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Possible Duplicate: Force Accepted Answers on Questions by Inactive Users Encourage users to select 'Accepted Answer' for old Questions Some users on Stack Overflow or Meta only ask questions, so many ...

Possible Duplicates: Force Accepted Answers on Questions by Inactive Users Encourage users to select ‘Accepted Answer’ for old Questions Many users ask questions, and community ...

On the entire SE network there is a huge number of questions that are unaswered and where the author doesn't use the system anymore, usually is a user that has a score of < 100 and that will not ...

On many of the Stack Exchange sites, a significant proportion of questions are asked by unregistered users who are then unable to accept an answer to their question as correct. This is a massive ...

It's a well-known problem that new/unregistered users tend to neglect accepting answers. This is usually because they just don't pick up on the concept. If new users wind up sticking around and ...

Bolstered by evidence from How to Solve the “New Users Who Don't Return” Problem? It's a common problem across the sites that users -- new, old, and apathetic -- will sometimes leave their question ...

Possible Duplicate: Force Accepted Answers on Questions by Inactive Users A lot of questions don't have an answer marked as accepted; even though they have at least one correct answer. This might ...

I feel like there's a problem with Stack Overflow, as the number of people prowling it increases. Each question's answers are sorted by descending score and then by descending time of posting. This ...

In the Stack Exchange voting system, we have two classes of votes: standard up / down votes that anyone can cast, and special accept votes that only the asker can. Although accepting an answer does ...

Every so often I see questions with good or even clearly correct answers that go unaccepted because the questioner is a new user who hasn't quite grokked the mechanics of the site. They'll leave a ...

It seems that sometimes questions get asked, and some very nice answers are given (sometimes with quite some effort on the part of the answerers). However, the asking party sometimes forgets to ...

I'm getting a lot of old questions on the front page that were bumped by the Community user. I understand that this is usually a Good Thing, to get some attention for buried questions, but should ...

Currently the answers are sorted by votes and the accepted answer is docked at top. The intended design is to "get your answer quickly". This does work well in most cases. Problem If I have ...

Possible Duplicates: Weighted Down-Voting based on Reputation Encourage users to select ‘Accepted Answer’ for old Questions Force Accepted Answers on Questions by Inactive Users ...

On the StackExchange sites I answer quite a few questions, but I find that once the answer (or even a few answers) is there then the user just leaves the question never to see it again. They also do ...

There are lots of good questions made by people that are not using stackoverflow anymore and they need attention: to accept and answer or to update the question with missing details. From the ...

There are times when the following scenario happens: Newb asks a question. Newb gets an answer from Guru. Newb adds "Thanks" as a comment. Newb moves on with his/her life. It would be nice if a ...

Newer users sometimes overlook the accepting and voting part of Stack Overflow. No big deal as this mostly resolves itself after they are pointed to it. Recently, however, I stumbled upon more users ...

First of all I have no problem when my answer is not accepted, I can always be wrong, but there are cases when I must think I really answered correctly and noone else answered. I put in lot of details,...

Possible Duplicates: Would it be possible to have a “community accepted” feature? Moderators accepting answers on user's behalf after a certain time period I am asking this ...

My highest voted answer on stackoverflow has taken me a little by surprise and it is currently this one: Javascript global error handling If you visit the link, you'll notice that the OP has since ...

Possible Duplicate: Shouldn’t the answer with more votes be above the accepted answer? The Problem Sometimes the accepted answer isn't the best one. But the accepted answer is always the first. ...

Possible Duplicate: Promoting comments to answers In trawling through the Unanswered Questions page, I've come across more than a few questions where the original poster has answered his or her ...

Sometimes I see questions asked by super-low-rep users, even reputation-1, which have one (or more) reasonable answers with some upvotes - but no answer is accepted, and the OP doesn't make any ...