Re: can we kill the closed: question is answered feature on ask fedora?

2015-03-27 Thread Pete Travis
On 03/25/2015 12:00 AM, Pete Travis 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

Re: can we kill the closed: question is answered feature on ask fedora?

2015-03-25 Thread Pete Travis
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

Re: can we kill the closed: question is answered feature on ask fedora?

2015-03-25 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
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

Re: can we kill the closed: question is answered feature on ask fedora?

2015-03-25 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 09:27:46AM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: I don't object. Is there a way to say This problem was solved for me. by the original poster? Absolutely -- they can put a checkmark by an answer, which a) marks that answer as such, b) gives extra karma to the person who

Re: can we kill the closed: question is answered feature on ask fedora?

2015-03-25 Thread Pete Travis
On Mar 25, 2015 9:28 AM, Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com wrote: 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:

Re: can we kill the closed: question is answered feature on ask fedora?

2015-03-25 Thread David Gay
- Original Message - From: Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org To: Fedora Infrastructure infrastructure@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 9:04:37 AM Subject: Re: can we kill the closed: question is answered feature on ask fedora? On Wed, Mar 25, 2015

Re: can we kill the closed: question is answered feature on ask fedora?

2015-03-25 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 02:46:38PM -0400, David Gay wrote: I never understood why the close answered questions practice was adopted. I assume there was a good reason, but I've never heard of a Q/A site doing that (ex. Stack Exchange). I think it comes from webforums, and is a workaround for

can we kill the closed: question is answered feature on ask fedora?

2015-03-24 Thread Matthew Miller
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

Re: can we kill the closed: question is answered feature on ask fedora?

2015-03-24 Thread David Gay
- 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