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Meta: Why can another user accept an answer to my question?
I asked the question How to prevent Unity from renaming public variables? on Unity Answers.
Out of a sudden I got a notification that someone else has accepted an answer to my question.
I can't even Remove this answer's accepted status.
This is not only very different from the SE/SO sites I am used to, but also deprives me of the possibility to maybe accept a different, more fitting answer to my very own question.
How is this possible? Is that intended procedure?
This is possible because of this. The questions here should be general questions about Unity. So "personal questions" are actually wrong here. They belong to the forum. Only high Karma ppl can accept answers on other peoples questions. Personally i only accept an answer if:
The question and answer is at least 7 days old
The answer is correct (and i'm 99% sure of that).
The OP hasn't been on for a few days or doesn't react to comments.
This is just cleanup work because the OP somehow missed to accept an answer or (like most new users) just don't know that he should. In most cases a comment to the OP should be enough.
There's always a chance that someone "abuses" his abilities, however if he has enough karma to accept an answer it's unlikely that he does this in an abusive way.
This site is ment as knowledge base and not a usual Q&A site. It's like a selfgrowing collections of common problems you might stumble on when using Unity.
btw; If you want us to remove the accepted status on your question you have to tell us. However as far as i know after 24h it's no longer possible to change it.
Besides that the answer is correct. Unity "beautifies" variable names for displaying it in the inspector. I'm also not a friend of that behaviour, but the only possibility to change that is to write a custom inspector for your class.
For the time being i've unaccepted the answer so you can take your time to wait for other answers or post your own. $$anonymous$$eep in $$anonymous$$d that "Neurological" lost the karma he got from the accepted state, so if you don't find another, better answer you might want to accept it again ;)
@Bunny83 whether or not the answer is correct is, as stated, not the point here - it is about respecting the asking user. Please see my reasons on the forum, and let's further discuss there.
@Bunny83 Thank you. And of course I might accept it again!
