Title: Resolved Threads – Please read after posting
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Resolved Threads – Please read after posting

 *  [Michael Bishop](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miklb/)
 * (@miklb)
 * [19 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/resolved-threads-please-read-after-posting/)
 * Just a simple request from the volunteers, if someone offers a solution that 
   fixes your problem, **_please_** report back which solution fixed your problem,
   and mark the thread resolved. We do not mark threads resolved, as sometimes a
   solution _seems_ to fix the issue, only to find a few hours later it didn’t work.
   Therefore, only _you_ know if it’s resolved, and only you can mark it.
    Reporting
   back not only is a simple acknowledgment to the volunteers that their effort 
   was not in vain, it is helpful to future users who very well may experience the
   same problem and search the forum. Seeing an issue resolved will obviously be
   the first suggestion they try (I know I would).

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 *  [petersig](https://wordpress.org/support/users/petersig/)
 * (@petersig)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/resolved-threads-please-read-after-posting/#post-494967)
 * Miklb,
    I *did* have a thread to mark [resolved] today. I left a post indicating(
   actually) that I had resolved the problem myself, and what the solution was. 
   Then I saw your post and went back looking for a way to mark the thread [resolved].
   I couldn’t find any way to do that.
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/resolved-threads-please-read-after-posting/#post-494968)
 * petersig–up above, see the This topic is “not resolved” pulldown box. Change 
   that to resolved and click Change button to the right.
 *  [bonafide](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bonafide/)
 * (@bonafide)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/resolved-threads-please-read-after-posting/#post-494969)
 * not to be a pain, but the “This topic is not resolved line” is not a pulldown,
   so you can’t click and change it… or am I such a noob that I don’t realize that
   the example is not what is meant in this particular thread?… if so, clarify the
   language to be more specific please.
 * thx.
 *  [ejm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/llizard/)
 * (@llizard)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/resolved-threads-please-read-after-posting/#post-494988)
 * Bonafide, your second thought is correct. The only people who can change the 
   topic status from unresolved to resolved are the person who created the thread
   and moderators. As mentioned, the moderators are reluctant to change the status
   because only the person who asked the question will know whether the solution
   actually works.
 *  [Samgreen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samgreen/)
 * (@samgreen)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/resolved-threads-please-read-after-posting/#post-495008)
 * Some of the posts of mine I wanted to put the [resolved] on it, don’t have a 
   pull down menu on them. I noted in a followup to those threads they were resolved
   though.

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