On Mar 25, 2015 9:28 AM, "Stephen John Smoogen" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 25 March 2015 at 00:00, Pete Travis <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 03/24/2015 10:51 PM, David Gay wrote: >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> >> From: "Matthew Miller" <[email protected]> >> >> To: [email protected] >> >> 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 >> >> <[email protected]> >> >> Fedora Project Leader >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> infrastructure mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> 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 >> > [email protected] >> > 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? > > There is a mechanism to mark an answer as 'correct' ; the status also shows in list/search views. The original poster needs 10 karma to mark a correct answer to their question; which is a handful of upvotes or comments, very minimal participation. Anyone with a moderately higher level of karma can mark answers to other's questions as correct. There's an adequate level of signal that a 'good' answer has been provided.
--Pete
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