Hello developers.
It’s really annoys when people make posts, and just mark themselve as solution, some people make posts, and do that to earn ‘solutions’ for reputation, who knows, whatever.
The thing is, it’s ANNOYING when people mark themselve as solution, and it’s not needed to do it so
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Roblox did not implement this feature themself. They used a Discourse plugin that can make replies as solutions. If you want to remove that feature, i’ll highly recommend talking to the author of that plugin.
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What if the person who created the post solved it though? Reputation isn’t a massive deal on these forums, and you can get it far simpler by just being a good person. I don’t see any of this as an issue.
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I partially disagree. I think a reply by the op should be able to be marked as a solution, but I don’t think it should show up in the list of threads they’ve solved or count towards their solutions total.
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Yes, it makes sense, but, you post on DevForum to get help, not to mark yourself as solution.
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If they think they need help, but figure it out on their own, the thread could be helpful to other users in the future. Marking how they figured it out as solution allows future browsers to figure it out if they have a similar issue.
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I’ve had a lot of problems that I’ve had to look up. All too often, only a couple of other people have had the same problem. Typically it either goes unsolved, or the person replies ‘I fixed it, never mind.’ What? What am I supposed to do now? If you see someone who says they fixed their problem, catch them and tell them to share their solution and mark it, it makes searching for help easier down the road.
I agree with Kiansjet’s line of thinking though - if solution count matters, then it shouldn’t count for your own solutions.
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I renamed the thread title to self-solutions, because that is a better way to describe this.
As stated above, it is possible for the OP to find the solution themselves. It happens a lot on the forum and on other forums like Stack Overflow. Even I have done this myself on the forum before.
https://devforum.roblox.com/t/does-microsoft-mr-work-on-roblox/74624
If something is misusing this, the DevRel/DevEng group should be messaged on the forum. Incorrectly marking solutions does make it harder to see solutions when searching for the same problem.
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They just wanna “rank up” i guess. Unless they have found the solution to the problem themself i see no benefit in doing that, but hey, there are a lot of different people here.
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As far as I know, solutions contribute nothing to your promotion for Regular. They’re just a count on your profile and nothing else.
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This is a question that should be asked on the Discourse Meta site, not here. The solution plugin is native to Discourse so their change to it would also be reflected here.
Solutions are nothing but a number. Try not to let this get to you. Self-solutions are often very helpful in cases where you actually solve your own problem - I’ve had to do this several times. If I don’t mark myself, other developers don’t know where to look if they have the same issue as me and want to see if I actually resolved the issue at hand or not. Removing them would be fairly counterproductive.
In the case of a self-solution that doesn’t actually solve the problem, there’s a better fit or the marked solution is inappropriate, you can message Community Sages to ask for a proper solution to be marked (must link the proper solution) or flag the thread for moderation to handle.
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I don’t see an issue with having self solutions. I created a topic a while back and needed help from others. Although those who replied did not directly solve my problem, their tips helped me figure out how to.
Solving your own problem is great, and I don’t see an issue with self-solutions. They’re just there to help people know that you achieved the goal you set when you post a topic.
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What you linked is a perfect example of a correct self-solution. You credited those who helped you. However, I think the primary issue here is the worry of users self-solving just to rack up their solution count, even though this doesn’t contribute to forum rank and afaik isn’t considered a measure of clout on the devforum.
Well. People just enjoy seeing big numbers on their profile.
I see nothing wrong with it if it doesn’t affect the site.
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I think you should be able to mark yourself as a solution, as in many cases, people on the forum give an answer, it’s not quite correct, but then the author fixes it and says what he did, marking it as the solution because it is.
In my opinion it doesn’t matter to me, mostly because it shows that you solved your own issue. However I do see how people can abuse this feature.
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I wouldn’t go for it. What if the user figured the thing out themselves and wanted the solution up so other developers with the same problem can see the thread and figure it out. It just helps more people out in the end to keep self solutions.
I know this post was made because of people solving their own post to rank up, but who cares all that much?
Bad idea – the forum is a public resource, having users delete their topics after finding a solution goes against that goal.
That is what the solution button is for
Self-solutions aren’t really a problem. I’ve needed them too for some posts in #forum-feedback where I request a change, it gets implemented, but the people behind it don’t reply, so once I notice it myslef i reply to it, and mark as solution since it’s solved. I think you can report someone if they do it maliciously, since it goes against global rule 8.3
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When I mean “solved” it would be like a button specific to the post itself. I forgot to say that
Maybe it would be locked, after a certain amount of time? Maybe… I don’t know. thats for roblox to decide i guess
Why would there be 2 buttons that do the same exact thing, just let users self-solution. And why would it be locked? Locking prevents editing.
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