[RESOLVED] "Problem solved" icon?

I appreciate the suggestion given by l00p1n6. :thumb:

Regards.

Well, one more thing that is related to vBulletin is, my recommendation, to add time of the person who has posted a post.

What I mean is, for instance I post at 9:40pm which is seen to other user as posted on 04:10am in some other part of the country. So, a time explanation could be:Today, 07:41 PM (Yesterday, 10:31am)So that veiwer reads first time as per his/her location and sees time in bracket as per poster's location.

another good thing would be "urgency" or something like that

to explain on an example

//a user has a problem (needs to load something from a file)
while (!problem_is_solved)
{
if (another_user_has_this_problem && he_clicks_adToUrgencyLevel())
urcency_level++;
if(urgency_level<5)
mark_thread(green);
else if(urgency_level<20)
mark_thread(yellow);
else
mark_thread(red);
}

i hope you got the point:)

as for the "time" issue, i agree with Brad Jones

I agree with all that Andreas said.

What I mean is, for instance I post at 9:40pm which is seen to other user as posted on 04:10am in some other part of the country. So, a time explanation could be:

Today, 07:41 PM (Yesterday, 10:31am)

So that veiwer reads first time as per his/her location and sees time in bracket as per poster's location.

No, no, this is not good. The way time stamps are displayed now is very good. It doesn't matter what our it was in India when you post that message, it counts only what our was in Romania at that time (just an example, of course :D). Each use has his own time, and that is all that counts. If I want to know what hour was in India when you post your message, I look in Windows for GMTs and make the difference.

what i meant is when 20 or more people are having the same problem, that then there is something wrong
With what? Or actually with whom?

I disagree with this proposal of urgency levels.

Well if someone wants to tell that the problem is solved, simply alter the title of the thread and write "(solved)" at the very front, I've done it before.

Well, would be a good solution for Brad: hire Commander Data to read dev-archive thrads every minute and refresh the status to unsolved/solved/unknown and the level to no_matter/hmmmm/urgent/please_gurus_heeeeeeeeeeeelp.

Urgency level is a bad idea for all the reasons mentionned in this thread. If it's urgent, then you are at the wrong place on a message board. A "solved" icon is good, in fact, this would be pretty interesting to have that someway unique feature on dev-archive.

JeffB

hm, i give up with the urgency request, but i'll just clarify what i had in mind because i dont want people to think that it was SUCH a bad idea:
example
i ask:
"how to declare an integer?"
then Someone_1 comes and he is also interested to know the answer to that question. he adds a "+" to the thread
then Someone_2 reads the thread and he/she also wants to know the answer to that qoestion, he adds a "+" to the thread
and so on

when some user sees the thread he'll see that, for example, 111 users don't know the answer to that question and that must be something IMPORTANT, then when the answer is found it could be places in FAQ section

like i said i GIVE UP WITH "URGENCY" REQUEST

but i'll stay at proposal for "problem solved icon"
why?
if i have the same "integer" problem ("how to declare an integer?") i use search and type "integer"
i get 1000 of threads with similar questions and i have to read all of them to find an answer
some might be "dead ends" and some might misslead me to the wrong track
but if i find the thread with "how to declare an integer?" and icon problem solved that could almoust certanly be the solution to my problem in no time.

as for the questions inside that thread, IMHO they should be posted as a new seperate thread if they are not related to thread question
for example:
if i have the same "integer" problem and some good willing people give me the answer, and then i ask inside same thread "how to declare a char?" (wich may be threated as very similar question); the person searching for answer to the "how to declare a char?" question will be given a title to the thread "how to declare an integer?" and will most probably skip that thread even thgough it may contain an answer

i had to do some clarifications, because some people missunderstood me and someone missunderstood them and so on (like a broken telephone)

please do NOT look at "request" as "something someone must do or i'll jump off the bridge":)
please do NOT take previous sentence as "i'll jump of the bridge":)

regards
looping

you are right, this idea is not so good after all
txh

i'll mark this thread with "problem solved" icon:)

As far as the urgency request... I thought that was already indicated by posting in several different forums. :rolleyes:

Arjay

I added a link in the "Thread Tools" menu (you see this menu item when viewing a thread). This option is "Mark Thread Resolved". This will put the word "[RESOLVED] in the subject line of a thread. It only works though, for the person that started the thread.
That's why I see an empty square where the resolved icons should be?

PS: I've selected it, I'm curious what happens...

PPS: spooky... now I can see it... these caches again... ;)

Why don't you make an icon with a "YES" to say "approve" or "resolved" ?