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Another mistery

Forum|Forum|13 years ago
August 14, 2012
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As I understand things, the green blob in this screenshot of the main page of the forum in Spanish

indicates that the question in this 2009 thread has been answered. There are however a few curious things:

1. No message in the thread is marked as the correct answer.

2. The author of the question was last logged in these forums in December 2009, when there was no button for marking an answer as correct.

3. The thread was revived in June 2011 by someone with the same problem, but there were no further posts until today.

4. Today's only post is the first post by someone who appears just as "member".

5. To the best of my knowledge, there has never been a moderator in the forum in Spanish.

6. As far as I can tell, this is the first case in that forum of a thread marked as answered by someone different from the originator of the thread.

So my question is: where did this green blob come from?

Incidentally, I don't know if today's post is a correct answer to the question. First because I don't have Illustrator and therefore cannot test it, and second because the method is written in a manner that makes it very difficult to follow and understand it.

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Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

I understood post #9 by Pierre in the same way as did Claudio, although I should prefer to hope that Bill had it right, and that it will remain that way.

However, in any case, the plot thickens even more either way.

Unless, of course, the Correct Answer marking of the old mistery thread (partially shown in this mistery thread) actually happened back then but had been caught in one of the rifts in the time space continuum. Others have been reported in this forum.

PECourtejoie

Community Expert

Sorry if I wasn't clear. I just stated that before the skin updates, there was a way for moderators to mark a thread as "answered", without the need to mark a particular post as the correct answer. (We can still do the latter)

Useful when there are more than one correct answers, or to avoid giving points to Bill, as we don't know what would happen to the world as we know it if his point count goes too high!

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

Thank you for the clarification, Pierre, although I found your original statement clear already, expressing what Claudio and I thought, unfortunately.

But as I said, the plot thickens: the thread in question has been marked Answered without any Correct Answer, quite recently, after the skin updates.

the_wine_snob

Inspiring

Claudio,

Your understanding of the green icon is the same, as mine.

I wonder if there is perhaps a time limit, where an "auto assumption" might kick in, and mark an older thread Answered?

Also, a MOD could have marked that, but I would hope that they would do so, ONLY after reading, and determining that there IS a Correct Answer in the Replies.

Hunt

TerriStone

Adobe Employee

I don't think there is anything resembling an auto assumption.

Bill Hunt wrote:
I wonder if there is perhaps a time limit, where an "auto assumption" might kick in, and mark an older thread Answered?

Claudio GonzálezAuthor

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TerriStoneCHL wrote:
I don't think there is anything resembling an auto assumption.
Bill Hunt wrote:
I wonder if there is perhaps a time limit, where an "auto assumption" might kick in, and mark an older thread Answered?

And if there was, the forum in Spanish would have hundreds of threads with green blobs.

Also, I would be surprised if a Spanish speaking moderator (is there any?) decided today and for the first time to visit that one thread and mark it as answered.

Thanks for trying, though, Bill.

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