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

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.

I wonder what would happen if every reader were to click on the 'yes' button in the post by David Gimeno Gost, or by Andy Ball, or by Adrian Totes...

well, it seems that the silly yes/no boxes for each post appear again when I next open the thread from an email notice. So it wouldn't seem to be a very usefully accurate method of collecting data at present.

You can count me in, this is distracting at best, and at worst gathering info on each of us, our daily maps of where each of us tend to hangout etc etc etc, sorry if I'm a bit paranoid, elections today in the US...

I blame this new feature on the current points system, I am a firm believer the 'Points' should be reset on an annual basis, you keep your level but earn your points and standings yearly... more fair in my honest opnion and besides that, I abhor "living off the past", doesn't everybody...

I understand the why of the new feature, but it is distracting... your friend in PA, Rick

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Sometimes David can appear to be a bit abrupt with our dear readers, but in this instance I think he is being too gentle.

Me? I REALLY REALLY hate it.

AK

You can add my "id" to the list here!

What's just as bothersome to me is the Announcement itself. I read the announcement 5 times and still am lacking a full understanding of the purpose or usage of this new feature!

I can't imagine a new users confusion as to the purpose/usage of the feature.

I hope this is (the feature and announcement), at the very least, improved as a feature if it is kept.

littleshoulders [:-)

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

this is distracting at best, and at worst gathering info on each of us, our daily maps of where each of us tend to hangout etc

The ability to track which forums we've visited and which topics in those forums we've read is nothing new. That's always been possible here, and is evidenced on the front end by the blue dots in the present forums software and the stick-pin icons in the WebX software that was used previously.

In the end I couldn't put into words the vitriol I feel towards this idiotic 'feature', so instead I'll contend myself with adding my voice to this thread. How long are we going to have to endure the constant and never-ending subconscious reading of "Did this topic..." as the eye moves from post to post?

Fwiwadd me in, I hate this "feature".

Are post replies "topics"?
Is this redundancy necessary?
Given some of the facts, how is it determinative?
<sigh>

Add me to the "hate it" list. Not only is it annoying, it makes no sense: how can a topic solve an issue? An answer could, but in that case, it should ask that question, which at least would justify its inclusion in every post. As it is, it apparently has nothing to do with individual posts & frequently won't with individual issues, given how many topics develop sub-threads that explore multiple (& often only loosely related) issues.

What it seems to be in reality is a mechanism to call Apple's attention to the value of a topic. If that is so, it is asking the wrong question, & the confusion that is certain to cause will render the answers all but useless.

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Great! I just noticed that the feature appears even in the 'your message has been posted ... short delay' notice and worse, the rollover message for both the "yes" & "no" buttons is the same.

Dumb, dumb, dumb!

At least you can make it go away by clicking on one of the choices.
You won't have to look at it anymore, in that thread anyway.

Joe

I'll join the negatives club on this one. It seems really, really poorly thought out and implemented even worse, seems to add nothing at all, and will on clutter things up and further bog down an already painfully slow system.