July 30, 2008 at 1:52 am
Topic creator knows well about his topic.If he gets desired result through forum, can close his topic. So that other people can know about the status of that topic.
July 30, 2008 at 9:50 pm
I don't see an option to allow this, but I'll ping the InstantForum team.
July 30, 2008 at 10:32 pm
I mean to say that you should give permission to topic creator to close his/her topic.
July 31, 2008 at 8:50 am
It's not in the permission list. Appears only moderators and admins can do this.
July 31, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Then how admin will come to know about completion of the topic??
August 4, 2008 at 10:42 am
This would be a nice option - to be able to mark your question as "answered" by closing the thread. I'm not the best at answering, but do like to help where I can and have found it difficult to find posts that are still looking for a resolution. The "Active Threads" is one place I've gone too, looking for posts with zero or a small number of replies. I've also tried the advanced search, limiting the posts based on date and number of replies, but if I don't put anything into the keywords box, it doesn't seem to want to do the search (too many results?). Neither is perfect but work ok.
I know we would end up with a lot of questions that had been answered but never marked closed and there is a lot of administrative overhead in going into threads and forcing them closed if the poster doesn't do it themselves. Maybe even without the overhead (not forcing them closed) having some closed is better than none closed? I dunno....
Either way, I'll still enjoy the forum.
Thanks,
Chad
August 4, 2008 at 10:24 pm
The administrators don't worry about closing topics. Sometimes there's a solution, sometimes not, sometimes there's a solution, but a few days later someone realizes they need more help.
From my experience here, very, very few people would mark things as closed. If it's not that many people, then I'm not sure there's value in this.
August 5, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Do you have any suggestions on how to search for posts with few replies without providing any keywords? That doesn't give a definitive list of open questions, but if something has zero replies, it is a likely candidate...
Thanks,
Chad
August 6, 2008 at 12:23 pm
Quite a few of the heavy posters use the "Active Threads" link to check for changes since their last login and the post count is shown. That's how I scan for items needing attention.
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