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[nicholassolutions]

Ahh, and I thought I'd seen tha last of the "multilingual debate". But then I AM a young and foolish American :D
I'm glad to see there are no civil wars at ERT ;-)

Regarding the "closing" of questions -- I personally vote "No", for exactly the reason that VGR mentioned. I don't want this site turning into another Q&A, and I like the fact that discussions are not closed over here. I like the fact that discussions at ERT are not "hey, fix this code for me...OK thanks talk to you later" -- they're not "problem-based" discussions, they are concept-based instead. I think we *do* need to work harder at cleaning up the forums and converting discussions into articles, but that's another issue...my $0.02 anyways...

[fedoracore]

oops! darnit i almost "removed" the topic again! hee hee (does that delete the thread?)

anyway-- sorry for opening a discussion and then wondering off to stare and shiny metal objects n play w/ butterflies n stuff...

as one who has little to gain from such a modification, my input on the matter-- and probably why the thought occurred to me in the first place... the idea of scanning through various threads, trying to figure out which might have a "solution" to an issue-- as it could perhaps make the needle a bit more easy to find in the haystack-- but that would require a user to actually use the Search feature... ya probably have a statistic on that (percent of visits-search-no post / visits-search-post / visits-post ?)... but other than that, and the aforementioned "benefit" to mentors, any real enhancement would surely be insubstantial.

my perception of a resolved thread is not the same as closing a thread-- in that replies and continued conversation are not prohibited. i perceive the "concept" to be an indicator of a "solution lies within"... but then again, i smoka-da-peace-pipe so what do i know. ha!
:)

[coral1]

my perception of a resolved thread is not the same as closing a thread-- in that replies and continued conversation are not prohibited. i perceive the "concept" to be an indicator of a "solution lies within"...

Hmmmmm... that's an interesting twist.

sorry for opening a discussion and then wondering off to stare and shiny metal objects n play w/ butterflies n stuff...

Not a problem. We all do that.   : )

i almost "removed" the topic again! hee hee (does that delete the thread?)

If I remember correctly, only if you do it in your question post. Other wise it just takes out that single post. I won't swear to that because I have been staring at shiny metal objects myself.

[Huntress]

The simplest way to do this is for the thread author to "Modify" the first post which gives the option to change/add text to the subject.  -OR- The authors could PM me and I can mark them as resolved in the subject.

[VGR]

I think askers can change/edit the subject to say [resolved] (probably resolved ;-), but the problem is he/she won't always come back to do so, having obtained his/her answer.
so probably a site admin of some sort should do it after a while, by default.
the same could be said of old threads slowly dying, marking them as [unresolved] would probably give them a second chance of being adressed.
0.02 U$D thoughts ;-)

[Huntress]

I'm going to give some thought on the wording since we are a teaching site.  It seems better to use words that stay in that frame of mind.

[coral1]

I'm going to give some thought on the wording since we are a teaching site.  It seems better to use words that stay in that frame of mind.

Good idea.

We need to try to keep it with the Asker.
We can't really set up a CV at this time.   : /

[Huntress]

Good idea.

We need to try to keep it with the Asker.
We can't really set up a CV at this time.   : /

As long as we can agree on the wording I can write up a stickie and post it to all the forums in the form of instructions.

[coral1]

The more I think about it, the more complicated it gets.  : /

I love a good Thought Puzzle.  : )

[Huntress]

Ok, how's this....We mark the thread as "Mentored" when a resolution has been reached, and "Studying" if it has been open for too long without a resolution?

[VGR]

"unresolved" or "unmentored", not studying (because it has been studied but "unresolved" and now dates back a lot)
or "to be mentored" or "nobody knows"

[coral1]

Ok, how's this....We mark the thread as "Mentored" when a resolution has been reached, and "Studying" if it has been open for too long without a resolution?

Close. Very close.

Sorry about the "Last Edited" comment in your last post, VGR.
I didn't change anything. I was just checking to see if it was possible to "modify" the Subject line to indicate what answer worked for that question.

RESOLUTION

The main issue I am having is; different answers can solve similar seeming problems.
So besides marking the main Subject line to indicate the status of the Q., it would be helpful to mark the post that Did help, plus the ones that are also possible fixes.

On the other hand, just marking the main Subject might be enough to let people know Answer(s) are in there.

Then again....

and I just keep going round-n-round.  : /

[Huntress]

Would that work?

[coral1]

Very funny!
That big RED Resolution almost make me wet myself.   : P

But that does the job. We can put a note with the descriptions of what the Terms mean, saying:

The post marked Resolution; may not be the only one for a given problem.

[Huntress]

Point taken.  :-)