# 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:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2017, 1:22am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/responding-to-solved-topics/62927/7 "2017-05-19T01:22:57Z")

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Sort of, you get to close stuff faster if you have auto close after solved, cause you would likely set timer a lot shorter.

For example, in our #Support category I would set:

“auto close after last reply” to 2 months  
“auto close after solved” to 2 days

You want to give people a chance to necro a reply to a support question to a degree, but once it is solved, you want to close it pretty quickly.

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