Current "Mark as solution" forum behavior is suboptimal

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Hi,

Example case:
I wanted to reply in Tor Browser 12.0 does not respect `user.js`/default settings on first start and decided to first mark answer given by @donuts as solution.

This surprisingly locked the whole post, and didn’t give me any option to further interact with/correct/update it nor to reject “Mark as solution”. Pressing on reply then caused:

An error occurred: Something has gone wrong. Perhaps this topic was closed or deleted while you were looking at it?

@donuts mind unchecking the post as solution, so I can give an answer? Thanks :slight_smile:

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It may be ok to close topic when solution is found, but after days, not hours.

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The post is immediately locked, after clicking on “Solution”.

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Yes… but no, it’s locked 12 hours after the last reply. Which seems to mean that if you click solution 12 hours after it was sent it immediately locks.

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Ah right, thanks!
Does this have to do anything with the fact, that I am a new registered user, or does it apply to all users?

In my opinion, this interval should be raised to maybe some days.

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I don’t think it has anything with you being a new user. But I don’t have anything to test it on.

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@ChrisK, as @HackerNCoder mentioned, it has nothing to do with you being a new user, it’s just how this feature (i.e. Mark as Solution) works in Discourse right now. Thanks for the feedback, I’ll look into this. In the meantime, I have reopened the concerned discussion thread.

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I’m a new user who posted about Norton 360 treating Tor as a Trojan Horse; and even though I just posted that Norton has resolved the issue… I as a new user does not have an option to hit any button saying that there is or has been a “solution.”