# Display the user who marked the answer as correct
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/display-the-user-who-marked-the-answer-as-correct/249016
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** solved
**Created:** [December 15, 2022, 8:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/display-the-user-who-marked-the-answer-as-correct/249016 "2022-12-15T08:09:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@Brady1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Brady1)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2022, 8:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/display-the-user-who-marked-the-answer-as-correct/249016/1 "2022-12-15T08:09:19Z")
# why
- reputation of the endorser is important when considering whether to trust a solution or not
- you can incentivize mods to endorse answers well so they get more publicity for themselves and any company they may represent
- you can identify mods who endorse wrong answers and train them to do better
- makes it clear that a mod has endorsed the correct answer, not the OP
- i.e., lots of people have a mental model of how this feature works from stack overflow, where the OP can mark the answer correct. This is unwise for applications where you can’t immediately verify the solution works, and the OP doesn’t have authority on whether the solution is correct, e.g. tax law as is the case for my [tax advice discussion board/forum](http://act60.co)
# how
- I’m not too picky here, but at the minimum the endorser’s name should be prominently displayed and a hyperlink to their profile included:
and if it could play nicely with #post-voting that would be ideal ! 🙏
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### Author:  [@Viola112](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Viola112)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2022, 8:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/display-the-user-who-marked-the-answer-as-correct/249016/2 "2022-12-15T08:18:32Z")
Thats a very good suggestion.
I am a Mod in a small forum und we also use the solution mark.
Sometimes I see solutions marks and I think why. Who has marked this.
It’s easier to get in contact and clarify, why this contribution could be the solution especially, if it is wrong. 😉
Maybe it makes sense, that is only visible for staff team.
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### Author:  [@Brady1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Brady1)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2022, 8:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/display-the-user-who-marked-the-answer-as-correct/249016/3 "2022-12-15T08:26:17Z")
yes good point, training on endorsement mistakes is another good use-case
For my use case (a [tax advice discussion board/forum](http://act60.co)) it makes more sense for all users to be able to see the endorser
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### Author:  [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2022, 11:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/display-the-user-who-marked-the-answer-as-correct/249016/4 "2022-12-15T11:24:12Z")
The way I see it, the OP decides whether an answer is correct and marks it as such.
In cases where staff is allowed to mark answers as a solution, they don’t act as themselves, they act _on behalf of the community_. Which makes it less / not important who marked the solution as such.
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### Author:  [@Tris20](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Tris20)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2022, 11:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/display-the-user-who-marked-the-answer-as-correct/249016/5 "2022-12-15T11:33:48Z")
> [@RGJ](#):
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> In cases where staff is allowed to mark answers as a solution, they don’t act as themselves, they act _on behalf of the community_.
Wouldn’t the presentation of that be useful? If OP doesn’t mark it as solved, then I’d at least like to know that it was marked solved by someone with a solid background in the topic, and not just someone with the power to do so.
Surely moderation should be traceable and transparent as often as possible? This improves both of those factors.
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### Author:  [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2022, 12:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/display-the-user-who-marked-the-answer-as-correct/249016/6 "2022-12-15T12:13:26Z")
> [@Tris20](#):
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> and not just someone with the power to do so.
I agree that those who have that power should use it carefully.
I am not sure if the solution would be “at the minimum the endorser’s name should be prominently displayed and a hyperlink to their profile included” though.
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2022, 1:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/display-the-user-who-marked-the-answer-as-correct/249016/7 "2022-12-15T13:43:00Z")
I think at the very most the only audience for this information is other staff.
As posts can only be marked solved by OP and staff the only significant gap would fall to staff education.
In that case it doesn’t need to be made public.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2022, 2:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/display-the-user-who-marked-the-answer-as-correct/249016/8 "2022-12-15T14:47:42Z")
> [@Stephen](#):
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> As posts can only be marked solved by OP and staff the only significant gap would fall to staff education.
I believe the default is TL4, but you can adjust it lower with `accept all solutions trust level`:
You can also remove the option for the OP too if you fancy with `accept solutions topic author`:
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### Author:  [@ganncamp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ganncamp)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2023, 12:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/display-the-user-who-marked-the-answer-as-correct/249016/9 "2023-03-20T12:32:34Z")
Over and over again I have wished I could tell who marked a post the solution: whether it was the OP or someone who (for whatever reason) wanted to close the topic
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2023, 12:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/display-the-user-who-marked-the-answer-as-correct/249016/10 "2023-03-20T12:39:50Z")
I’ve slipped your post over to this topic to group the requests together. 👍
This also cropped up elsewhere too recently and I created a small [data explorer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/32566?silent=true) query so at least admins(/groups who were granted access) could have a ‘look-up’:
```sql
-- [params]
-- topic_id :topic_id
SELECT target_topic_id,
acting_user_id,
created_at::date
FROM user_actions
WHERE target_topic_id = :topic_id
AND action_type = 15
ORDER BY created_at DESC
```
It’s not exactly what the feature request is aiming for, but may help in some cases.
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### Author:  [@sps](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sps)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2024, 7:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/display-the-user-who-marked-the-answer-as-correct/249016/13 "2024-04-19T19:50:00Z")
+1 to this.
I’d also appreciate if non-mods could also see who marked the solution as well.
> [@Viewing the user who marks the solution](https://meta.discourse.org/t/viewing-the-user-who-marks-the-solution/304660):
>
> Hi everyone wave I’m recently facing an issue where I want to know if the author of the post marked a reply as a solution or if it was an admin/mod. I currently have no idea how to figure that out or if Discourse even shows that. IIRC, Discourse only sends a notification to the author of the reply and the author of the topic if someone else marks the solution. This will also help to keep in check if someone is just marking their own replies as solutions to boost stats.
If possible, something like a hover on solution button could display the name of the user who marked the solution.
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### Author:  [@nat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nat)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2025, 4:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/display-the-user-who-marked-the-answer-as-correct/249016/16 "2025-03-26T04:17:10Z")
Just an update here that this is now possible:
You can see it in action on [https://meta.discourse.org/c/support/6?solved=yes](https://meta.discourse.org/c/support/6?solved=yes)
The site setting `show who marked solved` is disabled by default to keep to the status quo, but you may turn it on if your community feels it is useful.
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### Author:  [@nat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nat)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2025, 12:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/display-the-user-who-marked-the-answer-as-correct/249016/17 "2025-04-07T00:00:30Z")
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