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User gets too much karma when an administrator marks a self-answer as accepted
I noticed a question on my hosted site that the asker had posted his own (comprehensive) answer for. However, he did not mark the answer as accepted.
Having administrator privileges, I went ahead and marked the answer as accepted.
Whether or not it was my place to do so is another matter; for now we'll just assume it was justified for the purpose of establishing context to describe this issue (:
When I refreshed the page, I noticed that the user had gained 15 karma for his answer being marked as accepted. However, this is not correct; because the user answered his own question, he should not have gotten a karma bonus for the accept.
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User gets too much karma when an administrator marks a self-answer as accepted
I noticed a question on my hosted site that the asker had posted his own (comprehensive) answer for. However, he did not mark the answer as accepted.
Having administrator privileges, I went ahead and marked the answer as accepted.
Whether or not it was my place to do so is another matter; for now we'll just assume it was justified for the purpose of establishing context to describe this issue (:
When I refreshed the page, I noticed that the user had gained 15 karma for his answer being marked as accepted. However, this is not correct; because the user answered his own question, he should not have gotten a karma bonus for the accept.
Also, I noticed that I got 2 karma for accepting the answer, even though it wasn't my question.
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User gets too much Incorrect karma awarded when an administrator marks a self-answer as acceptedaccepted answer for another user's question
I noticed a question on my hosted site that the asker had posted his own (comprehensive) answer for. However, he did not mark the answer as accepted.
Having administrator privileges, I went ahead and marked the answer as accepted.
Whether or not it was my place to do so is another matter; for now we'll just assume it was justified for the purpose of establishing context to describe this issue (:
When I refreshed the page, I noticed that the user had gained 15 karma for his answer being marked as accepted. However, this is not correct; because the user answered his own question, he should not have gotten a karma bonus for the accept.
Also, I noticed that I got 2 karma for accepting the answer, even though it wasn't my question.
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Incorrect karma awarded when an administrator marks accepted answer for another user's question
I noticed a question on my hosted site that the asker had posted his own (comprehensive) answer for. However, he did not mark the answer as accepted.
Having administrator privileges, I went ahead and marked the answer as accepted.
Whether or not it was my place to do so is another matter; for now we'll just assume it was justified for the purpose of establishing context to describe this issue (:
When I refreshed the page, I noticed that the user had gained 15 karma for his answer being marked as accepted. However, this is not correct; because the user answered his own question, he should not have gotten a karma bonus for the accept.
Also, I noticed that I got 2 karma for accepting the answer, even though it wasn't my question.
