If I accept an answer in my question, how can I retract my proposal (and accept another)?    Furthermore, will I lose any reputation retracting answer acception? Will the answerer lose any reputation with his answer being retracted?
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What does it mean to accept an answer? How do I accept an answer, and what are the rules? Can I accept my own self-answer? What are the reputation benefits? Which answer should I accept? Should I upvote the accepted answer? What should I do if none of the answers are suitable?      For more information, see "" in the .
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Sometimes you give an answer to a question where:   You know it is the right answer You know it resolves OP's problems There's no answer "better" than yours You have spent time and effort on it Other users like it with several upvotes   BUT  OP that asked the question does not accept it with the green checkmark.  What annoys me is not the mere -15 points on reputation because, as well said by Jeff, if the answer is a good answer, the community will upvote it. I would like to get the green checkmark on pending questions for two main reason:   Personal satisfaction (what I answered, helped and worked for real!) Curiosity (Did it work? Cool, I can "close the case" and remember this solution)   Bonus reason: 3.  Good breeding (why not?)  I know that the system warns a user to accept an answer when he/she leaves questions without accepted answers after X days but, from the answerer's point of view, there's no way to put some "pressure" on who asked the question. Ok, I could ping the user with "Did it worked?", "have you tried?", "What about my solution?", "Still alive?" but imho that is not a good, official, effective option.  This feature fits well in these scenarios (thanks ccornet):  - The OP is new, unaware that answers can be accepted.  - The OP forgot about the question, and due to sort order in their profile, never saw it again.  My proposal: Having received X upvotes and after Y days, is it possible to have a "WAKE UP" feature where you can send a private predefined message to the OP who asked the question?    You could realize it in different flavors: 1. A voice recorded "WAKE UP" screamed when user logs in. 2. A red bloody "WAKE UP" message on users activity. 3. A blinking horse head near username.    Obviously, this is just a provocation. This feature could be implemented with a SOFT PRIVATE and absolutely PREDEFINED alert message.
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was originally asked August 9, and received answers. A month later, the OP  the question, invalidating the existing answers. I rolled it back, and left a comment to say that a new question should be opened, but the OP changed it back saying "There is no rule about it, so you can't edit my post."  There is also a bounty on this question, making things more interesting.  What are the guidelines on completely changing a question or rolling back changed questions? Was I out-of-line rolling back the question?  I have no desire to get into an edit war, so I'm not going to touch the question again. If a moderator wants to get involved, great.
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A while ago I asked , and got an answer which I upvoted and accepted.  Recently the thread about closing 'typo' questions made me realise that's essentially what my question is - no one else is ever likely to have the same problem. Should I vote to close or delete it? If I do, will the guy who answered lose the 25 rep?
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Is there a way to delete a question after it's been answered, and the answer has an upvote?  Imagine that I have asked a question, that is later considered by me or the community as not useful and/or too specific. Or it gets a lot of downvotes for some reason. While it is not closed or flagged as a duplicate yet, someone could still answered it. Once answered, I cannot delete it any longer.  Is there a way to delete such question? Without having moderator privileges (to delete at will), is casting close votes the only way? I think I should have more control over the fate my own questions.  (On another example, I had a self-answered question where I was able to delete it only after unaccepting my own answer.)
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I submitted a manuscript to a journal, but due to some issue with that I asked the Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editor to withdraw the manuscript from further consideration. Despite several emails, they are not still responding me nor ended the process.  Now, what should I do? Can I submit the manuscript to another journal?
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So... from a while back, I posted a question dealing with implementing a certain feature within an iPad app (no specifics, see  for question), and I noticed that there was an approved edit by a user named Zephyer who posted something about Windows 7.  After a face-palm, I re-edited my question to bring it back in line with my query.  So, my question then is: What the heck do we do with the occasional stupid/irrelevant edit?  I know it doesn't happen often, but there's got to be something other than just re-editing I can do!    EDIT: Excellent suggestions.  To clarify two things though:   This post is quite old.  I was a new user at the time, unaware of the rollback feature if it even existed at the time of it's posting. I just wanted to know if there was some way to get the attention of the editor.  It doesn't need to be a downvote or a flag, just a message, or an indication.
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I recently tried to un-upvote a comment, and received a message that if I did so, I would not be able to upvote it again:     Are you sure you want to undo your upvote on this comment? You will not be able to upvote it again.   Unlike , I completely understand what the message is saying. However, why am I not allowed to upvote it again? What's the reasoning behind this decision?
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It seems that now we can retract close votes but we cannot retract reopen votes or delete votes.  I am trying to retract my reopen vote  but it does not allow me to.  Can we have that ability?
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I goofed and rejected a suggested edit, a vote that was actually directed at the previous edit that I was reviewing. As this is unfair to the user who posted the suggested edit in question, is there any way in which to change/cancel my reject?
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If I were in danger of being banned from asking questions, I'd be advised:     ... Also, edit your previous questions to improve formatting and clarity.   It happened to me, very recently. At the time, I only had three questions here on Meta SE. To quote Shog:     That's one positively-received question, followed by two duplicates - the last downvoted and deleted.   How do I improve a question marked as a duplicate?   Rewrite it to something else? Maybe that's gaming the system but at least its a way out. Rewrite it so that it is better than its predecessor? At least then it can maybe serve as a useful landing spot for a search engine result where the search terms matched it rather than the original. Get into the time machine, go back to just before posting the duplicate, do a better job of searching for alternate wordings of the question, then not post it? The only problem being, the Stack Exchange's search engine is, how to put it, far from perfect. Oh yes, and the time machine thing. Forget about it improving "duplicates" -- focus on improving deleted questions instead? How do I manage that?   Please, rethink the way you handle question banning warnings.
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Some times people accept the answer but don't upvote it. When this happens to me I'm always tempted to ask them to upvote it, but I don't know if I'll look rude or needy lol. Should we ask for upvote when our answer is accepted or just let it go?  (It just happened to me )
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One of my questions got closed, as it was very similar to some other posted questions (though I don't feel the linked questions answered what I was trying to ask).  There's no point to the question staying online, as it doesn't answer anything, so I was going to delete it - but if I do that will it remove the reputation of the helpful answerers I want to upvote?
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When is it reasonable/recommended to add another answer when I have already added one? My doubt comes from  that I  although I find later that the question was not complete. I found a way to solve the problem and was going to post it when I got the "add another answer" question.  So, should I post a new answer in this case or edit the somewhat faulty one? Better yet, when is it appropriate to post another answer?
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I have a situation where I'm trying to figure out what the right thing to do is on SO.    I see a question.  I answer the question.  I see there are a couple other answers.  One answers the question well, though with less explanation than my answer.  The other answer seems both wrong and irrelevant to the question (doesn't answer the question at all).  I comment to that effect.  The "wrong" part is edited out, but the author of the answer doesn't respond to how their answer actually answers the question.  In fact, they seem offended that I don't "get" it.  After giving them several chances to explain how their answer is relevant to the question and seeing their attitude, I decide to downvote their answer as I don't see how it addresses the question at all and the author won't explain.  They retaliate and downvote my answer and admit in their comments that their downvote of my answer has nothing to do with the content of my answer and only because they don't like me disputing their answer.  Did I do the right thing by downvoting their answer?  Do I just have to live with their downvote retaliation?  Anything I should have done differently?  I also have no way of knowing this for sure, but the next question I answered was upvoted, then downvoted so perhaps this same person is stalking my answers and downvoting other answers of mine too with no comment.  As long as this doesn't continue, I'm not losing sleep over a couple downvotes, but I do wonder if I should have done anything differently.  Followup Later After I Posted This Question: After thinking about it for a little while, the person who disagreed with me decided to delete their post.  So, eventually the message did get through to them.  I don't know if they rescinded their downvote or not (or if they even could).
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Today, when you accept an answer you did not provide, you get a +2 reputation, however, if you accept your own answer, you get +0.  I expect the reason for this is to stop people gaming the system by asking and answering their own questions repeatedly.  However, this has the downside of providing a disincentive of accepting your own answer when it seems the best and instead accepting an inferior one in order to get the reputation bonus.  Therefore, I propose that the accept your own answer is only worth zero when there are no answers provided by anyone other than yourself.  I feel this keeps the intent of preventing gaming the system for reputation, while removing disincentive from picking the best answer, even if it is your own.
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. When I took a look at it now, some guy edited my answer, which totally changed the answer and made it wrong. To my surprise, the edit was approved in review. To add to that, that same guy who edited my answer posted his own answer, which ended up being accepted.  Seems like peer review of the edit was taken lightly, and others just want others' answers wrong. From my end, it seems very unfair. What can be done to prevent such events?