Exhortation: If possible, mark your old questions as "answered"

[Breck_Carter]

If you see an old question suddenly appear at the top of the list, it may be because it doesn't have a green "answered" checkmark, and the background "Community" task has pushed it up to the top.

You can do your part to stop this horror! If you see this happen to one of your questions, mark it as answered.

[VolkerBarth]

I'd like to add: If there's no truly satisfying answer but one or more partially acceptable ones, it's fine to comment on those on what they solve/don't solve. That should help to add better answers or edit the existing ones. And sometimes one might be able to combine two "nearly-acceptable answers" into one that is fully acceptable...

[VolkerBarth · Accepted solution]

Just in case you need an arbitrary answer to accept:)

Though it may be useful to keep this exhortation showing up from time to time...

Seriously, I comes at a surprise to me that some folks are so friendly to write a comment saying "Thanks" or "It worked!" but don't click on the "accept" button... Are we too much conditioned by NNTP behaviour?

[Breck_Carter · Accepted solution]

Yes, I think so (re: conditioning)... it doesn't help that the "accept" button is camouflaged as the dim grey outline of a giant clown checkmark (now a giant GREEN clown checkmark here 🙂

[Breck_Carter · Accepted solution]

More: Soon, when we get our own version of OSQA up and running, we may get better (i.e., any) response to feature requests.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

you mean we were supposed to read the directions... 🙂

[justin_willey · Accepted solution]

There are of course some things that don't really have an "answer" as such - announcments, product suggestions etc - A limitation of a pure Q&A approach I suppose

[VolkerBarth · Accepted solution]

@Justin: Well, for "product suggestions" we do hope to get an answer, don't we? - But I agree with your point. Possibly the person raising an announcement could post an answer to "close" the pseudo-question if nobody else has posted any answer within a certain timeframe...

[VolkerBarth · Accepted solution]

@Justin: Or should all announcements be worded as questions: Q: "Where can I get the new feature X / new version Y?" - A (from the same poster): "Have a look at ...". - Inherently, that approach should also earn more reputation:) --- No, this is no serious suggestion.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

I have a current question that has been answered. But I can't find an "accept" button anywhere???

[justin_willey · Accepted solution]

@Bill

Do you see a gray circle with a tick in it under the votes on the left hand margin of the answers? You need to click on that.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Got it, thanks. (I am sure I have done that in the past, I better invoke the grey hair excuse.)