Timeline for When is it appropriate to tell a user how and when to select an answer?
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| Aug 10, 2012 at 10:40 | comment | added | Daniel Andersson | To clarify: not meant for questions that lack good answers, but for questions that obviously have good answers that have been abandoned by the questioner. This might not be seen as a big issue by others, though, but at the same time these discussions pop up all the time across SE and don't seem to reach consensus, as shown by the links Bob put forth in the comments to this iteration of the topic. Not a solution to "I want my 15 rep!" (which is another topic and agreed not constructive), but to "Come on questioner, click the button to close the question since there is nothing more to gain". | |
| Aug 10, 2012 at 10:36 | comment | added | Daniel Andersson | Questions are often left hanging "unanswered" even though they seem to be. It clutters the Q&A-format and often it is clear that the question is abandoned and that further discussion is a dead end. If there is no more material to add to the question in its current form, either the questioner should add more info or the question should be able to be marked as "dead", if just for cleaning purposes. Suggest mod ability "Mark as dead" after a while without interest from questioner; auto-open if activity is shown. Perhaps also a mod "pseudo accept", without rep given and overridable by questioner. | |
| Aug 3, 2012 at 9:32 | vote | accept | Journeyman GeekMod | ||
| Aug 3, 2012 at 8:49 | history | answered | slhckMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |