According to  "on hold" questions will not accept answers.  But  was placed on hold at: 2013-07-05 07:58:51Z but accepted a new answer at: 2013-07-05 08:09:38Z  Is this expected behavior?  Note, for clarity, that the above meta question/answer reference also states "on hold" questions will behave identically to closed questions.    From what I can tell, closed questions cannot have new answers posted to them after they are closed. (I'm trying to avoid the use of the word "accept" here because I think it is an overloaded term.)  However the example SO question I linked allowed a new answer to be posted to the question after it was closed (more than 10 minutes after it was closed, from what I can tell.)
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Question:   Answer:   The question was closed at 11:57:57 (according to the hover-over-"x-mins-ago" bar) and the answer was posted at 12:16:35. It's a fairly lengthy answer, so it's possible that it was started to be written before it was closed but I swear I've started to answer a question then I got a banner along the top saying "this question has been closed" and the answer was no longer post-able.
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I am looking to get some rep by answering unanswered questions. I only have time to answer a few at a time. I take a look at the unanswered list and post some good answers (i think) and afterwards I see that the question was posted over a year ago. The odds of that person coming back to that question after such a long time is not good. Besides that, they probably found their answer somewhere else.  So why do these really old questions show up on the first page of the unanswered list? The person that asked that question already thinks the site sucks cause they didn't get help with their question. Why should a newer unanswered question get burried? Do you want people not to find the new question so it yields the same fate?  feature-request: sort unanswered questions by date desc
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When reviewing whether or not to reopen a question, I came across .  What surprised me is that, IMO, if someone asked that today, they would be all but crucified (endless downvotes, and most likely closed within minutes).    It's not like the post has a few upvotes and downvotes; it has 21 upvotes and 0 downvotes.  So, are all questions equal, but some are more equal than others?  Or were the rules just different in 2010?    I don't really think that it just slipped through the cracks, because there are 0 downvotes...
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Lately I've been getting some good answers to some specific questions. However, I've been hesitating on what answer I should accept.  Do I go with the short quick answer or do I accept a later answer where someone has elaborated on the previous answer with some code?  It's not really important but it kind of bugs me to not accept an answer when people have taken the trouble of replying.  Here's two examples:
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Most of the time, you don't want to see unanswered questions in the duplicate dialog, since you can't normally close as a duplicate of them. This behavior is intended, at least as it says :     The search results include only answered questions (per the usual SO definition of "answered", where the question must have an accepted or up-voted answer).   But there are times when you can close against something unanswered:   On meta Questions with the same author   But the dialog doesn't show unanswered posts in those circumstances.  In the past, I have wondered why I was mysteriously unable to find some specific posts in the duplicate dialog. For example:   I saw two near-identical posts by the same user. I was unable to find the duplicate in the dialog, even after typing in the exact title or using the user:1 search trick. On meta,  does not show up in the dialog. I posted about this before, on , but at that point I only knew it affected that one post (the joke's on whomever got rid of "too localized" I guess).   In both cases, I had to go get the URL and paste it in manually.    The best way to see this is to use answers:0. I hope you don't think there are only two unanswered questions here!        Most of the time, the results for this search are merged questions (but not all the merged questions). I have no clue why that one post shows up here. (Maybe it was merged and un-merged at some point?) This current behavior is pretty useless.    It should be very easy to fix the dialog on meta. It might take a little more effort to have the same user's posts show up on main, but I can't imagine it being prohibitively difficult.
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I understand the desire to keep a closed question around for Google or SO Search purposes, or when a question is a dupe, or has been moved to "(sister site)" and therefore I don't want the to be deleted.  However as a user of the site, logged in, looking to help someone out (or just gain some rep) answering questions, the [Closed] questions just become noise.     Would you consider an option (for logged in users) to not show Closed questions,   unless running a search?   e.g. if I search for "IE getElementById error" then please show the closed questions as they may be helpful.  However when just going to the Questions page... p2, p3, p4, p5 etc. I'd rather not see those questions as typically they are the "Spam, Not a real question, or Belongs on Sister site" questions... all of which I'm not interested in.  Alternatively any chance they could be styled similar to "ignored tag" questions where they are almost faded out?
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How should SO handle users who don't "maintain" their questions by selecting answers, or remarking newer/better answers as the chosen one?  Many questions...   Have no answer marked correct, even when one is plainly there Are not reviewed by the poster to select a new correct answer   I don't mind taking the time to answer questions, but don't see the point when I don't get "reputation" for doing so since no one reads those questions, and reputation seems to be the point of the site.  I think the "remind to accept an answer" feature is there now, since I just saw it when coming back.  I missed it the first time though.
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I just stumbled upon a question from 2009 (that's what I mean by 'old'), .  I think we can all agree that by Today's standards this question would be closed (with a couple of valid reasons to choose from).  However, things were different back then - well from what I can gather, I see quite a few questions like this from back in the day. This kind of question was clearly acceptable at one point.  So, should I vote to close it or leave it be? And just for extra understanding, what would happen to any rep for that question and the answers if it was closed?
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If you    Formulate a question vaguely It gets closed / put on hold for this You take the comments to heart and reformulate it It no longer gets attention but you have not enough reputation to trigger a reopen.   Then is there anything you can do? Is closing the question and stating it as a new question a legitimate solution? I have the feeling it is not, but did not find any info here on meta.
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I have been through a few re-open requests and some shared a similar issue.  Like   It was originally closed as unclear. Then the OP changes the question but his edit still makes it a very poor question with no research shown and the answer could be as simple as yes or no - only if the question didn't get closed.  I judge looking at the new(revised) question ignoring the original closure reason. Even though the revised question still doesn't make a good question and would probably get closed very quickly I just leave it closed with the old closure reason.    Am I doing the right thing or should we re-open and let it get closed for a new - more appropriate reason?   The answer seems obvious: leave it closed, but    is this how all of you process re-open queue?   Note: I am asking because sometimes I've noticed others voting to re-open such cases and I want to confirm that I am on the same page as everyone else
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Recently I was writing a quite large answer on Stack Overflow. When I finished I found out that the  "Post your answer" button was blocked because the question got closed.  I understand the fact that there is no case to answer a closed or bad question. But, what if I think I got the answer for that person?  Why can't we leave an answer (not visible) on that question, in case it gets reopened again?
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The following scenario happened to a question of mine today:   I asked a question to a topic I'm pretty new to. Someone answered the question, it absolutely satisfied my points, so I upvoted and accepted it.   But a few minutes later he got heavily downvoted because (as I understand it) the way he explained the points were completely wrong and they said his words just show he has no clue about the topic.  So he deleted his answer, which made me sad as I thought it will be lost.  But it wasn't.  His answer is still in the question. It has a weak colour, as an answer has of my own after I deleted it. But why? Is this just to me, as I'm the one who upvoted it? Or is it because at the point he deleted it, it was the accepted answer?  And is this just visible to me?  Or anyone can still see it?  And I also noticed he still has the +2 rep he got left from his answer (after downvoting) so is this really a deleted answer?  What's going on?
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Sometimes we get questions where the problem can't be reproduced given the information OP mentioned. Sometimes we get questions where OP posts code and asks why the code doesn't work where in fact the code does work.   Here is  I just ran into in the edit queue. However, we've all seen them.  In the example  the question basically saying "When using your code in an isolated environment it works. This is not the first or tenth time I've seen these sort of answer.   Should users post these sort of answers? Are they useful for the site? Why?  Note: This is not about whether or not to close such questions. I think that's clear.
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There was  by  (no, another Jon) that had an incorrect accepted answer with 0 votes. I pointed out in the comments that the accepted answer is wrong and started writing my own answer (a workaround, but anyway!). As I finished my answer and pressed Post Your Answer, I realized the question has just been deleted. This kind of bugs me because I really wanted to share my solution. Should I:  repost the question; wait for someone to revert it if possible?  Update I reposted the question (along with my answer) .
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Do users get notified when their question is reopened? I know there are no notifications , and that makes sense because 1) you assume the user is paying attention to their open, unanswered question, and they'll probably notice it's been put on hold and 2) it follows with the SE policy of (in general) not sending notifications for negative events.  However a reopening is a good thing, and once a question is closed it becomes less likely that the OP will be coming back to check on it often (so they might not notice the reopening otherwise). If there are not reopen notifications, why not? Or can we add them?
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When my vote to close my own question as duplicate was registered as a simple vote, I was a bit surprised, as I thought it'd immediately close for my own given reason, but the question of whether a user should be allowed to force a close-as-duplicate has already been addressed here on Meta.  However, when I later reloaded the page it was much worse:     I automatically leave a comment asking myself if something answers my question. Well, of course I think it does, otherwise I wouldn't have voted for that. "The system" picks up my on question and asks it to me again. Well darn, I just told you that it does — take my vote for an answer!   This can't be right!
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I saw the same problem as in this () post  on Math.SE. I want to pay attention on it, because it linked post is written that this bug has been yet fixed.     Quote comes from  :      I noticed this anomaly after clicking the "load new answers" link :      As far as I can tell, this was caused by the following sequence of   events:         I loaded the question with one accepted answer and left the tab open for a while.   Meanwhile, a new answer was posted and the OP changed this to be the accepted answer.   I returned to the tab, noticed the "load new answers" banner, and clicked it.   The new answer got loaded, but now both were shown as accepted.         Of course, refreshing the page fixes the issue.