# Responding to "solved" topics

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/responding-to-solved-topics/62927>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** solved\
**Created:** [May 18, 2017, 7:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/responding-to-solved-topics/62927 "2017-05-18T07:28:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sujan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sujan/32/70979_2.png) [@Sujan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Sujan)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2017, 7:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/responding-to-solved-topics/62927/1 "2017-05-18T07:28:20Z")

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We have people finding old posts via Google that were solved ages ago. Because they think they have the same problem, they just post their own dump on the bottom and hope for answers. Most regular users tend to ignore “solved” topics though - so this doesn’t end in happy users 😕

Might it be useful to add some kind of information when posting into a solved topic that mentions this somehow?

> You are responding to a topic that was already marked as “solved”.  
> You are more likely to get a new set of eyes on your problem by creating a new topic.

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