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For questions primarily about accepting answers, and best practices around accepting answers.
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Is it a good idea to justify your choice between two good answers? Where?
I wouldn't say it's a “good idea” to leave feedback, as that implies it's recommended or a best-practice course of action, and I wouldn't wish to imply that. Rather, it's something you could do, if/wh …
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Too many good answers...now what?
Usually the accepted answer is to mark “this fixed my problem”. So, try your favourites out in practice, see what you find, and if any one answer is the one you go with that solves it, accept that one …
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I've noticed that new users tend to accept questions within only a few hours; should we upda...
We can't actually edit that part of the tour just for this site, so this is a Stack Exchange dev thing.
But, also, no. The tour shouldn't be updated to say that. This isn't necessarily a “generally a …
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What is our stance on "Unpinning the accepted answer from the top of the list of answers"?
I think this would be a neutral-to-positive change for us.
The accepted answer exists to signal something specific: “this is the solution that I went with, that worked for me.” It originated on Stack …
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Enchantment Property Spell edit concern
This is a tricky situation.
By all accounts, the first version of the answer - which was accepted - had some pretty incorrect statements in it. (This is why you don't accept answers within a day, peo …
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Should we encourage users to wait 24 hours before accepting an answer?
No, we shouldn't encourage people to wait before accepting.
We don't have a policy at the moment, and I don't think we need one, but I also don't think we should be encouraging people to wait.
The cas …
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How to deal with OPs accepting answers they want to be right instead of ones that are right?
Unfortunately for the hapless souls who offer that "yeah this works" answer when it's wrong, the usual resolution communities use is to downvote that accepted (but wrong) answer more heavily than it w …
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What good are the Tenacious and Unsung Hero badges?
They're in our Q&A system for sites like Stack Overflow where it's much, much harder to get upvotes. SO for example has 65k Tenacious badges and 26k Unsung Hero badges. After so little engagement a us …
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Is there a way to let someone else decide which answer to accept? How should accepting self-...
This sounds like an ideal case for accepting your own answer. Go ahead.
To answer your questions:
Is there a way to pass the right to accept answers to another user or a group of users?
There i …
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Why isn't it possible to delete an accepted answer?
For a fairly pragmatic reason: the Stack Exchange software has guards to prevent people from deleting material that's critical to a Q&A site's usefulness. That includes questions that have non-negativ …
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Can something be done when OP does not agree with an upvoted answer?
Nothing really needs to be done. How people vote and accept answers is entirely personal and beyond the control of anybody including diamond moderators. And as the old adage goes, you cannot make anyo …
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