Topic Starters, please read:
Close Your Started Thread if You already got the Answer(s) to your querries.
When you see a Mega-Spam Thread, who is the first person to blame? The Topic Starter himself!
Some newbies doesn't really know what they are doing, some members are just stupid enough to bump a
30-page thread with their "
constructive" opinions bringing back the topic on top of the list, so on and so forth, leading to a spam fest.
Closing a thread isn't that hard to do, it will only take less than 10 seconds to click the button.
But I think most of them didn't know how, it's either that the button is too small or first time forum users didn't know that threads can be locked.
TL;DR, Here's very a simple tutorial for Topic Starters:
- After opening the thread you wanted to close, find the "lock topic" button on the Lower-Left part of the page
- If the button is unnoticeable, look at this:
After the thread was locked, the owner can always unlock it whenever he feel that the topic needs a bump or additional posts.
To avoid duplicates or new threads/topics with previously answered questions, edit and add "
[SOLVED]" to the title before hitting the lock button as LoyceV suggested:
For technical questions, it's very helpful to add [SOLVED] to the topic title before locking it.
And here's the best thing: if you have a problem, and you're looking for a solution, add "solved" to your search question in Google. It will help you find what you're looking for.
I hope in the near future, there will be no more MegaSpamFest threads. But memes in the Speculation thread are still welcome.
If you want to add this message to your replies, you can use this: