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A metric previously shown on user cards on posts which indicated the percentage of questions for which the user has accepted an answer.

23 votes
4 answers
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Should I accept wrong answers to boost my accept rate?

I have posted questions on SO for which I have received answers that do not answer the question. No correct answers were offered (I guess I have really good questions ;) ) People tell me my accept ...
JNF's user avatar
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3 votes
1 answer
166 views

How do I specify that an answer is not the answer and thus maintain my 100% accept rate [closed]

I'd really like to keep my 100% accept rate. But one question I asked has a great suggestion in the comments, but the answer supplied misreads the question, as the author admits in the comments. The ...
dumbledad's user avatar
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-15 votes
1 answer
328 views

Remove the user accept rate, since it is damaging the viability of Stack Overflow [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Accept rate usefulness I have an accept rate of 52% and people are telling me they do not want to answer my questions because it is too low. So I would be forced to accept ...
Aperture's user avatar
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8 votes
2 answers
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Is/Should your accept rate be affected if there is one bad (downvoted) answer?

I was just curious about this as I currently have a question that only has one answer, and it already has a -1. Now, this question is new, so I am hopeful that somebody will respond appropriately. ...
Justin Pihony's user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
83 views

The faq says nothing about accepting answers and accept rate? [closed]

I vaguely remember that this used to be part of the FAQ. However it isn't (anymore). Occasionally people remind askers about accepting answers, especially in the light of poor accept rates. Being able ...
Abel's user avatar
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3 votes
1 answer
116 views

100% accept rate on meta when not all questions have marked answers

How is it possible that my MSO accept rate is 100% when I've only accepted 7 of 10 (now 11) questions? I realize the accept rate on MSO is considered to be completely than on other SE sites but is the ...
M.Babcock's user avatar
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22 votes
1 answer
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Responding to comments about 0% accept rate when I have no satisfactory answers [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How does accepting an answer work? Accept rate-why accept an answer that isn't an answer? I had a 0% accept rate up until a few minutes ago, purely because I have not ...
darryn.ten's user avatar
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1 vote
1 answer
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Improving the acceptance criteria?

How to improve the acceptance criteria in cases when you ask 2-3 questions and none have got a correct response which solves the issue. How is the acceptance criteria calculated, are all these things ...
Bijendra's user avatar
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0 votes
2 answers
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discussion: accept rate: zero habit of not answering? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Are people less tolerant of questions from users with a low accept rate? Hy, I always wondered if there is some "habit" around stackoverflow of not answering if somebody has ...
EvilP's user avatar
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1 vote
1 answer
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Why isn't the accept rate being shown for all users on Meta Stack Overflow? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How does accept rate work? I noticed that there is no accept rate for all users in Meta Stack Overflow why? But I can accept answers for my questions.
Padma Kumar's user avatar
8 votes
4 answers
548 views

Remove accept rate display from questions, move it to the profile page [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Let’s stop displaying a user’s accept rate I know this is a bold proposal: I suggest we do not display the "Accept Rate" on questions under the user name. It has no ...
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0 votes
4 answers
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How to accept unanswered questions [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How does accepting an answer work? How does accept rate work? If noone answers a question that I post, I can't accept an answer. But then my accept rate sinks, and that ...
Ant Kutschera's user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
552 views

What happens when you don't get a proper answer, or no answer at all?

I would like to know what will happen to my reputation and accept rate when: I asked a question and: I didn't get a proper answer (so I can't accept one). I'm not getting any replies at all. Same ...
sameera207's user avatar
-24 votes
1 answer
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Guaranteed Acceptance Seal

Now the current pattern for the Acceptance rate is having a percentage and a color. Green being the most acceptance rate and red or ash for the worst acceptance rates. How about adding a seal for say ...
bragboy's user avatar
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1 vote
1 answer
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Acceptance rate is missing for a certain user

Why is the acceptance rate of this user not displayed? He has 9 questions, all with answers, two of them accepted, should be a rate of about 22%. I checked the 3 newest questions, on none of them ...
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