I'm my own Best Answer

October 1, 2005 5:54 PM

You can't flag your own replies to an AxeMe (suck it, haters) as a "Best Answer." This sucks in those rare events you did not get your question answered satisfactorily and you want to leave a resolution for posterity.
posted by keswick to Feature Requests at 5:54 PM (16 comments total)

Yes, you can. I did it here. Just type in your own comment number.
posted by iconomy at 6:02 PM on October 1, 2005

You can. Just not in the most user-friendly of manners.
posted by Count Ziggurat at 6:24 PM on October 1, 2005

You can't flag your own comments in other threads, however. Damn, that would've been a cute hole.
posted by Ryvar at 7:15 PM on October 1, 2005

*axes keswick, wipes smock*
posted by mr_crash_davis at 7:39 PM on October 1, 2005

Ask MetaFilter: Suck it, haters.
posted by mystyk at 8:20 PM on October 1, 2005

I'm interested why Matt (presumably) disable this feature. As "Best Answers" are not counted anywhere, there's no real gratification from having a best answer other than helping other people with a similar question, ergo the "Best Answer" abuse factor would be quite low.
posted by geoff. at 9:01 PM on October 1, 2005

Yeah, I've been meaning to lift this ban for some time.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 9:21 PM on October 1, 2005

Buy a second account, log in with said second account, post answer, log out. Log in with primary account, mark as best answer. Done.
posted by Rothko at 10:51 PM on October 1, 2005

Pay money for MeFi? You crack me up.
posted by keswick at 12:08 AM on October 2, 2005

"Pay money for MeFi?"
Keswick: Why you gotta make me break out the sad emoticon?

:(


posted by TwelveTwo at 12:14 AM on October 2, 2005

It was bigger in preview. Most curious!
posted by TwelveTwo at 12:15 AM on October 2, 2005

It was bigger in preview. Most curious!

Didn't you hear? The big tag has gone the way of keswick's tact.
posted by gramschmidt at 12:58 AM on October 2, 2005

And now I bring it out a second time:

:(
posted by TwelveTwo at 9:01 AM on October 2, 2005

gramschmidt: "Didn't you hear? The big tag has gone the way of keswick's tact."

Mathowie coded keswick's tact out? That wasn't too nice of him. I was using it.
posted by Plutor at 5:11 PM on October 2, 2005

Metafilter: it was bigger in preview.
posted by clevershark at 8:32 PM on October 2, 2005

Yeah, I've been meaning to lift this ban for some time.
Yep, since April.
posted by tellurian at 5:09 PM on October 3, 2005