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As already mentioned it is not possible to accept an answer on Codidact, as opposed to what happens on the Stack Exchange network. Having accepted answers (+ pinning them) might lead to having a ba...
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#2: Post edited
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Alexei
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2021-02-25T18:31:07Z (over 3 years ago)
As already mentioned it is not possible to accept an answer on Codidact, as opposed to what happens on the Stack Exchange network. Having accepted answers (+ pinning them) might lead to some issues and [Stack Overflow is currently spending a lot of time and effort to fix this](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/405302/introducing-outdated-answers-project?cb=1).[Letting the OP to mark the question as answered](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/280917) might lead to better results, but if we look from a long term perspective (the question and answers to be useful for future readers) there is really not much value added by marking a particular answer as accepted or marking the question as answered.- I am not sure if it applies to less technical communities, but for me most of the answers I find the best (accurate, up to date) on Stack Exchange are the non-accepted ones.
- As already mentioned it is not possible to accept an answer on Codidact, as opposed to what happens on the Stack Exchange network. Having accepted answers (+ pinning them) might lead to having a bad answer marked as accepted and [Stack Overflow is currently spending a lot of time and effort to fix this](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/405302/introducing-outdated-answers-project?cb=1) (the effort is actually trying to also tackle the highly voted obsolete answers).
- [Letting the OP mark the question as answered](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/280917) might lead to better results, but if we look from a long term perspective (the question and answers to be useful for future readers) there is really not much value added by marking a particular answer as accepted or marking the question as answered.
- I am not sure if it applies to less technical communities, but for me most of the answers I find the best (accurate, up to date) on Stack Exchange are the non-accepted ones.
#1: Initial revision
by
Alexei
·
2021-02-25T18:21:40Z (over 3 years ago)
As already mentioned it is not possible to accept an answer on Codidact, as opposed to what happens on the Stack Exchange network. Having accepted answers (+ pinning them) might lead to some issues and [Stack Overflow is currently spending a lot of time and effort to fix this](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/405302/introducing-outdated-answers-project?cb=1). [Letting the OP to mark the question as answered](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/280917) might lead to better results, but if we look from a long term perspective (the question and answers to be useful for future readers) there is really not much value added by marking a particular answer as accepted or marking the question as answered. I am not sure if it applies to less technical communities, but for me most of the answers I find the best (accurate, up to date) on Stack Exchange are the non-accepted ones.