Just How Do You CLOSE Topics?

[dec]

Just how do you CLOSE Topics?

can't find ANY option/function to do this

[Florian]

You can mark topics as solved and they'll close after a month of no replies.

[dec]

yea, yes, i know, dear Florian, but, myself, i find it very untidy and confusing to have all these topics cluttering up the list when they they have been finished or resolved already.

[ohrenkino]

As a participant in this forum I appreciate feedback about the suggested solutions. The easiest way is to mark a post as solution as that will be shown immediately under the initial description. So other users (who hopefully nourish on the huge amount of knowledge already accumulated in the forum) do not have to read through the whole thread to find the solution.
Also, the "solution" states that there is a solution and the disussion on this particular topic can be closed.
So IMHO it is good practice to give the feedback that there is a solution and also to search the forum for similar problems, preferably those threads with a solution.
That is why I think that threads should remain open until a solution has found or to make clear that the initial question could not be solved (for whatever reason).

[Florian]

You can list open and unsolved topics using search, e.g.,

https://community.mp3tag.de/latest?solved=no&status=open

And I think you can participate in keeping the latest posts list uncluttered by marking your solved posts as such and by using the search feature more often.

[dec]

well, of course, they stay open until there are Resolved OR if it just gets too hard

[ohrenkino]

@dec

OR if it just gets too hard

but then the poster could give even this a feedback. Just leaving topics unresolved is not very friendly for other users who might stumble across the thread and also I think that participants in the thread, who invested time and effort, would like to get an answer.

[dec]

... not sure if we are at cross-puposes, but i mean it must often happen that there is NO "Resolutiuon/Solution", so it just needs Closing.

[ohrenkino]

I see that you asked the question about closing a thread in this discussion:

Replace/Delete Function

two related questions 1 just want to delete the contents of a field, but i see no such Delete function, only Replace ok, so i tried to use Replace, but it does not recognise '*' as a wild card character to replace anything (with null) so answers to both of those issues would be nice i checked previous Posts, but they were mostly for more complex cases

I think that the problem has not been solved for you as you then started a new thread on a very similar topic:

Redux: What parameter/expression can i use in te Original field when i want all/any?

No. This would search for an empty string (which usually does not exist). You have to let go the idea that you have to search for a string and then replace it. The concept is that you if you refer to the complete field, then you simply overwrite it completely with an action of the type "Format value" or Convert>Tag-Tag. You use this method also to add new data to fields that did not exist previously.

in both cases you did not give the feedback whether the problem was solved or not - and the question how to close that thread lets me fear that you intend to leave the thread as unsolved as it is.

Additionally, unsolved threads encourage other users to add their comments with the goal to find a solution. So if you simply abandon a thread without the final statement, then I would say that you wasted the time and effort of these users.