Pushing the users to more easily add SOLVED to subject

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Calimero
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Pushing the users to more easily add SOLVED to subject

Post by Calimero »

May I propose to add a new button besides the existing (Post)REPLY that will add [SOLVED] in the subject line of the post.

It's much easier, and faster, ... and requires a bit of coding, but it will lead to much better marking of the posts.
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Post by JayBird »

we did have that mod, i think Jam created it. but we haven't reimplememnted it, and not sure if we are going to :?
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ok,

just thought of as an idea.
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Post by theda »

I usually put it at the end of the title, because I'm too lazy to move the mouse three inches over <_< lol.
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Post by onion2k »

I actually don't like the idea of adding "solved" to a title. Topics should be left until everyone who has something to contribute to the discussion has had their say. There's been plenty of times where a solution to a problem has been posted, and then others have come in and improved on it, offered opinions on it, offered alternatives. That's the beauty of a forum discussion, it's only over when it's over. Adding "solved" to titles makes people less likely to read the thread, and less likely to come up with those little extras.
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Post by wwwapu »

If there were button for [SOLVED] there should also be a link in portal for 'Solved questions' just like there is for 'Unanswered quostions' (it's so hard to use search :roll: ). This could help someone in a hurry to quickly find a solution for the problem at hand, because he/she would know that there is at least some working solution at the post.
And if [SOLVED] post was reopened by posting reply it might be neat if [SOLVED] tag was removed automatically.
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Post by Ambush Commander »

That would require either:

1. A new column in the post database or,
2. A very intensive regexp database query.
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Post by programmermatt »

Ambush Commander wrote:That would require either:

1. A new column in the post database or,
2. A very intensive regexp database query.
Not if the [SOLVED] was placed in a definate spot, like in the beginning in or at the end, then the query would be changed to include:

... topic_title like '[SOLVED]%'

I haven't used like in awhile so sorry if this is incorrect, but I know that something like this could be done
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Post by Ambush Commander »

AH, excuse my ignorance in MYSQL queries.
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