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Level 3

957 points

Letting users find the answers

I was just sent an email that was stating that I was asking for points by suggesting that someone that I had helped out to mark the question as answered.

I am not looking for points to boost up my level.

I am here to find answers for issues that I have as well as help others to get answers that they are looking for. If someone comes to the board to get help with something, they will most likely enter their problem in the search box and see if anyone else has had the same issue. When I do that, I look for the questions that were marked as answered in the hope that the way to fix my problem will be found in that post.

Is there some way to recommend to all users that once their question has been answered or once they have gotten some good suggestions that they mark the post that gave them the information? There are a lot of people that don't know how to do that or don't even know it is an option. By marking the helpful answered posts, users can find the answers to their questions without wading through 20-30 posts that don't have an answer in them.

I am just not sure how else to improve the search for answers without asking or suggesting to a user that once they have gotten an answer for their problem that they mark the post that gave it to them.

Posted on Jun 15, 2011 2:48 PM

24 replies

babowa

Level 9

78,103 points

Jun 17, 2011 1:59 PM in response to Ralph-Johns-UK

😮 Arrrgghhh........😀

baltwo

Level 9

62,362 points

Jun 22, 2011 4:19 PM in response to babowa

What? You're not a fan of message texting in readable forums? Who'd a thunk such a thing. The kids won't understand you if you write everything out for them. u no?

rccharles

Level 6

12,957 points

Jun 22, 2011 6:03 PM in response to babowa

It's called language change. I guess the some of the middle ages folks got bent when the masculine & feminine forms of "the" was dropped from English. Gramatical gender is in most of the rest of the Indo-European languages. How will us English folks remember the gender of out forks?

Robert

babowa

Level 9

78,103 points

Jun 22, 2011 6:03 PM in response to baltwo

The kids won't understand you if you write everything out for them. u no?

Here's a revolutionary idea: shouldn't be allowed to butcher a language unless you have full command of it! Like, you know, that would probably, like, eliminate 80% of all texting, you know.....

Airballl

Level 1

0 points

May 25, 2012 7:03 AM in response to D0GG

Yea this is pretty irritating. Marking the best posts and responses is a great way to find more relevant information faster.

May 25, 2012 3:49 AM in response to babowa

K 😝👿

Barry

May 25, 2012 11:47 AM in response to Airballl

Umm,

Odd thread - in that it is still "open" and not archived a year after the event.

Barry Hemphill has also found he can reply to someone at an earlier spot in the thread.

I am surprised that I was still subscribed to this thread.

I see the Hosts edited your Sig that was a Link to a another site which suggested money could be involved.

This is against the Terms of Use and is why it was edited.

(The Subscription email contained the full Sig so anybody subscribed to this thread would have seen it.)

7:47 PM Friday; May 25, 2012

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May 25, 2012 1:56 PM in response to Barry Hemphill

Some people (usually young ones) actually say "K" instead of "Okay" when they're speaking.

May 25, 2012 2:03 PM in response to Ronda Wilson

11 months and people are still responding to the inadvertent threadjack 😝

Subscription alert email or just spottted it at the top again ?

10:02 PM Friday; May 25, 2012

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Letting users find the answers