Timeline for Let's stop displaying a user's accept rate
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| Aug 19, 2020 at 14:21 | comment | added | Joe Beck | Fast forward to 2020... Some OP's will comment, "Thanks, that's it!" But they never accept or upvote the answer. Now, people cannot quickly see the bright green check mark to instantly know there's a definite fix to the question. Acceptance rate is just a stat. The word "shame' is played out. Everything is 'shame" nowadays. It's absurd. | |
| Mar 9, 2019 at 8:23 | comment | added | Jagger | Worst decision ever. | |
| Oct 20, 2014 at 17:07 | comment | added | user259867 | @StephenKennedy This would be better as a new feature request, not as a comment on an old post. Anyway: you can find it through the API. For example, here is a bookmarklet that shows accept rate of question asker, when it's used on the question page. (E.g., on this page it shows that Bart has 97% accept rate). Of course, this does not serve the purpose of reminding, since one has to remember to go look for the data in the first place. | |
| Oct 20, 2014 at 16:57 | comment | added | Stephen Kennedy | If you're still tracking it, could we please see our own accept rates in our profiles? It might be a helpful reminder that accepting right answers is important. (That's if its not already there. I can't see it.) | |
| Feb 3, 2014 at 4:53 | comment | added | msh210 | Accept-rate implementation. | |
| Jul 29, 2013 at 7:18 | comment | added | TtT23 | Let's be realistic. While the focus on improving the content of the site and helping out other users regardless of the accept rate is commendable, most people take the time to answer a question because they have something to gain from it, not because of sense of altruism. This change will only cause those people to be a lot more reluctant on answering questions from new users. | |
| Mar 10, 2013 at 13:56 | comment | added | Maarten Bodewes | I'm glad the maintainers got to some kind of consensus, but at the moment I'm at a stage where I cannot really determine if the questioner is any good at what he is doing. This left me on quite a number of mindless goose chases, especially regarding long winding questions (and regarding crypto, there are many hard to follow questions). Reputation is a very bad indicator for this, accept rate was much better. Maybe you can find some other way for me to get information about the users past behavior, spitting through the users profile takes too much time. | |
| Feb 26, 2013 at 21:20 | comment | added | Tim Schmelter | @Jens: Nobody needs to have 100%. Personally, if i see users with 100% and many questions i have the feeling that these people accept answers arbitrarily. So while it's desirable to keep it high because it shows that you care about the people who spend their time to help you and it also shows the high quality of your questions(since you get good response), it's not essential to have 100%. For what it's worth, i'm also strongly opposed to this change for the same reasons as Konrad Rudolph. | |
| Feb 12, 2013 at 21:29 | comment | added | Brett McCann | For those who prefer not to answer questions of those users with low accept rates, I think one thing to consider is that you are not only punishing them, but other users who could have benefited from your answer. If it was a good question, that means there are others, possible good members of the SO community, who have the same question, who could have benefited from your knowledge. | |
| Feb 12, 2013 at 16:06 | comment | added | Jens | @DJDavid98: That's another point: I felt obligated to accept very poor answers just to keep this number at 100%!. | |
| Feb 2, 2013 at 3:28 | comment | added | Dr.Molle | Focus on content? The information if an answer was helpful is a very important detail of the content(if it is not so, why not simply remove the option to accept an answer). Users which do not find it necessary to decide if their question has been answered, don't worry about the "content". Don't focus on users? Let's remove reputation, badges, custom user-names, aboutme. | |
| Jan 27, 2013 at 7:57 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @msh210: Do decide! The following paragraph in the FAQ explains why this is a good thing and what accepting answers means. Also see meta.stackexchange.com/questions/28276/what-answer-to-accept | |
| Jan 27, 2013 at 7:20 | comment | added | msh210 | @LightnessRacesinOrbit, right. Implication: if you haven't so decided, then don't "draw straws". | |
| Jan 27, 2013 at 4:42 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit |
@msh210: The FAQ you helpfully linked us to (thanks for saving me the trouble) says: When you have decided which answer is the most helpful to you, mark it as the accepted answer by clicking on the check box outline to the left of the answer. Thanks.
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| Jan 27, 2013 at 4:28 | comment | added | msh210 | @LightnessRacesinOrbit, there's no advice or policy about when to accept and when not to in the FAQ list or the site infrastructure. If you wish to appeal to "every" meta question about accepting answers or to precedent (sic) you'll need to specify. | |
| Jan 27, 2013 at 3:04 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @msh210: Um, the FAQ, every meta question about accepting answers, precedence, the infrastructure of the site, .. | |
| Jan 27, 2013 at 2:42 | comment | added | msh210 | @LightnessRacesinOrbit, why? Or, if you can only appeal to authority and not cite a reason, then: says who? | |
| Jan 26, 2013 at 20:08 | comment | added | Lightness Races in Orbit | @msh210: You should still pick an answer to be accepted. If there are multiple candidates with equal weight, draw straws. | |
| Jan 24, 2013 at 7:16 | comment | added | msh210 | (Re the above comments. (Ping @SethJ, for one.)) The SE site on which I'm most active is Mi Yodeya and I confess to having a fairly low accept rate (generally hovering around 50%). This is partially because, on that site, many a question has a plurality of answers that are deserving of being accepted. (And it's partially because I was incompletely satisfied with the answers I got to some questions.) Any time I was completely satisfied with one and only one answer, I accepted it. (Just one user's data point.) | |
| Jan 23, 2013 at 18:26 | comment | added | user7116 | Choosing an answer is not analogous to a "Thank You". If the answer does not help it should not be chosen. "Thank You's" are superfluous and distracting. | |
| Jan 23, 2013 at 16:13 | comment | added | Seth J | @Bart, that's why I said I hesitate. If it's in the best interests of the community and I can provide the best answer, or an important insight that's been missed by others, I still answer. But if it's something I could answer but don't feel particularly compelled to put in the research required, and I see that the guy has a 0% (or worse, IMO, 20% - bc someone with 0% might not know about accepting as being good practice) accept rate, I might not bother. | |
| Jan 23, 2013 at 14:52 | comment | added | Bart | @Manishearth This comment refers to my earlier comment asking the same question. That might be a bit of a missed opportunity. But let's see how things go. | |
| Jan 23, 2013 at 14:40 | comment | added | Bart | @SethJ If that help was in the best interest of the company I work for, yes, I would help that colleague. Likewise I would answer a good question from a user who doesn't accept all that much because the community might be well-served by it (and in turn repay me handsomely). | |
| Jan 23, 2013 at 14:32 | comment | added | casperOne | @jalf Agreed. Like most actions on Stack Overflow, you should focus on the content, not the user. | |
| Jan 23, 2013 at 14:32 | comment | added | casperOne | @Bart They already were at certain points, which is why the comments were noise in the first place. | |
| Jan 23, 2013 at 14:22 | comment | added | Manishearth | I like this, though I'd like to know one thing: aside from the prompt a user gets after upvoting an answer, is there any in-built prompt asking users to accept more answers if they have a low accept rate? | |
| Jan 23, 2013 at 10:07 | comment | added | jalf | @KonradRudolph then don't. Expend effort for your own sake: is it a fun, interesting question or not? Who cares about the OP? ;) | |
| Jan 23, 2013 at 10:07 | comment | added | Bart | @KonradRudolph Because the excellent help you provide might help out far more users than this single OP asking the question. | |
| Jan 23, 2013 at 10:03 | comment | added | Konrad Rudolph | @jalf I don’t withhold anything, I just don’t see why I should expend effort for somebody who clearly doesn’t. | |
| Jan 23, 2013 at 10:00 | comment | added | jalf | @KonradRudolph Eh, on the other hand, I'm not interested in SO as a tool for moral judgment. If people ask a question, I'll answer if I have time and find the question interesting. What they "deserve" doesn't really come into it, and I'd be suspicious of anyone who withholds information on that basis. | |
| Jan 23, 2013 at 9:15 | comment | added | BoltClock's a Unicorn | @Bart: Not that I know of. | |
| Jan 23, 2013 at 9:14 | comment | added | Bart | @BoltClock'saUnicorn (or Kevin or any mod) Any idea on whether or not the user will now be poked behind the scenes, by the system, to make sure they put a reasonable effort into accepting an answer? I.e. "You've received several answers, please evaluate"? | |
| Jan 23, 2013 at 3:28 | comment | added | A--C | @NullUserExceptionอ_อ I wouldn't say that this would have too much effect on people - usually people who don't accept answers aren't going to accept even if you do remind them. But now, I suspect that answerers will be a little more high strung; making sure that the OP accepted an answer and the like. Good or bad? We'll see :-) | |
| Jan 22, 2013 at 21:46 | vote | accept | Bart | ||
| Jan 22, 2013 at 21:44 | history | answered | Kevin Montrose | CC BY-SA 3.0 |