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your concern looks reasonable - accepted answers immunity feels indeed slippery to me. As explained in hotness formula post, "accepted answers are a fine social contract, but not a good data point for question or answer quality" - meaning it doesn't really indicate a valuable content. I can imagine this as sort of protection for new users who might need time to get rep for upvote privilege, fine - but even then, I can't see how keeping zero-score, unattended answers is justified for more than, say, a year
– gnat
Commented Sep 25, 2013 at 15:08
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Yeah, bad questions with bad answers are still bad questions. "can I have a dollar.", should be deleted as offtopic not answered with "no"
– jmoreno
Commented Sep 6, 2015 at 18:14

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