The old OSM Help software allowed the original poster of a question to âACCEPTâ an answer, whereas here on Discourse it seems that an original poster chooses to regard an answer as making the query âSOLVEDâ. When a thread is marked as solved, further posting is discouraged.
The use of âSOLVEDâ works fine for many types of problems: How do I get my osm2pgsql config to work? What tag should I use for X?" However, I think in other cases it rather misrepresents the actual discussion in a thread, unless the initial query has a quite clear answer (usually this means the query is closed rather than open). It is not unusual to have two or more good answers to a query and the old postiive/negative voting system supported this well.
I would prefer, if possible, that we revert to âACCEPTEDâ or, perhaps better allow both choices as this forum is likely to have a lot more questions along technical or purely practical lines.
I suspect that the juryâs still out on whether Discourse can in the long term replace the help site at all. Right now it doesnât have voting (apparently weâre waiting development of a plugin) and it doesnât have any meaningful form of comments. We canât even get the â+1â icon to display properly.
(see numerous other threads here here for discussion of the issues above)
We currently rely on the Discourse Solved plugin that in its current form doesnât allow that kind of modification. This might be a good thing to suggest to the plugin authors as a feature request: