# How to mark topic as "solved" without adding a reply

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-mark-topic-as-solved-without-adding-a-reply/118695
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** solved
**Created:** [May 26, 2019, 1:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-mark-topic-as-solved-without-adding-a-reply/118695 "2019-05-26T01:56:21Z")
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### Author: ![oshyan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/oshyan/32/212644_2.png) [@oshyan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/oshyan)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2021, 9:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-mark-topic-as-solved-without-adding-a-reply/118695/4 "2021-11-17T21:17:37Z")

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This is actually not a good solution because it doesn’t interact usefully with the “Solved” plugin’s functions, and filtering in particular. Locked/closed topics will still show up in the “Unsolved” filter on-page. You can of course do an advanced search and filter out Closed topics from your results, but that’s less convenient and more cumbersome.

There are multiple requests for the ability to mark topics “Solved” without a reply. There are valid use cases for it:

> [@\[Accepted answer plugin\] Add an ability to accept the initial (topmost) post as a solution](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accepted-answer-plugin-add-an-ability-to-accept-the-initial-topmost-post-as-a-solution/56393/5):
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> Now that we (and presumably many others?) are seeking to use discourse as a ticketing system, would the discourse team be willing to revisit this to allow the ability to accept the OP as a solution, as an admin option perhaps? There are many cases in my recent experience where I did not need to add a reply but still want to mark a topic or message solved.

> [@Can I accept the first post of a topic as an answer?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-accept-the-first-post-of-a-topic-as-an-answer/58384):
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> Is there support for me posting a topic, then going back & updating it as solved, without a second post in the topic? (and related email to people)

I really think this should be reconsidered, or at least I’d like to understand why there is such opposition to doing it. In the case of requests for “mark multiple replies as solution”, I get that it would significantly complicate the plugin implementation and is not worth it. But is that the case with this more simple-seeming request? @sam I’m tagging you because I suspect this might not be seen or addressed otherwise. I apologize of that’s bad form.

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