Mark posts as SOLVED

[iFunKtion]

Is there a way to mark a post as SOLVED at all. I find SOLVED threads in forums extremely useful and I for one try my hardest to document any solutions that I have on a thread in the event that others find it useful.

[metulburr]

This forum group never seemed to be big on marking threads solved. Most people do not mark their threads solved if the option was available...and to fix it would put the extra work on mods/admins to edit even more posts to mark the thread solved. 

@admins and mods
But if admins/mods wanted to take on the extra load of making sure threads were marked as solved when they are....?

[Ofnuts]

In this forum most threads are answered/solved. And even if the OP didn't understand the suggested solutions someone else could benefit from them.

[snippsat]

@admins and mods
But if admins/mods wanted to take on the extra load of making sure threads were marked as solved when they are....?

Nooo :hand: 

I have looked at it and MySupport,
that MyBB use for this is sketchy.
It's not like a simple plugin,have to do a lot of changes,so no.

[metulburr]

Im not worried about installing the plugin...i just dont like the idea of enforcing it.

[micseydel]

I actually like the idea of being able to mark an accepted answer, and keep track of answered vs unanswered threads. I thought a big reason for not doing it before was the lack of control. That said, I don't feel strongly enough about it to want to get it working myself, so there's that.

[j.crater]

I like the idea of having threads marked as solved (or answers accepted). But since many (if not most) of users wouldn't be persistently marking threads/answers, the benefit would be lost and only cause confusion IMO.

[micseydel]

But since many (if not most) of users wouldn't be persistently marking threads/answers, the benefit would be lost and only cause confusion IMO.

In theory, we could have different states like, answered, accepted answer, awaiting questioner, etc. Not saying it's worth the effort, but in principal we could accommodate everything.

[metulburr]

Ill install the plugin and test it out. This one is a big one with a lot of templates edits. So dont be surprised by something wonky here or there.

[Ofnuts]

But since many (if not most) of users wouldn't be persistently marking threads/answers, the benefit would be lost and only cause confusion IMO.

In theory, we could have different states like, answered, accepted answer, awaiting questioner, etc. Not saying it's worth the effort, but in principal we could accommodate everything.

Why not? After all, there is nothing we need more than a Python forum that looks so much like the defect management systems we use at work... 

Srsly...