Suppose that these events occur by this order:  Someone posts a question. User A posts an answer. User B posts an answer. The answer posted by user A gets deleted. The answer posted by user B gets accepted; also it gets a score of 10.  In this situation, will user B get the Enlightened badge? The  in the Help Center says that that badge is given under these conditions:  First to answer and accepted with score of 10 or more.  But it is not clear (at least not to me) whether or not an answer is considered as the first answer if it is just the first undeleted answer.
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Some badges like the  requires one to be the first to answer. I have cases where my answer was accepted like , and the answer previous to mine was deleted, thus making my answer the only one.  Is a deleted answer counted as the first answer?  Does it prevents a question for awarding the "first to answer" type of badges?  I understand that some answers might be related to experience, but I would be inclined to accept an answer that provide an official documented reference.
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There is already a question  which is posted around a month ago (which was fixed). My question reports a similar issue of showing inaccurate scores along with another bug.   A couple of answers in the Top Answers in my network profile are showing incorrect score.         As we can see they are showing a score of 10. But as of writing this question, the score of both the answers is 9.  and  both have a score of 9 instead of 10.  Even though the current score is 9, both these answers reached a score of 10 a few months ago and I was awarded  for both.         The vote was removed either when a user was removed or there was an unupvote. As far as I can tell, I don't remember an unupvote notification in the achievement box from these answers. My guess is the votes are removed when user accounts were deleted.   So, I suspect the score of answers in Top Network Posts is not updated either when there is an unupvote or a vote thrown away due to account deletion.   Is this the right reason why score is inaccurate? Can this be fixed?
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Someone's asked  the answer being that it's intended to help people learn about the site's functionality. Answering your own question  and there's a feature to .   The number of unanswered questions, on Stack Overflow at least, , so why not encourage people to fill in the blanks by answering their own questions more regularly?  I'm of two minds about the route to go down. I initially though of something like a silver self-learner badge with some conditions as follows: answer your own +3 scored question with an answer with a score of +5 but as there are only  open, unanswered questions with a score of 3 or more it seems fairly pointless.  A better way would be to allow people to earn a "self-learner" type badge multiple times but to stop people from getting it solely for self-answering. You could have a bronze badge (, or whatever) for people who:   Self-answer a positively scored question - This should not be open to negatively scored questions and I'd be wary of 0 scored to stop a deluge of people wanting the badge. That has not received an answer with a score of more than 1 since it was posted - Not completely sure about this but the goal is to answer the questions without answers More than 24 hours after the question was posted - Otherwise FGITW etc; the point is to get all the old questions answered. With a score of 2 or more - Otherwise you could answer it with anything, which is useless for the internet. Maybe +3 might be more appropriate?   There are  positively scored, unclosed questions with 0 answers so getting some of these answered is a worthy cause.
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I'm trying to  when I run into this:     "You have already deleted 5 of your own posts today; further deletes are blocked"      I found conflicting information on this very annoying limit:   This post from May 25, 2010: . This is marked . If this is no longer the case, please edit that question and flag it as . Then , indicates that the problem has risen from the dead -- despite :     Each time that I've seen it (pruning subpar answers), it's been a user who is deleting their own redundant zero-upvote answers. Can you tweak the algorithm slightly so answers with less than one upvote don't count towards tripping this flag?     (Emphasis added.) :     I don't mind it when         cleaning up redundant answers on questions that have multiple alternate good answers   cleaning up old, "less awesome" answers that are no longer reflective of the user's current skill level         (Emphasis added.)     So why do we have barriers in place, to making SO answers less, "less awesome"?      Proposed Solution:  Please let us (¿once again?) delete an unlimited number of our own answers, when they have zero up-votes and are not marked as the answer.  Otherwise, please edit the linked questions to clear up the confusion.
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A few days ago, someone posted a question about updating dataset. After some questions/comments to his question, it didn't receive answers (and no up/down vote).  1 or 2 days later, the user posted the  (he just reformulated the question, posted less code and with bad formatting, the code doesn't compile due to missing ' for comments), so it would be harder to get answer for this question . The question received a +1.   I flagged this question as a duplicate of the previous and asked user to edit the previous instead of creating a new one, but he deleted the previous.  I do not blame the asker, I understand he wanted to keep it's 5 points rep  :) And it seems he solved his problem later.  But now the flag is marked with eventinvalidated because it is impossible now to accept or reject it?   Since my flag is no longer appropriate, I am just curious about what could happen to this flag?
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"Good morning.  Here is something awesome that you got last night!", said the Top Bar:    "21?  That must be two answer upvotes and, um, an answer that I downvoted that was deleted?", I thought.  Ok, let's look at the details and find out:    The +20 on my egrep answer is new and I've seen the other Achievements on the list, so where did the extra +1 come from?  In order to avoid confusion, the recent reputation changes in the dropdown should add up to the number in the notification.      I suspect this particular case is a bug.  Assuming the +1 is a downvote reversed by an answer deletion, I could see the argument for excluding it from the Achievements dropdown.  After all, it's not exactly something you accomplished.  Except it kinda is.  Part of the reason for downvoting is to  low-quality content.  The ultimate sign that such content was deemed beneath community standards is when it gets deleted.  I'm not sure that we should , but putting a note in your achievements in such cases seems like it would reinforce positive (albeit negative) behaviour.  This question is a feature request that rep gains from deleted downvotes be listed in the Achievements dialog, without getting into broader issues of displaying other activity on deleted posts such as those discussed in .  Thus, this is not intended to completely address the issue of the Achievements sum not adding up, but is intended to help encourage good community moderation by appropriate downvoting of low-quality content.
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Suppose an answer that was voted (up-voted and/or down-voted) is deleted, and undeleted after months. When it is deleted, any reputation change because that answer is removed. What happens when the answer is undeleted?
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When I ran  query, it is giving me this result: Accepted Answers     Scored Answers    Unscored Answers     Percentage Unscored 35                   26                9                    25.7  But when I count from answers tab, I have 42 accepted answers, out of which 27 are scored and 15 unscored. Of course 2 are self-accepted answers. Even then why this much difference? How far am I from the unsung hero badge?
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Suppose your answer has a score of 0, (1 upvote and 1 downvote). Your reputation gain from the upvote is +10, and the reputation loss from the downvote is -2. So the net reputation gain from your answer is +8.   If you delete your answer, you will lose those 8 reputation points, but if  you then undelete it, you won't get back those 2 points.  I think this is a bug.    I don't know if this behavior is same for questions.
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I just answered , then deleted the answer because I realized what I said had already been covered. After deleting, I editing in a note saying why I deleted it, but that edit bumped the question on the home page.  I assume that the question will get bumped if I undelete the answer (which is proper behaviour), but I think in the case where someone edits a deleted answer, there's no point bumping the question for content that most people aren't going to see (and since the answer is deleted, shouldn't be seen anyway).  EDIT: A nifty way to abuse the system (10k+ only!).
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I recently downvoted an answer on SO because I believe it didn't actually answer the question, and before I could add a comment, the answer had been deleted. Two minutes later, I looked at the question again, and the same user had re-posted his answer, without the downvote.  I've seen this guy remove answers with negative feedback/downvotes in the past and repost them exactly as they were. My biggest concern is that by getting round the system this way will hide legitimate feedback that may be very relevant to whoever asked the original question.  I feel there's an argument for requiring a vote to close ANY answer or question with any kind of feedback. Personally, I've only ever deleted one question that had answers, because I realised there wasn't an easy way to explain what I was asking, and realised shortly after I posted it that it wasn't possible anyway.
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While at least some answers from every question seem to have been up-voted as a "helpful" answer:   about 49% of questions have score of 0 or 1. another 21% of questions have a score of 2.   Most questions seem to have an answer or two with score +5. Is it that we have a lot of fluff questions and not useful ones? Or perhaps it just seems more natural to vote for answers than questions? If we want the most useful info on Stack Overflow to filter to the top, how can this disparity be fixed?  I think this may cause real problems for people getting the badges which require +25 or +100 votes on questions.    I like a lot of the feedback I'm seeing. Two problems are highlighted:   The work flow doesn't promote voting for questions the way it promotes voting for answers. One solution: when a user answers a question, the system should invite them to vote for the question.  If someone cares enough to answer a question, then they care enough to vote for it as well. Users with less than 15 reputation cannot vote for questions or answers. Is this warranted?  Maybe these users could provisionally vote for questions and answers and those ratings would only take effect when the user reaches 15 reputation?   All I ask is this. As you browse Stack Overflow, when you see a good question: vote for it.  If everyone does, then this problem will disappear.
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I always see Stack Overflow users giving -1 to new users' questions. This is not how you welcome a new user to the community. A new user does not know the rules yet.    I suggest that if one wants to give -1 to a new user, you prevent that and ask the downvoter to write a comment instead. new user = 2 first questions    I see the credit rating on my question is now at -9?  My question, is she not well formed or formatted? If you don't agree with the content of a question do you down-rate it? If an Ubuntu user asks a question that might not be reasonable, will you also down-rate it?  No. You post an answer that will present your thinking and correct him? I think that is part of the problem. When you first go to a community like Facebook, and you don't know the faces, you don't feel like any of those people are your relations. Newbies exist here as well, especially in a professional community.    First, welcome the new user in more appropriate way. And most importantly, force them to see/read how to post a good question.
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I had a question of the form "does something like X exist?" Someone wrote a response to say that, No, X does not exist, but I could write it if I liked. I had suspected as much, so I marked his answer as the accepted answer. Today someone actually posted the code to do X for me, and I feel that the new poster deserves the "Accepted Answer" checkmark.  Is it poor form for me to pick a new Accepted answer? Does the original answerer get penalized in terms of reputation?  While the original responder's answer was accepted at the time, I feel this new answer is really more helpful.  Edit: Which of these responses should I accept? What does the notion of a single accepted answer mean with a question that is subjective that could have multiple "right" answers?
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I asked a question almost as soon as I got my account. I got a few decent answers, but none of them helped solve my problem. The question has long since become buried by newer questions, and there's still no accepted answer. Unfortunately, because there are quite a few answers with votes, to a casual observer it probably looks like the question was answered and I just neglected to mark an answer as accepted, and the system does not consider it "unanswered".  Or, I asked a question that was a bit more difficult to answer. After waiting for some time, I received no answers, little or no comments, and only a few views. The question does show up in the "unanswered" list, but no one has answered my question.  In either case, what's the protocol for me to try to get this question answered?  I see several options:   Post the question a second time, possibly linking to the original, to get attention for the original question. This is encouraged on sites like Reddit.  However, it's probably not appropriate here, since we're encouraged to check for duplicates and not submit a question that's already been asked by someone else, so this probably falls under that heading. Wait for some kind of wiki-like talk page to be implemented, then post a plea on the talk page for input and hope that activity on the talk page bumps up the question. Edit the question, but do nothing further on the Stack Exchange site. If I edit my post to say that I haven't accepted any of the current answers but am looking for more, then the question might get answered eventually by people browsing through old questions to find something they can answer. Post the question on other sites, but link to my original question on Stack Exchange. People will either answer here, or they'll answer on the other site and I can post the accepted answer here myself.  This might be considered spamming, so it might be better to do this without the link.      For more information, see the "" page in the .
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For the 400 votes tag badge, does it take into consideration answers marked as the accepted answer?  The description indicates it does not.  I would think an accepted answer would be worth more, or at least the same amount, towards getting a tag badge than just a simple upvote?  Lots of users mark answers as accepted and do not bother giving an upvote since the 15 points is like and upvote and a tip.  So it's possible for a user to have 400 accepted answers with no upvotes and not get a badge where a user with 400 answers (which could be right or wrong) with a single upvote and no accepted answers ever would get the badge.  Just seems a little odd or does accounting for accepted answers make the badge calculation too complicated / slow?  Edit: Questions you ask and submit an answer to shouldn't be counted towards the total for accepted answers.  Edit: It just seems to me that the most important thing in the system is an accepted answer yet there are no badges for achieving more than one accepted answer.  If up votes were more important, and therefore far more worthy of a badge, then why do the top voted answers not appear above the accepted answer?  When it come to badges, accepted answers are second class citizens as compared to a possibly random upvote.   I have seen many upvotes on completely wrong answers but rarely do I see an accepted answer that was completely wrong.
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I surprisingly often stumble upon answers which were accepted but clearly not upvoted by the asker. For example, the answer has not received any upvotes at all or the asker’s vote count is zero. While I acknowledge that , most such cases happen with new users, who have only recently received the privilege to vote and who upvote after a friendly reminder.  Given the anonymity of votes and that I do not check the asker’s profile for every question with an accepted answer I stumbled upon, I assume that there is a huge dark figure for this phenomenon. Also, I naturally most often spot this on my own answers, which makes reminding the asker of their privileges somewhat awkward.  I thus propose that users which accept an answer are reminded by a pop-up that they can upvote it, if:   They haven’t already upvoted it. They have the reputation required for voting. They have cast less than a handful of votes.   I consider the latter criterion to be better than an upper reputation for which the message is displayed, since I know at least one user with several thousand reputation points, who has cast much less upvotes or votes on answers than he has accepted answers on some sites (not that his acceptance rate or general feedback on answers is spectacular).