tea.mathoverflow.net - Discussion Feed (Accepting an answer for a community-wiki question) Sun, 04 Nov 2018 23:16:49 -0800 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.9 & Feed Publisher WillieWong comments on "Accepting an answer for a community-wiki question" (12355) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/872/accepting-an-answer-for-a-communitywiki-question/?Focus=12355#Comment_12355 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/872/accepting-an-answer-for-a-communitywiki-question/?Focus=12355#Comment_12355 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 08:11:53 -0800 WillieWong There's of course the one exception to the rule: when the question gets edited too many times by the OP....

]]> Anton Geraschenko comments on "Accepting an answer for a community-wiki question" (12313) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/872/accepting-an-answer-for-a-communitywiki-question/?Focus=12313#Comment_12313 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/872/accepting-an-answer-for-a-communitywiki-question/?Focus=12313#Comment_12313 Sun, 02 Jan 2011 01:24:52 -0800 Anton Geraschenko I agree with Scott. It almost always strikes me as really weird when a CW question has an accepted answer.

]]> Scott Carnahan comments on "Accepting an answer for a community-wiki question" (12304) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/872/accepting-an-answer-for-a-communitywiki-question/?Focus=12304#Comment_12304 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/872/accepting-an-answer-for-a-communitywiki-question/?Focus=12304#Comment_12304 Sat, 01 Jan 2011 14:10:39 -0800 Scott Carnahan I don't think it is necessary, and I would discourage it in most cases. There have been some big-list CW questions where one answer was accepted from a large pool, and to me, the choice often seemed to be rather strange and arbitrary.

If I remember correctly, designating a CW answer as accepted does not award any points to the account that started the answer.

]]> Timothy Chow comments on "Accepting an answer for a community-wiki question" (12303) http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/872/accepting-an-answer-for-a-communitywiki-question/?Focus=12303#Comment_12303 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/872/accepting-an-answer-for-a-communitywiki-question/?Focus=12303#Comment_12303 Sat, 01 Jan 2011 13:18:46 -0800 Timothy Chow Ideally, is one supposed to accept an answer even for a community-wiki question for which, by definition, there is no single right answer? I looked at a few of the most popular big-list questions on MO and did not see a de facto consensus on the matter. I ask because common sense suggests that it is ridiculous for me to, say, accept one of the 50+ answers to my recent question about the Museum of Mathematics as the "right answer"; at the same time, I get the vibe that one is always "supposed" to accept an answer unless no satisfactory answers are provided.

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