Moderation suggestion: visual cue that post as been unmarked as answer by asker.

Suggestion for moderators and/or answerer privilege. Provide a visual cue that someone has marked a post as an answer and the asker has unmarked the post as an answer. As moderators we often get to a post sometime after it has been posted, in that time another moderator or an answerer has marked a reply as an answer and the user has unmarked it as an answer. Without anyway to know the user hasn't accepted that reply as an answer a moderator could mark it as an answer again, annoying the asker.

[499 byte] By [PeterRitchie] at [2007-12-23]

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About 5 years ago, experts exchange allowed people to mark their own comments as answers. It was a disaster. I personally think that the asker should mark a comment as an answer. Anyone else using the thread could also mark a comment as an answer - I think thats ok if it answered the problem they were having. But I don't think someone contributing to the thread should mark their own comment as answer unless the thread is old. I do not believe that the forum software should be changed, but contributors should be asked not to mark their post as an answer in site guidelines.

PAULL at 2007-8-30 >

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I'm not asking that existing abilities to answer a question or not be changed. I'm merely requestion that there be a visual indication that a post had been marked an answer but was unmarked by the thread's creator (or anyone else, if that's easier).

PeterRitchie at 2007-8-30 >

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