Questions tagged [accept-rate]
A metric previously shown on user cards on posts which indicated the percentage of questions for which the user has accepted an answer.
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Why is accept rate more important for /review tasks than answers?
In Shog9's answer to a question about why the voting options have been removed from the \Review task beta, he explains:
The core philosophy here is that each queue focuses on a specific task
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How is it possible that a single user who is not a moderator can delete a comment?
On Drupal Answers, while taking care of some comment flags, I noticed that a comment written on March, 2012 is reported to be deleted by a single user today.
Notice that:
The user who seems to have ...
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Replace accept rate with citizenship level
I see that accept rate has now been removed from display on questions. I think this is not a great solution for reasons that waffles explained well. Take it away waffles!
On one hand accept rate ...
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I am asked to accept answers, and also when I do, users also asked why I accepted somebody's answer but not his
What can I do? Some users would say I need to accept answers.
Sometimes I don't know the topic enough to be certain which answer is the most correct. Also I don't want accepting an answer to ...
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Why accept an answer that isn't an answer? [closed]
First off, I like the idea of accept rate. I'm tired of giving good answers and not having them accepted. The idea of adding another incentive to accept answers was another great idea by SO.
I have ...
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Should I vote to "delete" one of my posts if it gets no replies, to avoid its effect on my "accept rate"? [closed]
Should I vote to "delete" one of my posts if it gets no replies, to avoid it affects my accept rate?
If not, what is recommended way to avoid negative impact on accept rate?
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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 ...
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New phenomenon: Rage Unaccepting
Now that accept rate is no longer displayed users can silently unaccept answers without anyone noticing.
I happened to notice by chance that this user (who is a long time member without any other ...
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Let's stop displaying a user's accept rate
My feature request (or anti-feature-request perhaps) is the following:
Let's stop displaying a user's accept rate.
For those of you who know "Fawlty Towers", the whole issue of a visible accept rate ...
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Add the number of questions used in the acceptance rate criteria to the display [closed]
Adding the number of questions used in the acceptance rate calculation will help give context to the percentage. For example, a user with four questions who has accepted 2 answers will have an ...
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Why is my accept rate zero? [closed]
Even though I accepted an answer the accept rate is displayed as zero. Why is this?
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Should your Accept rate only be known to you? [closed]
I see the Accept rate as being counter productive to the site. I (incorrectly) answered a question about whether the accept rate should be shown on the Mobile version of the Site as that I was glad it ...
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What happened to the accept rate one year ago?
While discussing the effect of a beta site, attention turned to accept rates on SO. There's a sharp fall in global accept rate (not per-user) in early 2015:
This is also true of Ask Ubuntu:
And ...
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Is it appropriate to comment on people's accept rate? [closed]
I've seen a lot of comments on SO, of the kind (paraphrasing brutally):
(on questions) if you start accepting some answers, I might deign to post a reply
(on answers) good answer, but perhaps too ...
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Policy on accepting answer after question is no longer relevant to original poster
Let's say I have a problem, and post a question on StackOverflow. I don't get any good answers, so I end up writing my own buggy implementation, or shelving the feature entirely.
Months later, ...
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