Allow users to lock their own solved posts

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If someone posts about an issue and it gets resolved and a comment gets marked as a solution, what’s the point of keeping the post still open for discussion? If a post is clearly marked as “solved”, here’s what you would receive as comments:

  • Comments saying the same solution to the comment marked as a solution
  • Arguments about other comments
  • Comments that are not a solution

So, is there any point to letting other users comment on an already solved thread? If for example Roblox staff adds an feature or resolves a bug, then what’s the point on commenting on it more?

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The ability to lock discussions is not given to users of the forum, because there is usually no reason to lock topics. Staff and Community Sages are able to lock threads that get out of hand, but in all other cases the ability to respond should be kept intact.

The reason is that the topic starter may not always mark the solution that is the most accurate, or additional information that is still relevant to the discussion/question may be posted by another developer after the topic has already been marked as ‘Solved’. In both of these cases, responding to the topic is perfectly valid.

The alternative situation is that, once a topic focussed around one question/topic is locked, someone who wants to add additional information or ask an additional question is forced to create a brand new thread. This is wasteful and makes it more difficult to find and reference information on the forum.

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The solution-lock is a semi-lock, meaning PA, Community Sages and Roblox Staff might still post.

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  • Accidental selection of a solution.
  • Solution that works on the surface but after testing for a while doesn’t actually solves the problem.
  • Other users asking for more details about the solution if they don’t understand part of it.
  • “Better” solution available.
  • Updated solution available when a new update comes out.

Plus I haven’t seen many posts where this has actually been a problem, except for on some high profile bug reports which were later locked.

You can flag any replies that don’t contribute to the discussion or are argumentative for the sake of being argumentative.

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All, except No. 3, can be resolved by unmarking comments as solutions. You however got a good point on No. 3.

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Unmarking solutions requires the original poster to know about it. Threads are not just for the original poster, they are for everyone, so if a new solution or better solution comes around, anyone should be able to contribute that to the discussion, not just the original poster.

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That doesn’t make any sense. Like I outlined in the previous reply, the topic starter marking a topic a Resolved does not mean that the discussion should stop. The solution-marked post might not be the full / most comprehensive answer posted in the thread, or the solution-lock can be abused by the topic starter which will affect all developers who would like to post on the topic.

If posts go off-topic or don’t add to the discussion, you can flag them. They will most likely be deleted as a result, and if a thread goes off-topic it will likely get locked anyhow.

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You got a point and I agree with you. How can I delete this post?

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You are not able to delete this post/topic, nor can you lock it. For the very reason that is the same reason as to why the forum does not allow members to lock posts by marking it as a solution; the developer forum is a public source of information and discussion is kept open in case developers are looking for a similar question.

If someone else wants to suggest this idea of ‘Solution-locking’ now, they will use the search feature before creating a new topic and find this thread. That way, they can read through past replies and extract information from them, without needing to create a duplicate thread.

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