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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.

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.

Incorrect User gets too much karma awarded when an administrator marks accepted answer for another user's questiona 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.

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.