How to un-answer a question?

[eatyourveggies]

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?

[danatanseo]

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

[NakulGoyal]

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.

[danatanseo]

Good suggestion Nakul!

[jennita]

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

[eatyourveggies]

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.

[danatanseo]

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.