People marking the wrong post as an answer

[Yair]

I noticed that recently LAVA added a feature where people can mark posts as solutions, but I also noticed that too often posts which are clearly not the solution are marked as the solution and while I don't really care about the actual result, that just bothered my inner UX designer enough to go and look at one of my own threads to see why this happens.

 

It turns out that on your threads every reply now has a button with a check box icon that says "Mark Solved". I think the problem is that people don't realize that the button refers to a specific reply and simply click it to say "sure, it's solved". This could probably be made better by changing the text to "mark as solution" or "mark this as the solution".

 

Michael, is this a change you can make on your own or is it something built into the IPB code? I see that the text is plain HTML.

[Michael Aivaliotis]

What do you want the text to say?

[Yair]

I think that "mark reply as solution" or "mark this as the solution" are reasonable (the second is clearer but longer).

[Yair]

Well, while we can't do this in this forum, I see that it has now been changed elsewhere to "Mark This Post as the Solution", which seems clear enough.