can we kill the "closed: question is answered" feature on ask fedora?

[David Gay]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Matthew Miller" <mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
> To: "Fedora Infrastructure" <infrastructure at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2015 9:04:37 AM
> Subject: Re: can we kill the "closed: question is answered" feature on ask	fedora?
> 
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 09:27:46AM -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> > I don't object. Is there a way to say "This problem was solved for me." by
> > the original poster?
> 
> Absolutely -- they can put a checkmark by an answer, which
> 
> a) marks that answer as such,
> b) gives extra karma to the person who provided that answer, and
> c) marks the whole question as "answered" (which is different from
>    just "has answers")
> 
> 
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> Matthew Miller
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I never understood why the "close answered questions" practice was adopted. I assume there was a good reason, but I've never heard of a Q/A site doing that (ex. Stack Exchange).

-- David