<p>We sometimes encourage negligent posters to review how the site works and, in particular, to accept good answers if they can.  This is a task that high-reputation community members often take on.  When you <em>politely</em> address this <em>general</em> behavior it does the site some good.</p>

<p>A large number of the requests to accept an answer that I have seen come from people whose answers aren't that great in the first place: they are effectively rushing or even bullying the OP into a premature acceptance. People notice when you do this and if you do it too often you may acquire an "invisible" negative reputation.  This amounts to a sense among the frequent voters in the community that you are in this only to drive up your reputation. It would only be natural for them to tend to cut you less slack and refrain from upvoting some of your marginal posts. (Some folks might enjoy doing a tongue-in-cheek Bayesian analysis of this phenomenon :-).)</p>

<p>If, after a suitable period of time (several days at least) you have posted an answer that, based on community votes, is clearly superior to the others, then you might post a comment that <em>subtly</em> reminds the OP of the value of marking one of the answers as accepted.</p>
