# Notify a question's author with request to choose and mark a solution
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-a-questions-author-with-request-to-choose-and-mark-a-solution/36069
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** solved
**Created:** [2015 年 11 月 26 日午後 7:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-a-questions-author-with-request-to-choose-and-mark-a-solution/36069 "2015-11-26T19:37:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@dmitry\_fedyuk](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dmitry_fedyuk)
#### Post date: [2015 年 11 月 26 日午後 7:37 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-a-questions-author-with-request-to-choose-and-mark-a-solution/36069/1 "2015-11-26T19:37:25Z")
I see the feature in the [Lithium Forums](http://www.lithium.com/products-solutions/online-communities/forums) software: it send a letter to a question’s author in a week after the question to engage him to choose a solution:
> Your topic recently received a reply.
> Topic: …
> Date: …
> Did it solve your problem?
> Click here to view the reply and mark one as an Accepted Solution.
> This helps others find helpful answers in the community too!
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### Author:  [@alefattorini](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alefattorini)
#### Post date: [2015 年 12 月 21 日午前 10:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-a-questions-author-with-request-to-choose-and-mark-a-solution/36069/2 "2015-12-21T10:26:55Z")
As I just said here, it might be very effective:
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-solved-accepted-answer-plugin/30155/117?u=alefattorini](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-solved-accepted-answer-plugin/30155/117)
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### Author:  [@alefattorini](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alefattorini)
#### Post date: [2016 年 2 月 1 日午前 10:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-a-questions-author-with-request-to-choose-and-mark-a-solution/36069/3 "2016-02-01T10:55:34Z")
Any thoughts about it? Just looking through the support category, I can notice that just 20 topics of 100 are checked as resolved. Is it a real stat? Or it’s only that OP doesn’t remind to check topic as solved?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2016 年 2 月 1 日午前 11:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-a-questions-author-with-request-to-choose-and-mark-a-solution/36069/4 "2016-02-01T11:02:17Z")
I don’t know, I view the “accepted answer” as a “nice to have” as opposed to a “every loop in the system must be closed”
Bugging people with email is a two edged sword, it may be effective, it may cause them to devalue emails from Discourse.
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### Author:  [@alefattorini](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alefattorini)
#### Post date: [2016 年 2 月 1 日午後 5:41 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-a-questions-author-with-request-to-choose-and-mark-a-solution/36069/5 "2016-02-01T17:41:20Z")
Yes, but simply people don’t remind to check or answer and confirm the solution. Often I have to mention them requesting their attention 🙂
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### Author:  [@downey](https://meta.discourse.org/u/downey)
#### Post date: [2016 年 3 月 1 日午後 5:17 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-a-questions-author-with-request-to-choose-and-mark-a-solution/36069/6 "2016-03-01T17:17:38Z")
**This is also a huge problem for us.** If people aren’t accustomed to participating in Q&A communities like SO, for example, it doesn’t occur naturally to them that there’s any value in marking a reply as the Accepted Answer.
We could reply to the topic but that would only unnecessarily bump it. We could send a private message but that’s harder to track and people other than the poster won’t get any education that they too should accept answers.
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### Author:  [@alefattorini](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alefattorini)
#### Post date: [2016 年 3 月 8 日午前 11:55 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-a-questions-author-with-request-to-choose-and-mark-a-solution/36069/7 "2016-03-08T11:55:48Z")
Currenlty I MUST re-read the entire support topic checking the right answer and using admin’s powers!
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [2017 年 10 月 16 日午前 9:36 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-a-questions-author-with-request-to-choose-and-mark-a-solution/36069/8 "2017-10-16T09:36:26Z")
@bekicot submitted a PR for this:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse-solved/pull/67](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-solved/pull/67)
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### Author:  [@loginerror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/loginerror)
#### Post date: [2020 年 5 月 7 日午前 9:24 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-a-questions-author-with-request-to-choose-and-mark-a-solution/36069/12 "2020-05-07T09:24:51Z")
メールなしで、フォーラムのリマインダーはいかがですか？
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### Author:  [@osioke](https://meta.discourse.org/u/osioke)
#### Post date: [2020 年 5 月 7 日午前 10:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-a-questions-author-with-request-to-choose-and-mark-a-solution/36069/13 "2020-05-07T10:26:18Z")
私にはそれがより良く、かつ侵入性が低いように思えます。#pr-welcome なのでね 😉
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [2023 年 11 月 19 日午前 8:42 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/notify-a-questions-author-with-request-to-choose-and-mark-a-solution/36069/14 "2023-11-19T08:42:50Z")
[Automate reminders to mark solutions](https://meta.discourse.org/t/automate-reminders-to-mark-solutions/155033) にて承知しました。