hey, I have seen multiple posts like this, where giving a solution to themselves was absolutely not necessary. some people have been making topics, and when someone does solve the problem, they reply “thanks!” and proceed to mark their response as a solution. It would be better if users could not give solutions to themselves as it just defeats the purpose of solutions.
Does this post also need to belong elsewhere? like meta.discourse.org? if so, please reply.
Solutions are Discourse’s feature, so yes it goes in Discourse.
I’m quite annoyed when users do that. Some of them may be new and don’t exactly know how this all works, but some clearly know and do it anyways.
However, sometimes I can understand their decision. What if two users helped the equal amount? It wouldn’t be fair to give one of them the solution even though the other helped, so the user doesn’t give it to any of them at all, just to themselves. Sure they get one more solution on their stat, but most of the time, they mention the helpers.
So, I’m 50/50 with this. Someone must’ve brought this up before and it probably got rejected as there can be problems like which post to mark as solution.
There are use cases for giving yourself solutions, e.g you solved it yourself without help from others. Just yesterday I was helping a user and another user came in shortly. The OP didn’t mark one of us as the solution but just marked his own post as the solution.
Though I can care less cus I don’t do it for the solution
I was thinking about this when writing the topic, but discourse could add another button saying solved instead of a solution, because the solution can be misused in some situations.
Actually. It’s okay you know? Maybe it’s just for like me, i gave a solution to myself because i wanted to move something into another topic.
Like I said, and CarbyneUniverse did too, its a 50/50 situation as sometimes, people figure out the solution themselves, but if another person had contributed, it only makes sense the solution should go to them.
The point of the solution button is to mark the post that solved your problem. If you are going to mark your “Thanks! @user1, @user2, @user3” reply as the solution then that ruins the point of the button. Did that post in particular solve your problem?
Well, sometimes the topic’s creator can solve his/her question himself/herself. So, I don’t think topic’s creator should lose their ability to mark their post as a solution. Although, it’s a bad thing when somebody solves question but don’t mark his/her post as a solution.
yes, please read the past replies, I and some others have stated that they can solve it themselves. 
Oh, sorry than. I’ll take care of this from now own.
I don’t think it’s discourse’s feature, It’s a plugin made by someone who works at discourse, roblox just thought it would be a nice idea to install it.
But I don’t think there’s an option within the plugin setup thing that can stop this, there may be a way through coding it in the directory that it’s stored in.
This is something meta would most likely not address and leave it to our own forum’s discretion given how specific the case is. Your request cannot be fixed with plugins. It’s simply how people choose to present the solution to their problem.
If a user doesn’t know how to properly identify a solution, you could flag the solution/OP as something else and inform the moderators of the more appropriate reply in the thread as the solution. I personally would just message the OP’s author about it and leave it to them because I respect what they consider as a “solution”. However it’s still spam since it’s nothing meaningful and abuse of the plugin, so I’d flag it if they fail to comply.
Marking posts created by the OP’s author as solution is not something we should avoid/disable and can be easily bypassed if the author just edited the OP to say something like
SOLUTION!
[Link to Reply in the Thread]
Solutions are not designed to be a statistic to benefit you, infect I believe no promotions on the forum require X amount of solutions.
Their main purpose is giving an accurate answer to anyone who has the same problem in the future.
The only thing I slightly disagree with is one user cough buildthomas cough likes to give himself solution on posts not made by him 
Only reason I’m not a fan of that is it’s assuming your solution is the right answer.
buildthomas wouldn’t be given the permission to mark posts as solutions if he was only going to abuse it. He marks posts as solutions because he cares about the quality of posts and wants to promote the most accurate information available. (sometimes to direct the thread in the right path)
He uses his powers responsibly and to everyone’s benefit
If you disagree with his actions, why not tell him about it instead of throwing shade?
In certain cases I think giving solutions to yourself is fine as long as your post makes sense being the solution. For example, lets say you create a topic asking for some help with fixing a piece of code and then soon after you find the solution to the problem on your own, you should then create a posts explaining how to fix the problem and mark that post as the solution.(This is providing no one else has replied with an adequate solution already)
Putting solutions on posts that just say “thanks” is just abuse of the solutions feature and these sorts of posts are just unnecessary spam and should be flagged. Use the like feature to show your appreciation and put likes on any post that helped you solve the problem. Then use the solution feature to mark the post that best solves your problem as the solution so that anyone reading your topic in the future will know what post solves the problem at a glance.
I only do this regularly in categories where I know I am the best authority to decide what the best solution is (Forum Feedback). I care about users knowing what the actual solution of a topic is at a glance.
If someone marks their own post as solution / the wrong post, just send a message to @Community_Sage with a link to what you think the solution should be.
Firstly I hope it was obvious it was a joke and not some snarky remark / attack. But I do also respect that anyone living outside of England most likely won’t appreciate my sarcasm.
I never said he abused it, I just said I would prefer the OP to be able to decide what best fitted his / her problem. Of course if the post died down without a solution then I believe it would be more fair.
I believed it can be compared to this issue in which im just not a fan of staff speaking through another person.
I got that it was a joke, but in reality not all jokes can be laughed at.
I went for a strong term to project my stance, but I guess it was far fetched
English humour 
I never meant for anything to come off as an insult / a complaint I was just really suggesting I wasn’t a fan of the technique in a humorous way.