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Should the answer that appears on "top" be the OP's "accepted answer" or the answer with most votes?
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@Wolgwang nope. But it’s become less critical as the procedure was adjusted due to feedback from other sites. Originally it was “we will probably change it” and then became “ping us, if you want to unpin”.
Feel free to open a matching Q/A on Meta - you could do it rather quickly with a bit of creative copy-paste.
@Wolgwang Thanks for pointing that out, have a cooky for your effort 🍪. I didn't keep track of the discussion. If no-one is quicker, I'll probably create a Meta discussion tomorrow or on saturday
Stack Exchange staff have announced an upcoming change to the way answer acceptance works.
Unpinning the accepted answer from the top of the list of answers
Currently, the original poster of a question can accept one non-deleted answer. This does several things,
the question poster receives 2 ...
@Elmy Hm. Shouldn’t we better have answers that outline the reason(s) why the poster recommends one over the other? For example on Parenting an excellent argument was that we want to keep what helped the specific asker because parenting is always subjective to a degree. Or in Coffee SE we get a lot of drive-by posters that sometimes just tick the first answer (not necessarily correct) and never come back while the community overall is comparatively “slow”, so good answers take a bit.
I would love to hear @AllisonC’s reasoning, for example.
@Stephie Sure. :) I've noticed a tendency with questions where the accepted answer isn't the top-voted answer is because of a questioner with an itchy trigger finger on that "accept" button just taking the first thing that comes in regardless of quality.
My initially being mixed on it was the idea that there might be an answer that better directly answers the questioner's situation, but people voted for another one instead, but that's really rare, and doesn't provide a great benefit to the next person looking at the question
@Stephie The way the question or answers are written isn't set in stone. I went with the easy route that made the final decision a clear yes or no. Of course people have different views and oppinions, but in the end we'll have to boil it down to yes or no.
@AllisonC I feel like votes on answers are much more biased by time than by accepts. The first answer that was written has a tendency to collect more votes, simply because more people see it than the latest answer. That's mostly a problem on bigger sites, though, where there are 5 or more answers and after upvoting a few people lose interest in reading all of them.
@Elmy I can definitely see that on bigger sites with a lot more action. I tend to stick mainly around here and Arts & Crafts, which are both smaller, and where I've definitely seen that trend of "I asked this five minutes ago and got an answer five seconds ago, accept!"