On Wed, 19 Oct 2016 08:19:43 -0400 Matthew Miller mattdm@fedoraproject.org wrote:
I've posted about this before but I just saw it again today and it makes me sad. For whatever strange reason, Askbot comes with a "Closed for the following reason the question is answered, right answer was accepted" option. This is *completely* antithetical to the idea of building a high-value store of useful information.
I guess it might make sense for a helpdesk-style system where we expect each issue to be a one-off, but that's not generally the case here.
At the same time, I don't blame users/moderators for hitting this button, because its very presence suggests that it's the right thing to do. Can we:
a. reopen all questions closed this way
and
b. remove the option and make sure it doesn't come back?
We can try, but as smooge noted we don't really have anyone working on the askbot code base / database and not sure when someone might have cycles to look into it.
I don't see any existing option for this, but there is a related perhaps "What should "unanswered question" mean?" and it's set to "Question has no answers" with the other option being "Question has no accepted answers"
We may be able to ask upstream for options around this... we can't be the only ones who want this.
kevin