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On Mar 25, 2015 9:28 AM, "Stephen John Smoogen" <<a href="mailto:smooge@gmail.com">smooge@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On 25 March 2015 at 00:00, Pete Travis <<a href="mailto:lists@petetravis.com">lists@petetravis.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> On 03/24/2015 10:51 PM, David Gay wrote:<br>
>> > ----- Original Message -----<br>
>> >> From: "Matthew Miller" <<a href="mailto:mattdm@fedoraproject.org">mattdm@fedoraproject.org</a>><br>
>> >> To: <a href="mailto:infrastructure@lists.fedoraproject.org">infrastructure@lists.fedoraproject.org</a><br>
>> >> Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2015 6:13:07 PM<br>
>> >> Subject: can we kill the "closed: question is answered" feature on ask fedora?<br>
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>> >> I might have complained about this before, but now I'm serious. :) It's<br>
>> >> incredibly counterintuitive and weird to have questions closed because<br>
>> >> they're answered, I guess unless they're an individual issue that only<br>
>> >> affects one person. Anything that might be helpful later and which has<br>
>> >> a helpful answer should be the _opposite_ of closed!<br>
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>> >> --<br>
>> >> Matthew Miller<br>
>> >> <<a href="mailto:mattdm@fedoraproject.org">mattdm@fedoraproject.org</a>><br>
>> >> Fedora Project Leader<br>
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>> > I forgot about this! Closing the question removes it from visibility/searchability, right? If so, killing this feature makes sense to me.<br>
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>> > -- David<br>
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>> Closing the question adds a blockquote that says "This question was<br>
>> closed by 'person' because 'the question has been answered and the<br>
>> answer was accepted'". Users can continue to comment, suggest answers,<br>
>> edit, post comments as answers, contribute inaccurate answers, whatever,<br>
>> as long as they aren't deterred by the closed banner. Basically, I<br>
>> agree about it being a silly reason to close a question, except that it<br>
>> might do things that it isn't actually doing. So, +1 from me, let's turn<br>
>> it off.<br>
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>> Amusingly, the only way to access the list of close reasons is to have<br>
>> moderation turned on, and start choosing reasons to reject a post :)<br>
>> I'll remove this soon, unless someone gets to it or strenuously objects<br>
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>> --Pete<br>
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> I don't object. Is there a way to say "This problem was solved for me." by the original poster?<br>
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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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">--Pete</p>