# 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:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2017, 7:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/responding-to-solved-topics/62927/5 "2017-05-18T19:30:24Z")

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I think in practice “auto close after solved” would be very very _VERY_ similar to auto close (x) days after last reply.

The only reason not to do that, is if the solution topics are mixed into a category that has non-solution based topics.

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