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Accepted answer is at the bottom, is that a bug?

No - if a question is self answered, the (self) selected answer is not automatically on top. As such its by upvotes and in random order within answers of the same number of votes. This is intended be …
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Re-assign accepted answer years later?

Yup. Best answers change sometimes. Considering its not version specific, I'd add a note on the question and switch.
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Should the accepted answers be unpinned on superuser?

I'm actually kind of leaning towards keeping the status quo. We don't have the volume of SO, and many of our questions are narrowly scoped enough that if an answer's outdated, so's the question (and s …
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I want to check a best answer for the post I did before as a guest at Stack Exchange

You need to use the "contact us" link at the bottom of the page to request the unregistered account you used earlier and the registered ones are merged, then select the correct answer.
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Which answer to accept: best for me, or best in general?

What worked for you. Especially where it's a detailed, unique answer. Unless you feel another answer is awesome and you tested it. It's not cool to copy/slightly modify an existing answer or worse " …
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Reopen request for "Installing fltk on VirtualBox"

Well, the question does show a certain amount of lack of research, and the question as is is really poor quality. I wouldn't count it as a good question. I'm not a fan of spoon feeding either, and …
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Why is this accepted answer not at the top?

Its a self accepted answer. They don't automatically go on top. It only happens when its someone elses answer. Its documented in main meta here
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