# סימון לא עקבי של נושאים כ-☑️ פתרון, הושלם, או תוקן כאן על meta.discourse.org
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistent-marking-of-topics-as-solved-completed-or-fixed-here-on-meta-discourse-org/361193
**Category:** Site feedback
**Created:** [10 באפריל, 2025, 3:11am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistent-marking-of-topics-as-solved-completed-or-fixed-here-on-meta-discourse-org/361193 "2025-04-10T03:11:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@ToddZ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ToddZ)
#### Post date: [21 בפברואר, 2026, 12:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistent-marking-of-topics-as-solved-completed-or-fixed-here-on-meta-discourse-org/361193/22 "2026-02-21T00:29:18Z")
> [@Moin](#):
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> > [@mcwumbly](#):
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> > Create a “gardening” topic where people can make suggestions for any kind of content gardening
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> I suggested the inbox because I thought archiving handled requests might help keep track of what has already been resolved. This could be more difficult in a topic with lots of replies.
I like the idea of a separate area for gardening items, and a group inbox – or even a Gardening category – does sound easier to manage than a megatopic.
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [21 בפברואר, 2026, 12:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistent-marking-of-topics-as-solved-completed-or-fixed-here-on-meta-discourse-org/361193/23 "2026-02-21T00:34:19Z")
> [@ToddZ](#):
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> does sound easier to manage than a megatopic.
It might be worth trying a megatopic first and seeing how it goes.
If it feels unwieldy, we can move to a category (or a tag we norm on using withing Site Feedback).
But for what we are discussing here, I think we might find a megatopic sufficient.
(Chat could play a role here too)
Happy to experiment in this space with you all.
Regardless of the implementation, I do like the idea of having a place where this kind of collaboration can happen among the people who care to pay attention to this level of detail.
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### Author:  [@ToddZ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ToddZ)
#### Post date: [21 בפברואר, 2026, 12:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistent-marking-of-topics-as-solved-completed-or-fixed-here-on-meta-discourse-org/361193/24 "2026-02-21T00:36:50Z")
> [@NateDhaliwal](#):
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> Less so do I see the need for the #fixed or #completed tags, but just a closing of the topic
I wonder how often a topic is closed without action, as a “won’t fix” or “not really an issue” kind of item. Tags would be the way to filter closed topics on that basis.
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### Author:  [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [21 בפברואר, 2026, 12:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistent-marking-of-topics-as-solved-completed-or-fixed-here-on-meta-discourse-org/361193/25 "2026-02-21T00:37:14Z")
Hmm… if it’s a megatopic, would having automatic reply deletion after, say, a week, make sense? Because if the tag is added/change is made, it won’t need to stay there forever?
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [21 בפברואר, 2026, 12:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistent-marking-of-topics-as-solved-completed-or-fixed-here-on-meta-discourse-org/361193/26 "2026-02-21T00:40:14Z")
🤷♂️ I think it’s ok not to garden the gardening topic itself.
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### Author:  [@nathank](https://meta.discourse.org/u/nathank)
#### Post date: [21 בפברואר, 2026, 2:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistent-marking-of-topics-as-solved-completed-or-fixed-here-on-meta-discourse-org/361193/27 "2026-02-21T02:47:16Z")
Thank you everyone - I think that this discussion has now successfully aired the underlying issues quite nicely, as well as a few quite workable ways to tackle this ‘gardening’ (and I feel heard).
However, I’m not sure a megatopic is the best way forwards for this; if we are maximally flexing Discourse features, then a Chat Channel with threading is a much better fit in my mind.
This sort of stuff is definitely **ephemeral** ; once a ‘small thing’ is fixed, there is zero value in keeping a record of the fact on a Topic. Likewise, there would be no value in these trivial / gardening things turning up in search at all.
It would also make it a reasonably easy thing to find, and relatively unobtrusive. It would also allow a convenient emoji to mark when something was sorted. Maybe TL2 and above to keep it from cluttering things up for newbies?
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [21 בפברואר, 2026, 8:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistent-marking-of-topics-as-solved-completed-or-fixed-here-on-meta-discourse-org/361193/28 "2026-02-21T08:12:54Z")
> [@mcwumbly](#):
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> I think we should aim to get to a place where:
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> - Flags are used for more important things
> - We have a way to handle other things that are more trivial, or for general gardening
This reminds me of this #Contribute > Feature topic [Please distinguish flags for "bad" things from organizational and "please help" flags - #20 by mattdm](https://meta.discourse.org/t/please-distinguish-flags-for-bad-things-from-organizational-and-please-help-flags/266073/20).
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [21 בפברואר, 2026, 8:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistent-marking-of-topics-as-solved-completed-or-fixed-here-on-meta-discourse-org/361193/29 "2026-02-21T08:49:33Z")
> [@mcwumbly](#):
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> It might be worth trying a megatopic first and seeing how it goes.
How do you want to keep track of what has been resolved in the mega gardening topic?
[Missing images at Meta.discourse.org](https://meta.discourse.org/t/missing-images-at-meta-discourse-org/302963) was kind of a gardening topic tied to one problem. To keep track of what had been resolved, checkboxes for each report were added and then checked later. I understand that it was the easiest way to keep track of things there, but all those edits were quite noisy. So, I don’t think this is a good solution for a larger gardening topic.
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [23 בפברואר, 2026, 9:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistent-marking-of-topics-as-solved-completed-or-fixed-here-on-meta-discourse-org/361193/30 "2026-02-23T09:28:27Z")
> [@Falco](#):
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> I’d rather remove the #completed flag. It was applied 400 times and was only created as a way to help people write changelogs, who are dealt with differently nowadays.
I think theres a difference between a closed feature request, and one that has a clear completed tag. The first one could be closed for any number of reasons: no longer valid, won’t do, not possible,…
> [@mcwumbly](#):
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> Grant TL3 and TL4 the power to tag things as such
My only concern with having non-staff do it, is that they have to be _very_ certain it’s actually completed. Hence my preference for trying to make it a habit that the person who fixes or completes something, just updates that on meta.
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [4 במרץ, 2026, 9:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistent-marking-of-topics-as-solved-completed-or-fixed-here-on-meta-discourse-org/361193/31 "2026-03-04T09:45:23Z")
> [@ToddZ](#):
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> I like the idea of a separate area for gardening items, and a group inbox – or even a Gardening category – does sound easier to manage than a megatopic.
> [@nathank](#):
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> However, I’m not sure a megatopic is the best way forwards for this; if we are maximally flexing Discourse features, then a Chat Channel with threading is a much better fit in my mind.
After some brief discussion with @ToddZ, we decided to _start_ with a topic. We’ll see how it goes and adjust as we learn by doing: [Experiment: Collaborative content gardening hub for meta](https://meta.discourse.org/t/experiment-collaborative-content-gardening-hub-for-meta/397606)
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [4 במרץ, 2026, 9:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistent-marking-of-topics-as-solved-completed-or-fixed-here-on-meta-discourse-org/361193/32 "2026-03-04T09:47:45Z")
> [@Experiment: Collaborative content gardening hub for meta](https://meta.discourse.org/t/experiment-collaborative-content-gardening-hub-for-meta/397606/1):
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> Add #completed tag to topics in #Contribute > Feature and #Contribute > Bug that are complete
Wouldn’t it be #fixed in #Contribute > Bug ? And the more fitting one in #Contribute > UX ?
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [4 במרץ, 2026, 9:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistent-marking-of-topics-as-solved-completed-or-fixed-here-on-meta-discourse-org/361193/33 "2026-03-04T09:56:17Z")
Yes, I suppose you’re right.
I’m not sure that distinction is worth it, personally, but until we decide to change that, yes.
I’ve adjusted restrictions on #fixed and #completed so TL3 users can also add them now as well.
I think that’s the better tradeoff for these tags given the discussion here.
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [5 במרץ, 2026, 2:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistent-marking-of-topics-as-solved-completed-or-fixed-here-on-meta-discourse-org/361193/34 "2026-03-05T14:53:09Z")
I’m going to close this topic.
It’s served us well, but it’s a bit of a grab bag, and we have an even bigger grab bag now: [Experiment: Collaborative content gardening hub for meta](https://meta.discourse.org/t/experiment-collaborative-content-gardening-hub-for-meta/397606/1)
There was some good discussion above, but I think at this point, we’d be better off focusing on each use case independently – e.g. how can we improve the experience in our Support categories? I’ve kicked off a new topic about that here: [Improving the experience in our support categories](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-the-experience-in-our-support-categories/397742/)
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [5 במרץ, 2026, 2:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/inconsistent-marking-of-topics-as-solved-completed-or-fixed-here-on-meta-discourse-org/361193/35 "2026-03-05T14:53:32Z")
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