Upvote important questions on ask.libreoffice.org ([Bug 51894] https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/ misses a ask.libreoffice.org link)

[Robinson Tryon]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Philipp Riemer <ruderphilipp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, it seems as if I am not the only one in this
> situation... There are currently quite a lot of questions (n=953)
> un-answered.

It's not currently possible to mark a "Best Answer" for a question in
LO's deployment of Askbot:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51569

Questions from the last few weeks have been accumulating with nobody
empowered to "close them out" and mark them as Answered. Some of the
questions don't have (complete) answers yet, but it's hard to find the
signal in all of the noise.

> but as far as I understand in
> contrast to e.g. bugzilla there is no option to close a question if it
> was answered.

The Askbot software offers at least three user options to 'close 'questions:
1) The asking party (original user who posed the question) can accept an answer
2) The asking party can delete the question
3) (I believe) A user can close someone else's question if they have
enough karma

AFAIK, the only currently working option on LO's ask site is #2. This
is rather suboptimal.

--R