How to un-answer a question?
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Being new here I'm pressing all sorts of buttons and breaking things...
I posted a question, liked someone's answer so click "good answer" thinking it was like a "thumbs up" but it actually set my question to "answered".
How does one set their own question to un-answered?
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Yes. You are correct. They are called MozPoints. To get more info click on your profile and then click on the "MozPoints" hyperlink. A popup will open and tell you everything about MozPoints.
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Ah so people get points?! I'll have to research what they do but don't worry Dana, the points you shall keep!
But yes, a good feature would be to be able to set a question to unanswered.
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Hey guys! Thanks for jumping in here. You definitely bring up a good question and the answer is unfortunately that right now you can't change that. We do have a number of issues in the queue to be fixed, and I'll check to see if that's in there as well.
Sorry I don't have a better answer right now!
Jen
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Good suggestion Nakul!
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The question remains open for answers anyways...but you may want to post it as an ongoing discussion instead of a question. I don't think there's anything that can be done except to post it again.
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LOL - Okay, I'm the answerer so it's against my own self-interest to jump in and try to help here, lol, but hey, that's the kind of community SEOMoz is.
I actually went into some of my own old Q&A questions and tried to uncheck some answers to see if I could figure out how to do it. No matter what I did I could get the answer to flag from "asnwered" to "unanswered." You can easily change a thumbs up by clicking thumbs down instead and then you can change it back to thumbs up again by clicking thumbs up again.
I think you bring up a great usability point. I totally agree that we should be able to change a question from "answered" to "unanswered," because sometimes we think we have a workable answer but then it doesn't work or requires follow up.
No worries. I don't mind losing the points. I don't want points if I didn't really answer a question.
Dana
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