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| #title How to mark your thread as SOLVED | |
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| Some helpful person on the Ubuntu forums has just solved that issue that has been causing you to tear your hair out. You want to proclaim to the world that everything is now peachy, but you're not sure how and you don't want to embarrass yourself on the forums by declaring your undying love for the aforementioned resolver. Well there is a simple way. Find your thread, and at the bottom of the page, click the ""Edit Tags"" link on the right side. | Some helpful person on the Ubuntu forums has just solved that issue that has been causing you to tear your hair out. You want to proclaim to the world that everything is now peachy, but you're not sure how and you don't want to embarrass yourself on the forums by declaring your undying love for the aforementioned resolver. Well there is a simple way - ---- |
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| {{attachment:edittags.png}} | Scroll to the top of your thread and look for the '''''Thread Tools''''' menu item on the right of the toolbar: |
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| A small text box will appear, and you will be able to add tags to your thread. We're going to add a "solved" tag to let people know that our issue is resolved. This will make the topic have a small blue "solved" tag on the thread listings. | {{attachment:threadtools.png}} |
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| {{attachment:solved_tags.png}} | Click on this menu item to produce a dropdown menu: |
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| Now this has a twofold use; | {{attachment:marksassolved2.png}} |
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| 1. It lets the person who answered your thread know that everything is working | Then click "'''Mark this thread as solved'''". This will mark your thread as solved. |
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| 2. It lets other people searching the forums know that this thread provides a working solution (at least to the original poster) for their problem | == Benefits of marking a thread as [SOLVED] == 1. It lets the person who answered your thread know that ''__everything is working__''; 1. It lets other people searching the forums know that this ''__thread provides a working solution__'' (at least to the original poster) for their problem; 1. It ''__saves people__'' who try to help others in the Ubuntu Forums ''__from wasting their time__'' looking at threads that are already solved. This means that they can spend more time working on unsolved threads ''__which helps everyone__'' in the forums. ---- |
How to mark your thread as SOLVED
Some helpful person on the Ubuntu forums has just solved that issue that has been causing you to tear your hair out. You want to proclaim to the world that everything is now peachy, but you're not sure how and you don't want to embarrass yourself on the forums by declaring your undying love for the aforementioned resolver. Well there is a simple way -
Scroll to the top of your thread and look for the Thread Tools menu item on the right of the toolbar:
Click on this menu item to produce a dropdown menu:
Then click "Mark this thread as solved". This will mark your thread as solved.
Benefits of marking a thread as [SOLVED]
It lets the person who answered your thread know that everything is working;
It lets other people searching the forums know that this thread provides a working solution (at least to the original poster) for their problem;
It saves people who try to help others in the Ubuntu Forums from wasting their time looking at threads that are already solved. This means that they can spend more time working on unsolved threads which helps everyone in the forums.
UnansweredPostsTeam/SolvedThreads (last edited 2015-06-01 05:07:35 by 124-66-20-103)