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Good question and point. However, this is well beyond my coding capabilities. It would require being able to flag certain threads as not seeking answers such that the the search would skip them. It would also require having permissions set on who can flag such a thread and some other pieces too.Can we make so solution posts from other forums don't show up in the unanswered thread section?
I would like to look through there without having to weed through solved unanswered threads.
I will begin doing this with the Yahoo! questions I bring here. I hadn't considered that these would clutter the unanswered threads search....Maybe when someone copies a problem from another site, that person can get in the habit of making 2 posts - the first one contains the question and the second contains the solution. That is what I do for Facebook posts and it seems to work just fine.
Great point, ILikeSerena. Cross posting as a means of "testing the waters" of various help sites is reasonable and not something we should criticize if done within reason. Every once in a while there comes a member who does this for every question and at a certain point it becomes an issue, but this is a rare situation.Different forums have different members, cultures, and ways of doing things.
I believe people should have an option of trying them all out, seeing which forum fits them best.
The best we can do, is help them as best we can.
If they are happy, perhaps even after an answer on another forum, they'll come back.
Otherwise, we'll probably won't see them again anyways.
Ah well, some people are just hunting for answers to questions without making any effort.Great point, ILikeSerena. Cross posting as a means of "testing the waters" of various help sites is reasonable and not something we should criticize if done within reason. Every once in a while there comes a member who does this for every question and at a certain point it becomes an issue, but this is a rare situation.