close own threads?

frieza · 03-05-2009, 04:34 PM

i dunno if this has been suggested before, but perhaps it would be possible to give members the permission to close their own threads when it has been resolved?

XavierP · 03-05-2009, 05:44 PM

As this is a forum and another member is free to add their own issue if it is pertinent to the OP's issue (as in, I have the same problem, followed the steps and it's still not fixed) how do we define "resolved"? If you post a problem, solve it for you and close the thread, I would have to open my own thread with an identical start point and would have to suffer "why not search as this was answered yesterday" responses.

frieza · 03-05-2009, 06:31 PM

good point

Laserman · 03-05-2009, 07:52 PM

A really useful thing would be for those who open a thread on an issue to edit their original posts and change the title to:
<original title> [SOLVED]
That would make it easy for others searching the forum to identify useful threads.

Larry Webb · 03-06-2009, 06:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Laserman

A really useful thing would be for those who open a thread on an issue to edit their original posts and change the title to:
<original title> [SOLVED].

Then a person using Search would have no way of looking for thread on modems or anything besides else for a title.