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I hate the new “Did this topic solve your issue?” feature

I spend a lot of time in these forums trying to help other people solve their problems rather than looking for solutions. The new “feature” makes my job harder by adding unnecessary clutter to every post I read, even to those from myself. It makes looking at the profile info at the bottom of the posts (which I must do every time before replying) particularly painful.

Is there a way to disable that “feature” or, at the very least, make it less prominent? If not, could someone please consider this post as a feature request? It’s driving me insane.

TIA.

PS: Before someone replies saying that it’s no big deal, please note that I’m talking about reading (and writing) a lot of posts which don’t solve my issue each and every day.

iMac G5 17" (iSight), Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Posted on Nov 6, 2006 9:29 PM

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andyBall_uk

Level 7

20,516 points

Posted on Nov 6, 2006 9:48 PM

I agree with you David - most annoying.

It seems unfortunate that while so many niggles remain, like regular major slow-downs, a not really finished Search function etc. - we should be saddled with something like this too.

& it's sure to increase any newcomers confusion regarding Solved,Helpfuls & points.

So Please apple - take it away - make it tinier, let us opt in/out of it being there.

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Eme

Level 5

5,636 points

Nov 28, 2006 9:18 PM in response to The Mimico Kid

Hi The Mimico Kid,

Hmm sounds oddly similar, eh?

Eme'~[ )

Nov 29, 2006 2:07 PM in response to Eme

Hi, Eme.

Thanks for the honourary green star!

Hmm sounds oddly similar, eh?

I thought so too.

Dec 4, 2006 2:06 PM in response to K.S.

It can be disabled, at least for now, in a custom
style sheet. But I doubt if the details would be
appreciated here.

Doesn't this response actually answer the question? Shouldn't it be marked as the answer? Custom style sheets are a common way to customize the display of webpages to better suite ones personal navigation and GUI preferences. This solution worked well for me.

800 MHz PowerBook G4, Blueberry iMac, 1.6 GHz G5 Mac OS X (10.4.2)

Dec 4, 2006 2:31 PM in response to Chris Miner

Doesn't this response actually answer the question?
Shouldn't it be marked as the answer?

I intended to mark it as Helpful, but I’m not sure it would be appropriate to consider this problem as Solved. The “feature” shouldn’t be there in the first place, at least not the way it is now, and I don’t want to give the impression that the current situation is acceptable just because there are some workarounds...

Maxplanar

Level 4

3,095 points

Dec 4, 2006 6:21 PM in response to The Mimico Kid

I'm completely confused by this new feature too. When do I use it? What's it for? Why is it there? I already hate the points business, but this seems ridiculous.

Dec 5, 2006 1:20 PM in response to Maxplanar

I'm completely confused by this new feature too. When do I use it? What's it for? Why is it there?

Welcome to the club, Maxplanar! ; - )

None of us know and the Discussions Hosts don't seem to be in a particular hurry to tell us.

We'll just have to wait and (hopefully) see ...

Dec 6, 2006 7:18 PM in response to David Gimeno Gost

OK
This is my first post and is a test.
Sorry if I'm on the wrong place, but I don't find a sandbox.

Well. Good Night.

About the topic I haven't any idea. Bye.

Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Apr 17, 2007 12:36 PM in response to David Gimeno Gost

Well, the “feature” appears to be gone, at least for now (and hopefully forever the way it was).

I wish I could have marked more than two posts as Helpful here.

Thanks to everyone and best wishes.

I *hate* the new “Did this topic solve your issue?” feature