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The accept rate is a bad, one-dimensional proxy and I don't see any evidence whatsoever that it's a net positive, and even if so, whether the costs are worth it. (Some of the costs being qualitative, of course.)
– user154510
Commented Jun 20, 2012 at 19:38
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Regarding your third paragraph, accept rate is not calculated until the user has four or more qualifying questions: questions more than three days old, which have an answer posted.
– jscs
Commented Jun 27, 2012 at 17:50
@matt see my comment on Kevin's accepted answer here
– Jeff Atwood
Commented Jan 26, 2013 at 17:49
"people will anchor their evaluations on something before determining whether to read a question in-depth" - Precisely.
– Engineer
Commented May 18, 2017 at 17:45

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