Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-1251315-20150423195945/@comment-1738746-20150427081432

The Rim of the Sky wrote: SuperSajuuk wrote:

The Rim of the Sky wrote: The marked as answered system would only apply to questions. If someone gives a helpful answer, the thread creator can asks mod to lock it. And tell me how you are going to create such a system using nothing but JS/jQuery? At most, you'd have to create a hidden input but you would need to find some way of creating a "question" thread or having some way of identifying a discussion being a question. You'd have a better time with that if you had the ability to manipulate the database, which we don't have. Only JS would work, plus you'd need Wikia's approval for that.

I don't see the value in that system, nor is this thread about such a thing: if you wish to implement a "marked as answered" feature, please make your own CT, as this is about dealing with bumping old threads. This is relevant. The fact that you're saying my topic is completely hypocritical compared to when you brought up the topic of removing the voting system in my staff nomination-application CT. This is relevant because it can be used as a substitute to auto-locking threads.

Topics are only ever bumped because somebody wants to add on to the discussion. If they can't, they would just make a new topic. I wasn't planning to have the marked as answered system implemented via coding, it would be more-so requested by users to moderators. If we are to implement it in the code, we could have people select their forum topic as being a question rather than a discussion. When somebody answers their question, they can select their answer as correct and have the thread locked. An example can be found here where users' topics are marked as questions in the subforum only, and they can select a reply as the best answer. There's no sub-forum (sub-board?) in the example you gave Rim. If you mean sub-forum by using the sorting thing to show unanswered questions only, this process is done via Thread Labelling. That sorting function merely shows you which threads aren't labelled (unanswered questions) and which ones are (answered questions). I'm not sure how that can be implemented on the wiki as I'm not familiar with wiki code, but in terms of forum code it's not a walk in the park. If coded onto the wiki, we'd probably need to take a version down from that where it shows a simple graphic with the use of a tick box (makes "Answered" appear in the title) rather than the system that's on that forum.