# Is it intentional that you can mark whispers as solutions?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-intentional-that-you-can-mark-whispers-as-solutions/80122
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** solved
**Created:** [February 8, 2018, 5:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-intentional-that-you-can-mark-whispers-as-solutions/80122 "2018-02-08T17:54:43Z")
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### Author:  [@anon61128213](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anon61128213)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2018, 5:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-intentional-that-you-can-mark-whispers-as-solutions/80122/1 "2018-02-08T17:54:43Z")
I just marked a whisper as the “solution” of the [Playground](https://forum.fairphone.com/t/playground-features-of-this-forum/28?u=paulakreuzer) topic in our forum.
Now people who can’t usually see whispers see it quoted in the first post.
Maybe that is intentional as theoretically the solution to a certain topic could be found in a whispered post, but in that case I think it would be better to have the option to un-hide that post and only then be able to mark it as a solution.
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### Author:  [@jerdog](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jerdog)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2018, 6:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-intentional-that-you-can-mark-whispers-as-solutions/80122/2 "2018-02-08T18:46:14Z")
As I understand it - a whisper is only viewable by Staff - thus it would seem to be a bug that Whispers can be marked as solutions as in practice posts being marked as solutions are “support” questions and Staff whispers wouldn’t be seen…
I might have just confused the issue as well
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2018, 6:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-intentional-that-you-can-mark-whispers-as-solutions/80122/3 "2018-02-08T18:57:05Z")
I would say this is a bug, a minor bug that only staff can trigger, but yeah a bug
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### Author:  [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2018, 7:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-intentional-that-you-can-mark-whispers-as-solutions/80122/4 "2018-04-25T19:19:10Z")
I just came across this myself - there seem to be a handful of things to keep in mind with whispers, and this is one of them. I was hoping to be able to use solved whispers as a part of my use of discourse as a ticket system. Often I want to mark tickets (discourse messages or topics with ticket tags) complete without informing the person the ticket is about..
[[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) could work for this but does not now.
An alternative to this seems to be making it possible to indicate whispers as the solution without exposing the whisper to non-staff. Maybe this is even a better solution in any case because then it forces us to actually write a note to explain the outcome. ☀
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### Author:  [@southpaw](https://meta.discourse.org/u/southpaw)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2018, 8:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-intentional-that-you-can-mark-whispers-as-solutions/80122/5 "2018-04-25T20:03:40Z")
> [@tobiaseigen](#):
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> I just came across this myself - there seem to be a handful of things to keep in mind with whispers, and this is one of them. I was hoping to be able to use solved whispers as a part of my use of discourse as a ticket system.
I did the same thing @tobiaseigen, and had marked several dozen that way before I realized the exposure! 🙀
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2020, 1:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-intentional-that-you-can-mark-whispers-as-solutions/80122/6 "2020-09-30T13:38:25Z")
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2020, 1:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-it-intentional-that-you-can-mark-whispers-as-solutions/80122/7 "2020-09-30T13:41:34Z")