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41No, don't think that's a good thing. There are valid cases when the OP use the given code and at first glance it works but after some hour/days/weeks he suddenly find a severe bug in the given solution or understand it's not what he needs after all. In such cases, he should be able to unaccept, put a comment and wait for either a fix or new answer.– Shadow WizardCommented Feb 3, 2013 at 9:56
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8How about limiting this action, the same way we limit own-post-edits to five a day?– J. SteenCommented Feb 3, 2013 at 9:59
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1@J.Steen great minds think alike! Was just posting this, though 3 per day is more than enough.– Shadow WizardCommented Feb 3, 2013 at 9:59
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Maybe an answer looked right so was accepted but then late on getting it out it turns out it doesn't work after all. You'd probably want to unaccept, but with no correct one there's nothing else to mark as correct. Fringe case, yes, but not unlikely. Perhaps in that event such answers should be flagged by the accepter requesting it be unaccepted (not that a mod can unaccept answers, but that's a different point)– JonWCommented Feb 3, 2013 at 10:00
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@J.Steen I doubt rate-limiting will do much. Nobody other than the OP can "undo" an unaccept. Whereas as edits can be undone by high-rep users, and deletions can be undone by moderators. So the OP can keep on unaccepting the maximum each day.– MysticialCommented Feb 3, 2013 at 10:00
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@Mysticial It might lead them to giving up on trying to unaccept all their questions' answer, since it's going to take several days. I dunno, really. This is rather strange behaviour.– J. SteenCommented Feb 3, 2013 at 10:02
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2@ShaWizDowArd I would set the time frame to a month or so. That should be enough time to find out if the answer is actually what you needed. As long as the acceptance is not yet a month old, you would still be able to remove it.– Mad ScientistCommented Feb 3, 2013 at 10:07
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1@Mad that sounds more reasonable, though I still feel uneasy to bind users' hands like this.– Shadow WizardCommented Feb 3, 2013 at 11:25
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@J.Steen: As we've seen in this question, one is enough. So rate limiting it hardly seems useful.– Lightness Races in OrbitCommented Feb 3, 2013 at 17:58
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