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Should I keep downvoting questions with answers that aren't accepted?
Sometimes people ask questions and never bother to follow up and accept the (obviously correct) answer.
My solution is to downvote the question. Even if the question is good, they were too lazy to ...
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Improve the UX so it's obvious that the previous answer will be unaccepted when accepting another one
A new user receives a good answer
Clicks the tick✅ next to it
Receives another good answer
Proceeds to tick that as well
Unexpected[to a new user] result: First answer gets unaccepted
User potentially ...
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Does unaccepting violate site rules?
A few days ago, I unaccepted a lot of answers to my questions just to test if I could exceed the reputation cap by accepting more than 100 answers on the next day. But I couldn't ... because of ...
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How to create a list of all questions I answered without accept?
I saw View my questions with unaccepted answers but my question is not only about my questions. Instead: I would like to get a list of all these questions (on a specific site) which
I answered to
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Should we warn the OP on attempts to accept multiple answers?
It happened again the other day on SO. I answered a question and 2 other users also answered the question. Because of the order that currently on my screen, my answer was in the middle of the 3. ...
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When your answer becomes unaccepted, do you received notification?
When your answer accepted, you get notification about that.
This also happens when your answer becomes unaccepted?
I mean, answer was accepted and then becomes unaccepted, you will also get ...
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Answer got unaccepted after additional follow-up questions in comments
Recently, I've answered this question:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34440540/nonetype-object-has-no-attribute-find-i-dont-have-find-attribute/34440565#34440565
which exactly answers the ...
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What to do if answer is no longer valid?
Note: this question is not about chameleon questions and therefore it is not a duplicate of questions asking about that kind of phenomena.
I have asked a question about switching "new" Google Maps to ...
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Does a temporarily suspended account automatically unaccept answers to their questions?
The user Ram Dutt Shukla was recently suspended temporarily due to "voting irregularities".
I had previously answered one of this user's questions, which had been accepted.
Then I lost 15 reputation ...
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Stack Exchange Etiquette - Changing an accepted answer?
If I accept a correct answer but a more detailed and clearer answer comes along after the fact, should I change the accepted answer? Is it considered rude to the original answerer whose answer was ...
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Just one more thing [duplicate]
This is getting old, sometimes I answer a Q and it feels like doing tech support for my uncle or neighbor. You know, they call every few days with "one more thing".
Case: Reset a list using jQuery
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Choosing not to accept a better answer when already satisfied with the first accepted answer?
In the case that I asked a question, waited a few days, and then accepted a great answer that told me exactly what I need to know. Afterwards someone adds an answer that gives the same important ...
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Is this behavior acceptable? [duplicate]
I found out my answer for this question got unaccepted. I went and checked the answer that was accepted instead. While I didn't think it was more correct than my own answer, I thought it was the OP's ...
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How to deal with people that never accept an answer?
I just came across some OP that has about 20 questions with good answers (in my opinion).
But he/she never took the time to accept any of those answers.
In the "Old" days we had the acceptance %, and ...
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Why the answer giver overtake my answer? [closed]
I have given a very short answer that questioner is satisfied with my answer and up voted and accepted my question and after some time another answer giver steal the idea of mine but very cleverly ...
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