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Claudio González
Claudio González
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October 11, 2012
Question

Surprisingly fast locking of single thread

  • October 11, 2012
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The question in this thread

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1080275?tstart=0

was correctly answered within two minutes by Bill, and his answer was marked as correct and the thread locked, probably shortly after Bill's posting.

What I find susprising is that the Reader forum has hundreds of similar questions and answers (see Pat's complain here http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1079699?tstart=0) , but only a handful of them are marked as Answered. And, without checking, I would say that (almost) none of these threads have been locked.

Bill, was that you?

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    Claudio González
    Claudio GonzálezAuthor
    Legend
    October 11, 2012

    I have just noticed that there are several similar threads in this forum that have also been locked but without been marked as Answered. Peculiar.

    John T Smith
    Community Expert
    John T SmithCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    October 11, 2012

    When I see a question in this forum that does not relate to the purpose of this forum, I post a short answer telling the person to find the correct forum... sometimes with a link to help them

    I'm not a Moderator so certainly can't lock anything... but I do support the Moderator(s) who DO lock inappropriate questions... once someone has been told they are in the wrong place, and especially if they are provided a link to help them find the correct place, there is no need for further discussion

    Claudio González
    Claudio GonzálezAuthor
    Legend
    October 11, 2012

    I also am in favour of locking threads that don't need any further discussion, but I am  surprised by the difference between what is happening here and what happens in the Reader forum. And I would say that this locking is a fairly recent feature, but may of course be totally wrong.

    Finally, it would certainly be more useful to know that a thread has been locked without having to open it. One way (to me) simple way of doing so would be by using the blobs preceding the name of each thread in the list. At present, we have black blobs for unanswered threads and green ones for answered ones. I would suggest something like this:

    • black: unanswered, unblocked
    • green: answered, unblocked
    • blue: answered, blocked
    • red: unanswered, blocked

    perhaps also automatically removing the last ones after some time.

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