On 25 March 2015 at 00:00, Pete Travis <li...@petetravis.com> wrote: > On 03/24/2015 10:51 PM, David Gay wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Matthew Miller" <mat...@fedoraproject.org> > >> To: infrastructure@lists.fedoraproject.org > >> Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2015 6:13:07 PM > >> Subject: can we kill the "closed: question is answered" feature on ask > fedora? > >> > >> I might have complained about this before, but now I'm serious. :) It's > >> incredibly counterintuitive and weird to have questions closed because > >> they're answered, I guess unless they're an individual issue that only > >> affects one person. Anything that might be helpful later and which has > >> a helpful answer should be the _opposite_ of closed! > >> > >> -- > >> Matthew Miller > >> <mat...@fedoraproject.org> > >> Fedora Project Leader > >> _______________________________________________ > >> infrastructure mailing list > >> infrastructure@lists.fedoraproject.org > >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure > > I forgot about this! Closing the question removes it from > visibility/searchability, right? If so, killing this feature makes sense to > me. > > > > -- David > > _______________________________________________ > > infrastructure mailing list > > infrastructure@lists.fedoraproject.org > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure > Closing the question adds a blockquote that says "This question was > closed by 'person' because 'the question has been answered and the > answer was accepted'". Users can continue to comment, suggest answers, > edit, post comments as answers, contribute inaccurate answers, whatever, > as long as they aren't deterred by the closed banner. Basically, I > agree about it being a silly reason to close a question, except that it > might do things that it isn't actually doing. So, +1 from me, let's turn > it off. > > Amusingly, the only way to access the list of close reasons is to have > moderation turned on, and start choosing reasons to reject a post :) > I'll remove this soon, unless someone gets to it or strenuously objects > soon. > > --Pete > > I don't object. Is there a way to say "This problem was solved for me." by the original poster?
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