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Questions tagged [unaccepted-answer]

For questions about answers that were accepted and then got unaccepted at a later time.

-24 votes
4 answers
219 views

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 ...
6 votes
1 answer
171 views

Add notification for when a followed question accepts an answer and when a followed answer gets accepted

I follow the questions that I answer, and oftentimes I would check back at the question I answered most recently to see if their OP accepted an answer. If so, I would be able to review the accepted ...
7 votes
1 answer
102 views

How can I find unaccepted answers using the SEDE?

While researching my question, "Are there any questions for which multiple answers have received enlightened badges?", I've created a query that searches for questions with multiple accepted ...
35 votes
2 answers
369 views

New timeline view only shows *last* accept vote, no un-accepts

Sometimes an OP changes their mind and awards the accepted answer mark to another post. Sometimes they don't know you can only mark one answer as accepted, and click the big checkmark next to each ...
2 votes
1 answer
54 views

Achievements bar is showing positive reputation gain in spite of the answer getting unaccepted?

On Physics.SE my answer to this question got unticked/unaccepted. I found this because my reputation got down (and surely unless I get serially downvoted or a user get removed such reputation change ...
8 votes
4 answers
602 views

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 ...
14 votes
3 answers
233 views

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 ...
11 votes
3 answers
302 views

Removed accepted answer... what about the reputation?

I just had the case, that the OP removed the "accepted answer" after one month because he needed my help again. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4499476/how-can-i-clear-a-sqlite-database-each-time-...
156 votes
5 answers
6k views

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 ...
4 votes
1 answer
37 views

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 ...
14 votes
1 answer
130 views

Answer re-accepted but still -15 RP

Yesterday I answered a question and the answer got accepted and upvoted. In my reputation list I got +15RP for an accepted answer but also -15RP for an unaccepted answer. Apparently the answer got ...
10 votes
1 answer
998 views

How to mark question as answered (solved) if my question does not have any answers? [duplicate]

How to mark question as answered (solved) if my question does not have any answer? I know that I can answer my question and then accept it. But I am interesting if there is any other way to mark my ...
12 votes
0 answers
85 views

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. ...
4 votes
1 answer
62 views

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 ...
7 votes
1 answer
159 views

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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