Lately on money I have been noticing a large number of questions where the OP abandoned the question or did not bother selecting/like the answers provided.
As this is not a personal advice site, I guess the community in general can decide if one of the answers provided meet the selection criteria and mark it accordingly?
The community can vote answers up or down, but there is no mechanism for accepting an answer on the OP's behalf. Only the OP has this capability.
Yet, there's also no requirement that there be an accepted answer to the question. A question can remain without an "accepted" answer indefinitely.
Personally, I consider the "accept answer" action strictly as a way for the asker to award extra reputation to an answer they found most helpful. It need not be the "best" or "most-correct" answer.
As Chris W. Rea explained, there's no requirement for an answer to be accepted on every question.
An accepted answer often just means the asker found the answer most helpful, but it's not always an indication of the best, most comprehensive, or the most correct answer. The only person who can pick the answer that was most helpful to the asker is the asker themselves, but the community can pick the answer it likes best through upvoting it.
There are no plans to introduce a "community acceptance" feature at this time.
