Seeing a lot of this lately. Doesn’t quite seem tickety-boo. Or am I being overly, um, you know.
Every one have a nice weekend. 
(edited for a missing “seem”. Doh!
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Hi @Googly_Smythe ,
I’m with you, that’s not
That’s all the more annoying whenever this marked “solution” isn’t the actual soultion. This isn’t very helpful for future users who are looking for answers:
- They can’t see if the “solution” right under the initial post might be a possible fix for their problem at hand
- They don’t know if ther thread is worth a read at all if the “solution” is some sort of “I solved it myself” (after someone else provided a detailed step-by-step solution - not a nice thing to do, anyways)
I think this is annoying to be honest.
Actually, I’m asking myself the same question…
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Even if I DO find my own solution, I won’t click my own post as “Solution.” It’s bogus.
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“Help - looking for my left elbow”.
Own post marked as solution: “Found it”.
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I feel the same as you - because the “solutions” are part of the badges, which act as a sort of karma credibility rewards - and arguably serve as a “thank you” for the help provided.
And I have provided numerous posts which identified the problem pretty well and by implication made it pretty obvious how to fix it. But then the OP with the problem posted the (now obvious) step by step fix and marked their own post as the solution, effectively “rewarding” themselves rather than my post.
And more often than not, not even a hint of acknowledgment that my post got them looking in the right place.
Being a very imperfect human being myself, on some days that bugs me more than on others. And on the days it bugs me a lot, the individual behaving that way ends up in my temporary block list, meaning I won’t bother with trying to help them for a while.
on the other hand …
On days that I’m feeling less grumpy, I do realize, that for future readers of a thread (and the AI {A-hole Ingestors of other people’s work}) , the self rewarding “solution” post is arguably the better post to read as the step by step solution).
So I am torn between the desire of a little “thank you” and being a truly altruistic human.
And where I land oscillates from day to day (or hour to hour). 
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I’d love to give you at least two likes for that post @Nico5 - if only I could 
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When I see a post marked as a solution, where it’s actually a different post that provided it, I switch the solution checkbox to it. I don’t catch them all, obviously – let me know of any… I can fix
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I don’t see that it matters who posts the solution, as long as it is correctly done so. The purpose of the forum is to spread correct information, and who does that seems not relevant to me, whether it’s the OP, or anyone else.
I wonder if I’m missing something important here?
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All too often it isn’t. So it devalues the system. That’s my gripe.
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How about the other one?
When somebody gives the solution early on in jargon, but as the thread keeps going (because it wasn’t time for the words to stick with the OP), someone comes in and translates to Common/Plain. And then the solution goes to that person. I’ve had some solutions given to me this way, which is bad form, well not as bad as marking one’s own as a solution, but still…
Or follow-up posts. You read someone’s post, you go “Alright, this solves it, good advice. But let me add some extra info that the OP or others might find useful.”, and then the OP comes and gives you the solution. Awkward.
People are people. As long as it’s not done on purpose, I’m ok with it.
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If an OP changes the Solution, if he explains why, then I’m ok with it, also.
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What’s your take on OPs who don’t mark a solution at all although there is one in plain sight and which would help future users?
Sometimes I am asking the OP nicely - first and formost if it’s not my own solution. Although I always explain why that would be a nice thing to do, I always feel like this is borderline nitpicky and nerdy. So I don’t whenever I’m in doubt or not in the mood to do so which is like 90% of the time.
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On the few times I’ve come across this, I just ask the OP to mark the solution as the Solution. They usually do.
Nicely, is the key word!
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Other than The Lounge, I think the overall, generalized use-case for the other Categories are for technical discussions where most of them seem to be issue-oriented. The purpose of the “Solution” flag is so that people searching for issues can see where they have been solved.
I don’t think you’re being nitpick and nerdy at all - I think you have a reasonable expectation that people use the classifications afforded by the forum are used to the benefit of others. That, of course, presumes people search for issues in the first place, which is another issue in itself.
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Absolutely. Even if I narrow down a search by adding a specific author, the correct keywords and roughly the date (because I know exactly what I’m looking for) the list of results will probably not reflect the post/thread I had in mind. Being used to established search engines in the real world this is a rather dissappointing performance. Anyways, this has nothing to do with Steinberg - it’s on the platform (“Discourse”) this forum is based on.
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The Discourse software’s search function is indeed pretty bad, so I mostly resort to the big G, adding the postfix site:forums.steinberg.net which tends to yield much better results in my experience. And frequently I restrict the search down further by time (e.g. limit the results to the last 12 months), so I don’t get 10 year old answers.
p.s. In general usage, I like the Discourse software better than any of the other forum engines I’ve used over the decades.
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It never crossed my mind to search the forum via the big G and a postfix - good idea! Cheers 
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