Moderate your own threads?

I would like to comment on Harishankar's suggestion on closing a thread.

We all know mods are under pressure and I do not intend to be a mod, well not yet, but the idea may save the mods some work.

eg 1 POSTER posts a question and gets correct reply......allow the poster to put SOLVED at the beginning of SUBJECT saving the mod closing the thread.???

this is not meant to be a negative comment, but I sometimes feel mods could do with some help on this eh?

eg 2 POSTER posts a question and gets a correct reply but does not respond within a certain period of time ........................LETS call it 2 weeks

then Harishankar's suggestion for the person who gave the reply and has sufficient post counts decided by Jeremy can edit the posters subject and puts APPEARS RESOLVED and if the poster returns and is offended the subject is amended STILL with no work by mods.

(2) sometimes the colours mean nothing to me, I have to scroll down and look and there is none on this page as I type away so I like text not icon colours to signify closed threads

3) and of course the mods can overwrite my puny efforts or others if they feel it is inappropiate and you guessed it, puts SOLVED or APPEARS RESOLVED in the subject header.

As a matter of fact a lot of boards I have seen implement this functionality -> of allowing the topic starter to change the title of his thread. It is a default feature on phpBB software, but I don't know about vBulletin all that much.

Something like clicking a button should put [SOLVED] in front of the title so that people need not waste time going through a thread to find out if the problem is solved or not...

some kind of "solution bin" would be good for the angle that you could filter them out, which would be better than just the "threads with 0 replies" solution at the moment, which still leaves a lot of threads/questions unanswered, and gets clogged with off topic stuff.