Allow auto close for solved to do so silently

We combine setting a topic to solved with auto-closing it after a certain time.
When a staff member accepts the solution, it will be closed by that staff member.
When a topic owner who is not staff accepts the solution, it will be closed by system.

Is there a way to always have the member that accepted the solution show up as the latest poster? Right now it’s confusing to members why this system icon comes up on their solved topics.

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I don’t think we have an option for this at the moment, but we could possibly add an option to make the “closing” silent. That way there will be no post there and the system avatar will not get involved.

In fact I think that is better default behavior.

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From now on autoclose for solved topics will be done silently which means that system icon will not appear as the latest poster.

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/11392