Questions tagged [unaccepted-answer]
For questions about answers that were accepted and then got unaccepted at a later time.
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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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What happened on Aug 7? Massive unaccepts
I was looking through my reputation history on Stack Overflow and was surprised to see that I lost a whopping 558 points on August 7th! Expanding the view I see a whole bunch of questions apparently ...
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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 ...
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Previously accepted answer got deleted and unaccepted later: lost the 15 rep acceptance bonus twice
I answered a question on Cognitive Sciences on July, 3rd, which got accepted quite quickly and got 2 up-votes right away (i.e., +35 rep). However, my answer was not correct and it got 5 down-votes ...
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Some answers got unaccepted in my rep history but still display a checkmark
My reputation listing is showing that on Mar 4 and 5, some of my answers got unaccepted, but when I go to those answers, they are still showing as accepted -- they still have the green check mark. Can ...
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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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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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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 ...
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Prioritize non-accepted answers with more than 10:1 votes of the accepted [duplicate]
The SE model works well; OP asks and accepts, the community votes. You get two answers for the price of one; the one that works for OP and the one that works for the community.
Let's face it: ...
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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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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-...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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