, the answer I accepted seemed quite acceptable. Subsequently reviewing both answers weeks later, I can ...
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How to select a comment as an answer. [duplicate]

There is my question, here till now in both the answers there is not anything what I needed and so none of them is selected by me. In comments under both the answers I'm getting something new and ...
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I got two answers that I feel are of equal merit and answer the question... what do I do? [duplicate]

It appears that I can only accept a single answer but I really would like to reward the other answer-ers as well. I did give them an upvote but still I feel that there should be some mechanism to ...
Sidharth Ghoshal's user avatar
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How to flag a user for a strange behavior

I noticed a strange behavior from a user of Math SE, I have no means to contact him directly, so I thought of notifying moderators of the site by flagging(may be). There is nothing related to ...
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Accept no longer bumps?

It used to be the case that accepting an answer would bump the thread to the top (front page). Has this feature been removed? Last time I accepted a question it seems to have had no bumping effect. ...
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