Hint: how to edit the title (subject line) of a topic (thread), or add the 'Solved' prefix

[Cath O'Deray]

A number of topics are solved, but not marked as such.

There seems to be no guideline. Please, can one be added?

With a screenshot, or two, to make XenForo less ambiguous.

Forum Rules and Guidelines (REQUIRED READING)

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Thanks

 

[eepete]

done, tnx. The two-step process was not obvious to me, your message spurred me to investigate further. The Edit Thread, then, in the pull-down menu on the left, you can get to solved was not clear. Thanks again for the reminder.

 

[astyle]

Sometimes, topics are marked as 'solved', because it's solved as far as the topic originator is concerned. But others in the audience may not agree that a topic is solved. And sometimes, people keep posting to a 'solved' topic.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

The opposite, here:

solved, but not marked as such.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

The two-step process was not obvious to me, …

Above, I added a second screenshot.

As a pair, do the shots make sense? (Without the need to explain in writing.)

Thanks

 

[mr8ash]

Above, I added a second screenshot.

As a pair, do the shots make sense? (Without the need to explain in writing.)

Thanks

done. Thankx again for sharin.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

… I tried to edit the prefix of the thread to mark it as solved, but perhaps because I'm a new user, or because I already changed the title of the thread once, I do not see the option to edit the thread title now.

… I don't see a hamburger / ellipsis menu like that, I only see a the "unwatch" option

Your guess about change once might be correct.

Your first post/comment was on 16th January, so, I guess, retry on the 26th.

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Two old topics, both of which predate migration to XenForo:

Ability to edit first post

I don't know but I'm trying to update my first post in this thread and I can't. Can you guys give us the power to edit our first post as well? Thank you.:e Edit: Actually I can edit this post but I think you guys set it up so you can't edit your post after a certain time. Maybe?? Don't know.

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Ability to edit posts

It is very annoying that one cannot edit one's posts until 10 days have elapsed from when one joined. I see the reason bandied about as "this prevents spam", but seriously, allowing a brand new poster to post multiple new posts must surely be worse than allowing previous posts to be edited...

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Around ten years ago <https://xenforo.com/community/threads/new-spam-tactic-editing-posts.62857/post-666836> (before my time) there was a change to XenForo (1.3). I can't tell what was changed, but I imagine that it's broadly consistent with the present day experience. In a nutshell: anti-spam.

 

[ivanov]

Thanks for looking into this, Graham.

Your first post/comment was on 16th January, so, I guess, retry on the 26th.

It's the 28th now, just tried and still no dice.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

Success! Seems like now that I'm out of my probationary post period, …

Thanks! Maybe part of the equation was ten non-spam items. <https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/92139/> was your tenth.

I shouldn't speculate further (elsewhere, away from The FreeBSD Forums, I found a topic about how to combat the type of spam account that evades a criterion).