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How to accept an answer?
Short question: how to accept an answer?
There is no "Accept" button, so I have chosen "Works for me".
Is this the intended way?
(And it looks like I accidentally edited my previous question, hopefully it stays unchanged.)
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Yes, the "works for me" is roughly equivalent to the "accept" on that other site.
The difference is that anyone can do a "works for me," not just the Asker. Note that reactions are not anonymous. The available reactions vary by community so that only relevant ones are shown.[1]
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Hat tip to Monica in the comments. ↩︎
Another answer has already addressed your main question. I'm adding this one for some background.
Early on, we decided that answer "acceptance" as found on some other sites didn't seem to be quite right. We saw two particular issues:
- Why should one person be able to pin an answer to the top for everyone?
- Why should only one person be able to do more than upvote?
In addition, we thought that "worked for me" is not the only kind of "meta-information" people might want to add to answers.
This is why we implemented reactions, which unlike votes are public (attributed). Reactions do not affect the score of a post (you should still upvote answers that are helpful and downvote ones that are deficient). People can and do upvote answers without testing them; the "works for me" reaction is meant as a way to say "I actually did this and it worked". On communities where this concept doesn't make sense, the reaction can be turned off.
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