<p>As I stated in <a href="https://stats.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2798/drive-by-questions-should-answers-be-accepted-by-proxy#comment8598_2798">my comment above</a>:</p>
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<p>It has been addressed and declined <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3669/would-it-be-possible-to-have-a-community-accepted-feature">here</a> ;)</p>
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<p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/3672/208518">The top answer in that post</a> nails it down pretty well:</p>
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<p>The number of up-votes shows the level of acceptance by the community.</p>
<p>If the &quot;accepted answer&quot; has no up-votes, but yours has 12, clearly yours is the community-accepted answer :)</p>
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