Looking for questions to answer, I browse through mainly three types of questions:
- questions with no answer.
- questions with unaccepted answer(s) which seems like the OP didn't find the time to check the answer(s) or to mark one of them as accepted.
- questions with unaccepted answer(s) which the OP commented on the answer(s) to explain why they don't provide the requested output within the required limitations.
While types 1 and 3 are intersecting to answer, type 2 has higher probability to be a waste of time.
The question is whether it is possible to identify case 3 question using the filter?
Do you think it would be helpful to allow the OP to mark unaccepted answers In a way that would mark the question as one that all of its current answers are unaccepted by the OP?
Regarding some of the comments and answers here, I understand the importance of maintaining a knowledge base, and that this is the main goal here.
Nevertheless, the way I see it, I answer questions not just for the sake of maintaining a knowledge base, but also to help people solve their tech problems. The acceptance tells me that this person does not need help any more, and I can focus on other questions...
Am I way off here? (from the answers it seems so)