Should Post be marked Solved

[fleamailman]

FMM / Lina: I took Lina's suggestion and moved your 'discussion within a discussion' to its own thread. I personally take the view the threads are very seldon 'over' because additional insights can be added. This is particularly true for John's BSOD because the problem was neither explained or solved, it just went away. If a thread has reached its useful limit, I suspect that one of the moderators will lock and leave it for reference. Terry


this thread in now

SOLVED

[fleamailman]

So we leave this thread as unsolve so everyone has to read it to the end to find that out, is the only reason why I wrote solved. I wasn't gloating but saving the reader's time here, thanks for the advise though

[mommalina]

So we leave this thread as unsolve so everyone has to read it to the end to find that out, is the only reason why I wrote solved. I wasn't gloating but saving the reader's time here, thanks for the advise though

All this has me wondering:

- I don't understand the reason to post a thread SOLVED. As experienced
here, subsequent posts may contradict that assessment. Further, subsequent
posts may offer helpful suggestions or insight as to why the problem
occurred in the first place. Why the need to mark it SOLVED?

-If we're going to mark posts SOLVED, why only at the end of the thread
and not also on the Forums page, next to the thread's title?

Marking threads as SOLVED may help those seeking a solution via
SEARCH.....so maybe that's the purpose?

Lina

[fleamailman]

lina, you are right, it should be the title of the thread, but on this site we can't edit it ourselves, only mods can, so the best would be to edit the first post

also if it is marked solved at the end and then if there are more posts under that then, well no harm and one knows without reading that it continues whereas if the last post has solved and nothing more one can move onto the next post, but where nothing is written people may continue offering help where it is not needed or repeatedly return to the post hoping the there is more

I suppose I just like that tech guy's way then where they have a tag that the poster can use to mark his own post as solved

[mommalina]

Flea wrote: lina, you are right, it should be the title of the thread, but on this site we can't edit it ourselves, only mods can, so the best would be to edit the first post

I suggest when editing the first post that:

- a dark blue asterisk be typed next to what is going to be edited, and

- the edited version (with dark blue asterisk) be placed at the end of that first post.

- the edited version also be the subject of a
subsequent post (the new version, why it was
changed).

Thus a new reader will know the post has been
edited, and a user who reads New Posts will also become aware of the editing. This should
avoid confusion. ....:confused:

When I used to type engineering specifications, we did not edit the original. We issued amendments to it. That's
where I'm coming from, I guess.

My two cents....again

Lina

[mommalina]

Terry: Perhaps we should start a new thread
about marking a topic SOLVED and how to
EDIT a post?

Looks like Flea and I got off-topic here. Sorry.

Lina

[fleamailman]

no more coment from me, promise, on with your original topic then