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Unpinning accepted answer from top of list of answers on GIS SE
As of today, Unpinning the accepted answer from the top of the list of answers has been implemented for Stack Overflow.
Would we like to see the same to be done for GIS SE?
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Would it be useful to force accept answers?
This has already been asked on Meta SE, and it looks like the current answer remains 'no', but I do think it'd be nice to be able to assign a correct answer to questions which have hit a certain age ...
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Answer gets accepted but does not answer revised question
I am quite unsure about what to do, if my answer got accepted, but does not (in my opinion) answer the actual problem, but the original question.
In comments to my answer the actual problem got ...
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What should be done when an answer has become obsolete?
Using Google Maps as layer in ArcMap? came to the front page today, and the accepted answer is obsolete. The linked software no longer enables a google maps layer in Arcmap.
What should be done in ...
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Is the answer acceptance mechanism too subtle?
I've noticed that about a quarter of the questions posted on the GIS.SE don't have accepted answers. I think it's about 9,400 of the 39,400 questions currently. In many cases, it's not that these ...
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What happened to (or where is) the "Accept Rate"? [duplicate]
When I first discovered GIS SE two years ago, there was a statistic attached to users showing the percentage of questions that they had accepted an answer -- and even criticism lobbed at those with ...
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Ideal Accept Rate for a GIS StackExchange User
What is the ideal Accept Rate for a GIS StackExchange user? I understand the importance of keeping the overall Accept Rate above 90%, but how much of a concern should that be to a typical user?
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