Marking a Thread Solved ?

dbailey18 · Dec 31, 2006

I think there should be some kind of forum rule here that will help everyone get it in gear.

If not followed then some sort of automatic band from posting anymore until your previous postings are taken care of. It seems to me that more could be taken care of this way, or maybe after so many days (30) or so the posting should be deleted and you would be required to post again or something. Seems to me there is a lot of unanswered or posting's that lead to no where in each and every forum.

iltos · Dec 31, 2006

hmmm....you'd have to enforce that rule, then....and the tech moderators would spend all their time reviewing posts to see if they "went somewhere"......which means you'd get less help in those forums

and that is another one of the difficulties you see...

i grant you that its not a perfect system....that some posted problems are never answered and fall through the cracks....that some people get frustrated by that and feel they are neglected...and that some folks are just not very helpful, either through the info they provide or their way with words......

but i can't imagine any rules that will make it perfect.

EDIT:

lol...or maybe i just don't understand what you're getting at....i just realized that this thread is titled "marking a thread solved"

dbailey18 · Dec 31, 2006

I should have titled it (Rules for).
I was just thinking (which is probably something I shouldn't do ) to maybe help out the forum moderators and the MVPs of the forums in answering or replying to postings. I do read alot in the forums and it just seemed that there was a lot of loose end's here and there.

I have a poor way with words myself at times. It just seems that there might be some way of setting up a way to automatically triggering a posting to be deleted after a certain period of time.

Just trying to be maybe a little to efficient?

iltos · Dec 31, 2006

dbailey18 said:
I should have titled it (Rules for).
I was just thinking (which is probably something I shouldn't do ) to maybe help out the forum moderators and the MVPs of the forums in answering or replying to postings. I do read alot in the forums and it just seemed that there was a lot of loose end's here and there.

you got that right

a big part of it, imo, is that a lot of folks drop their thread before its solved (never come back), or never mark it solved....

methinks they're archived for those few who actually follow the suggestion of searching for a solution/answer to their problem/question before posting

lotta info buried in those threads, i bet.

Just trying to be maybe a little to efficient?

nah....everybody who cares about this site has some notion how to make it better.:up: ..nuttin' wrong with talking 'bout it....

i'm just a stick in the mud

JohnWill · Dec 31, 2006

I think that trying to enforce a "marked solved" rule is an exercise in futility.

I drop my hint whenever I see a thread that needs it.

You can mark your own threads solved using the thread tools at the upper right of the screen.

ferrija1 · Dec 31, 2006

I vote for JohnWill to be our Solved-Button Enforcer.

lexmarks567 · Dec 31, 2006

still people won't now how to do it or just don't bother

ferrija1 · Dec 31, 2006

If we deleted threads after __ days then our archive would be useless and if you needed further assistance you would have to start a new thread.

ferrija1 · Dec 31, 2006

I think we need another red bar at the top every once in a while. We also need people who help solve things to enforce marking threads solved.

JohnWill · Dec 31, 2006

ferrija1 said:
I vote for JohnWill to be our Solved-Button Enforcer.

MARK THAT SOLVED, OR ELSE!

ferrija1 · Dec 31, 2006

Say goodbye to your cop car!

lotuseclat79 · Jan 1, 2007

In some cases, there is only a partial solution available to the author, and so, the author of the thread chooses to keep the thread "unsolved" hoping for more definitive input.

Ergo, not all cases are forgotten by the author upon solution or when no solution exists.

Enforcing marking as solved should only be an author chosen option - I agree with John that it is totally futile to even "try" to enforce such a thing. At times I have written back in the thread and asked the author what the solution was after they solved the problem in a totally different way - mostly be re-installing the OS (as in Windows), or buying a new hard drive rather than actually solving the original problem.

Futile is as futile does!

-- Tom

JohnWill · Jan 1, 2007

ferrija1 said:
Say goodbye to your cop car!

Coming right back at you!

MMJ · Jan 1, 2007

The problem of so many people not getting help is a big one here; the unanswered threads have 500 dating back only to the tenth.

ferrija1 · Jan 1, 2007

Not if I have this!

JohnWill · Jan 1, 2007

MMJ said:
The problem of so many people not getting help is a big one here; the unanswered threads have 500 dating back only to the tenth.

So what's holding you back? Go solve some of those outstanding problems!

Are you waiting for the overworked to catch them?

guitar · Jan 2, 2007

a big red solved button would help
when i first came here it took a while til i found the button
k.i.s.s

MMJ · Jan 2, 2007

JohnWill said:
So what's holding you back? Go solve some of those outstanding problems! Are you waiting for the overworked to catch them?

You probably aren't going to believe this but I have my own problems to solve.

JohnWill · Jan 2, 2007

MMJ said:
You probably aren't going to believe this but I have my own problems to solve.

Yes, we can tell.

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