Timeline for Unanswered questions that are answered without upvotes or accepted answers
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| Jun 8, 2017 at 8:19 | comment | added | Wouter | I can agree that for questions without accepted answers, but highly upvoted answers, it can still be quite clear the answer is useful. So the argument for a downvote would be weaker here. Although, when using the search bar, and seeing a list of results, the usefulness would be higher if the question is actually marked green as answered. That is an aspect that is lost with the current approach of leaving answers unaccepted. So I'm undecided on your first point, and agree with your second point. | |
| Jun 8, 2017 at 8:01 | comment | added | fixer1234 | 1) Acceptance doesn't affect searchability. Whether or not the OP is satisfied isn't necessarily a measure of usefulness to others. A good question doesn't become bad because the OP didn't test the answers or accept something. 2) If the case is that there are answers, but none are upvoted or accepted, and it isn't clear to the reader what, if anything, is actually a solution, that's a different issue. It may mean that the question is unclear as far as what is being asked and/or the answers are LQ. If so, that could be a basis for downvote or VTC. | |
| Jun 8, 2017 at 7:11 | comment | added | Wouter | I'd consider the questions with a small amount of upvotes the ideal target for this approach. If 2-3 users downvote it, it's gone... "fake" unanswered questions with a lot of upvotes are the real problem.... | |
| Jun 7, 2017 at 20:17 | comment | added | Tamara Wijsman | Yeah, I could use some metric (some amount of time without upvoted/accepted answers) upon which I downvote them ... but just my downvotes (and perhaps yours) aren't going to be enough to get the question deleted! A lot of these questions have a small amount of upvotes already, so they'll end up zero instead of negative. | |
| Jun 7, 2017 at 15:03 | history | answered | Wouter | CC BY-SA 3.0 |