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Right. But since the date/time stamp of a Question's original post is not shown in the list of questions, I have often relied on the view count to signal when an Answer posted to an old question needs an extra look. Since the old questions that typically attract commercial product spammers often have view counts in the thousands, they stick out like a sore thumb in the list.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Maybe add a zombie icon to them?
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 Not a bad idea. I assume you mean where the star and checkmark icons are shown.
I was going to ask how old you think a question needs to be to earn one of those, but on the other hand I can't really define when my view-count-alarm triggers, so...
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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It's not just the zombie items and spammers... many new members end up posting a "solution" to their own question and making it drop out of the list. I used to spot these by seeing posts with 1 solution + very few views and go in and let them know. Much harder to spot now - maybe a warning when they try to post a solution to their own post??
It also took me a few minutes to realise that OriginalGriff was not a new topic in QA  Too much holiday-hooch I think!
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How can an enquirer indicate acceptance of an answer in the message board?
Please do some changes to differentiate threads/messages(normal & accepted). In Q/A section, green background-header indicates accepted answer.
thatrajaCode converters | Education Needed
No thanks, I am all stocked up. - Luc Pattyn
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is - Henry Minute
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I just voted to approve an article, and then I saw "5 reports". I thought that the article would have been published after my vote, but when I refreshed, it wasn't published. So I voted again to approve, and then I saw "1 report".
Is this a bug, or am I missing something?
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You're missing something... you're missing 4 reports to be precise.
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The article was updated between the time you reported and the time you refreshed.
It happens.
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The problem went away after I cleared the cache.
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The following search query results in a blank page with empty combo boxes:
[auto hide] and MFC
The popup says that I can use "brackets" in my query.
Using IE 11 on Win 8.1 Pro x64
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
modified 27-Dec-13 19:55pm.
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Works fine for me. What browser are you using?
I am using FF 26.0 on Windows 8.1 Professional x64
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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IE 11 on Win 8.1 pro x64.
Does it return any results for you? Are you sure you entered the query exactly as I posted it?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Tried IE, cannot replicate your issue. I simply copy-pasted the query.
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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I just tried it in FF and it does work there. I keep forgetting to announce the browser version when I post bugs!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I am not sure whether this has already been suggested.
In user profile page we can see the number of Answers the user has posted but there is no way of knowing the number of answers accepted as solution. An idea could be to show the total number of "answers accepted as solutions" in the profile page.
Using this I can look at my profile page and see that if number of accepted answers are less, I need to improve the quality of my answers.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream. Discover.
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Shouldn't you strive to provide the highest quality answers, regardless of them being accepted or not?
You can look at your answers and see if they have been accepted (green check), there just isn't an accepted answer count on the page. I'm not sure how knowing the number would help. I think watching your points for downvotes is a better way.
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Totally agreed. But it wouldn't harm to show this count on the profile page. Just some extra information one might use in some way.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream. Discover.
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Other than as a vanity count, what purpose does it serve? Why not have a count of answers that are downvoted, or answers that haven't been accepted? This is all extra information that you might use in some way.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Other than as a vanity count
Bullseye
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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When did you implement this option[^]? 
I saw one here[^], two guys replied there.
thatrajaCode converters | Education Needed
No thanks, I am all stocked up. - Luc Pattyn
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is - Henry Minute
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I type @thatraja and nothing happens 
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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@Richard-MacCutchan You seem to be correct.
well adding the - works. Maybe it only works with real names.
David
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David C# Hobbyist. wrote: Maybe it only works with real names.
Weird, mine's not very real.
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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Let's see if this works: @thatraja.
[OK, found the problem. Working on it...and fixed. Will be sorted out next deploy]
modified 27-Dec-13 22:18pm.
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Chris, have a look at my reply to the thatraja message. I used my member name and... it doesn't work properly if the name of member contains two or more elements, for example:
@Maciej Los
@Sergey Aleksandrovich Kryukov
@Peter Leow
@Christian Graus
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You need to use your user name, not your display name. Usernames have no spaces and so work for all sorts of fun things (more to come). Display names are messy human readable things good only for messy human type creatures.
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