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<blockquote data-quote="jdeg" data-source="post: 171145" data-attributes="member: 1">The one good thing about this is that if someone else has the same question, they find the answer by doing a search, nikonites comes up, then we get a new visitor who could potentially start to participate. It's even better if they see that there is a good community here and that person was helped. Would it help if we had a system to mark a thread as answered and have the OP choose the best answer? There are several modifications out there to do this. I believe they can send out notifications to tell the person to pick a best answer if they don't do it within an allotted time period. <a href="http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/vbecommerce.php?productid=184&amp;do=product" target="_blank">Here is one of them</a>However, we would run into an issue with the different types of threads that are created. Generally they fall into 3 categories:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Informational threads</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Questions</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Pictures</li>
</ul>They would have to be specifically marked as a question for a question/answer type system to work.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jdeg, post: 171145, member: 1"] The one good thing about this is that if someone else has the same question, they find the answer by doing a search, nikonites comes up, then we get a new visitor who could potentially start to participate. It's even better if they see that there is a good community here and that person was helped. [B]Would it help if we had a system to mark a thread as answered and have the OP choose the best answer?[/B] There are several modifications out there to do this. I believe they can send out notifications to tell the person to pick a best answer if they don't do it within an allotted time period. [URL="http://www.dragonbyte-tech.com/vbecommerce.php?productid=184&do=product"]Here is one of them[/URL] However, we would run into an issue with the different types of threads that are created. Generally they fall into 3 categories: [list] [*]Informational threads [*]Questions [*]Pictures [/list] They would have to be specifically marked as a question for a question/answer type system to work. [/QUOTE]

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