Whenever I browse the TechNet Forums I'm (obviously) looking for the "Accepted Answer".
However, experience of the last year shows: 90% of them are just useless.
- Whenever the TC does not answer, a moderator proposes an answer "as Solution"
- few weeks later this is the "accepted answer" - even if it was just a "I-would-recommend" or "have-you-tried" post.
I think this totally kills the idea of marking an answer as "correct / accepted".
I understand, that it looks better to have an accepted answer on "every" question - but if almost none of the "accepted answers" is of any value, it's worth nothing.
So - my proposal - leave the decision about an accepted answer up to the OP. If he doesn't respond, leave the question "unanswered".
This would INCREASE the quality of the TechNet-Forums. (Compare to Stack-Overflow, where EVERY accepted answer is selected by the OP and therefore REALLY solves the actual Problem rather than beeing some "bla-bla"-Answer with a skyrocketing amount
of upvotes that sounds legit.)
ps.: Posting this, because:
- I posted 23 Questions
- 16 have an answer marked as "accepted answer"
- only a few of the "accepted answers" actually solved My Problem.
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So, just from a users Point of view:
- 2 questions with accepted answers on ServerFault? Great, there are two Options!!!
- 16 questions with accepted answers on TechNet? Let's see, maybe one works...
cheers,
dognose
