In the unanswered section of many sites there are a lot of questions that have 0 answers but when you go and look at them someone has suggested an answer in the comments, this creates unnecessary questions to be put in the unanswered section, thus clogging it up. To fix this would it be possible to put a button next to each comment(A little check mark or something along those lines)that would indicate if that comment solved the askers problem. If this is the case one of two things could happen.  1:     The correctly chosen comment could be converted into an answer and then either be automatically chosen as the right answer or just put up as a answer.  2:     The question still technically will have 0 answers but it will be moved out of the unanswered category, allowing for actual unanswered questions to be in there.
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Sometimes, a question is perfectly solved by suggestion or actual resolution given in "comments" under it. In such case, how to mark that answer (comment) as "Accepted Answer"? Due to this, the question remains unanswered even if solution is provided in comment.
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Just ran across , which was bumped by  for having been unanswered. However, it was answered by Jeff (no upvotes), along with a  tag. I gave an upvote so that it wouldn't be bumped again. But, Community should ignore those posts, since they have an official answer.  Possible exceptions, as pointed out by random, are the statuses planned and deferred.  Statuses bydesign, completed and declined should be ignored by Community.
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I have this request is because I have a few questions which did not get proper answers. and later I found out the answer myself. but when I come back to Stack Overflow, I can not flag my own question as solved.   I think we need some feature like this, so everybody can eliminate their own questions from unanswered list, besides, doing so also increases our own acceptance rate.
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I've been seeing a lot of comments, on a lot of questions and answers, and most of them, seem to be related, some are asking new questions themselves, some are talking to the poster, looking for more information, but most of them seem to be more of discussion rather than comment.   But all these comments, are scattered, some are on the question itself, some are throughout all the different answers.  Would we benefit from having a separate Talk/Discussion page/tab/section that we could flesh out the details of the question, and ask more on, in one unified spot?  Also, it might be nice for questions that go unanswered, or the poster accepts a half-baked answer; so that people had a way of asking something like "hey did you ever figure this out" kind of deal and the poster still getting notifications on both sides.  I know it'd probably be difficult to get right, but maybe others have similar ideas on how to refine it, or something they'd like to see, or how to implement it?
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I just went to comment on , saying something like "hey thanks that solution worked for me; You know anything about extending it to ?"  I was confused why I couldn't find any sort of "add comment* button, and it took me an annoying bit of searching just to find out why. :/  So could us new users see a notification like:     you need a minimum of X reputation to comment on questions that are not your own, and on answers that are not to your own questions   in the space where the add comment button would be?
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I happened upon  question, where the questioner commented on every answer with "I'd love an up vote!"    Is it correct to flag such clutter, perhaps as not constructive / off-topic, or is there a better way to correct users that beg for up votes (and similar behavior) via comments.
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When comments get too chatty the move-to-chat feature asks if you'd like to move it out. But this often happens after the fact and thus doesn't prevent it.   I propose that:   Move-to-chat be provided as a button along side so that a user who knows their question or conversation may become drawn out may elect to preempt and take the conversation "off-line"
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I think there are too many questions on StackOverflow. It is just too much for anyone to answer! I mean, I could spend my entire life trying to answer all the questions on StackOverflow.   Just to show an example, this is my daily routine:   Go on StackOverflow Go to Unanswered Questions Start from the top and answer each question, even if I  am not familiar with the language, or topic. Argue with people for down-voting me. I mean, just because I don't know anything about PHP  doesn't mean I can't answer how to assign a variable! At least I'm putting forth effort.   So far I've only been able to answer 500 questions.   I suggest that we make a change to the Ask a Question page to relieve this burden on the technology community, allowing us all to provide answers to questions that have already been asked. Then, when we have all answered them, we can undo the change and start answering the new questions.  The change is this:  Turn  &lt;input id="submit-button" type="submit" value="Post Your Question" tabindex="120"&gt;   into  &lt;input id="submit-button" onclick="return false;" type="submit" value="Post Your Question" tabindex="120" &gt;   This will stop all questions from being posted, and allow us to catch up with answering questions, even if we are inexperienced with the topic!  It would be even better if the submit button acted like the question was submitted, but simply took them back to the home page.   Please join me in the effort to catch up will all the unanswered questions!
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I was reading  last night. When I got to the bottom, where the answer button usually is, I saw the following message in its place:     protected by Won't Jun 13 '11 at 16:28      Thank you for your interest in this question. Because it has attracted   low-quality answers, posting an answer now requires 10 reputation on   this site.      Would you like to answer one of these unanswered questions instead?   I wasn't planning on answering it, but it did make me curious as I have 101 rep on the site. Is this a bug, or is there something I am missing?
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When I'm looking down the front page on , I often wish I could tell at a glance what happened to the question to bump it there. Sometimes it is obvious from looking at the number of answers, other times you have to follow a link to find out if it has been edited or if an answer has been added or updated.  I'm guessing this is just as applicable on other SE sites - this is the kind of thing I'm suggesting:    A couple of suggestions from the comments that might be good:   To reduce clutter the word 'ago' could be removed at the same time. The new text could be visible only to established users - ie users who are likely to be reviewing/editing and would benefit from seeing at a glance what kind of change has occurred.
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More than infrequently, opening posts on SO are not questions at all, in the very grammatical sense: They're just statements or vague musings (for instance ), and it's not clear what exactly is being asked (since nothing is technically being asked).  I always feel that it shouldn't be our job to construct a question from someone's undirected ramblings, and so this is usually a NARQ candidate for me.  I was wondering if we could add a very simple check that would count the number of literal question marks in a post and refuse to accept it if there are none. This could be accompanied by a small note on what a question should look like.  What do you think? Should we add this feature?  Update: Since people seem to get hung up on the details, I'd like to clarify that an entirely satisfactory alternative would be to pop up an overridable notice with a warning, like "Hello, you appear to be writing a question. Would you like help?", with a "No thanks" button to dismiss it and submit the post regardless.  Update 2: If you disagree that absence of a question mark is a strong signal that the question is poor, could you please provide examples of good, useful and appropriate questions that do not contain question marks? I've provided several additional examples of when the signal works in the comments, and more come up regularly, so I would appreciate to see some evidence of the contrary.
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Why does the "Unanswered Questions" tab show questions that have answers?
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It happened to me that I found a solution to an older question. This question was commented by many people with comments like "very interesting, important, ..." such that I thought that my answer has also some value. My answer was the only one. It was upvoted and accepted by the asker. However, I assume, that very few of the "commentators" saw my answer, because the system does not inform automatically about new answers.   I think it would have been helpful for me and the commentators when they would get informed. I could achieve this by adding my own comment to their comments, because this triggers a system message. My question is: would this action be considered admissible or not? Are there some other possibilities?
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I have asked many questions on SO. There are about 30 tabs I have to scroll through to find question for which I have not yet accepted an answer.  Some questions of mine are long-term projects. They may require years to be answered satisfactorily.  In contrast, some questions have shown bugs in Vim and OS X, such that I cannot solve them alone. An example is my question   In short, please add a feature to SO which allows me see my questions without accepted answers effectively.
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I was wondering if anyone else thought it might be a good idea to add an 'edited' section in the votes tab, containing only the questions/answers which have been edited since the user cast their vote?  I tend to go through my downvotes and un-downvote/upvote if an improvement has been made, but currently the only way I can do this is to go through all the questions/answers in the downvotes tab one by one, which is a very time-consuming process (especially as a lot of the time an edit hasn't been made - but of course I have no way of knowing this beforehand).  It may also be useful for checking upvotes you've made - sometimes you can upvote an answer, come back 10 minutes later and an edit has dramatically changed the answer to the point where it's wrong and you wish to un-upvote.   Of course, in this case you can simply un-upvote (if the edit was made after the grace period that is) but again, this involves the user coming back to check every time, which is time-consuming if you upvote often.   I think a tab (it could maybe have two sub-sections - one for upvotes and one for downvotes) showing all questions/answers edited after you voted on them could be useful.   What do you guys think?
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Problem: A lot of the time I downvote something that clearly shows lack of research or effort on OP's part, and when they edit to improve it, I usually find out pretty late, because there are no notifications to help with that.  Proposition: add a Get notified when this post is edited button/checkbox under a post which you have downvoted (per post, not just all posts ever), so that if there is a significant improvement, you could remove your downvote or even change it to an upvote to show you recognize the improvement.  I believe this would improve public thinking about votes, and make people (who choose to participate like this on the SE sites more often) vote more freely and more often, and everybody else would not think of a &lt;0 post score as a death sentence for their contribution.  I'm not asking to enable this on SO (for a number of obvious reasons), and that's why I propose an opt-in subscription. This would be most useful on lower activity sites like the SE, in my opinion, but who knows.    I want to know if someone has improved their post after a downvote to reinforce the positive behavior and I get -4 on my good intentions? What kind of culture are you trying to cultivate? Please, explain why you disagree without silently downvoting. If you think there's a better way, yes, I want to know your thoughts.
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I noticed this issue as I tend to view Stack Overflow via the mobile site frequently:   The mobile version does not show possible duplicate questions while you're typing the question/description, while in "full site mode" the suggestions come up just fine.  In my mind, getting the suggestions to show up on the mobile version of the site should not be a hard thing to implement  While I admit it makes me lazy asking for this feature when there is a work around, the full site doesn't display nearly as well as the mobile one so it would make life a lot easier to have this simple change.  Also, what good programmer isn't lazy? :)