hi All ....

when you post a question ( a Thread) to The Forums

and  your Thread  were accepted By Site Moderators

and when you Start Recieve the Answers ....

and when You Recieve The Best Answer And This Answer Give You All What You Need

You Should Mark Your Thread As Answered By Pressing Mark As Answer On The Thread That Givee You The Answer

This Will Mark Your Thread As Answered And So

it Bcomes   in the forums list

And So Enables The Users To Know Its Status

How will I know for sure that the last post is really the best answer? Maybe someone will come along later and suggest an even more ingenious and elegant solution.

For instance..

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I live the UK. How can I get to China?

Walk.

 
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 I think leaving a post open is a sign of optimism  :-]

Common its simple to understand.

when you the question u asked is no longer troubling you and thats due to a answer to your post then you should mark it answered..

this helps others quickly located complete threads or threads that are somewhat more helpfull...

as far as expecting an ingenous answer which will be even more elegant.. i guess people can still continute to add to that post..isnt it?

i guess so.

It is definately always encouraged that you mark your questions as answered as soon as you have received an appropriate response.  People can add additional answers to a post even after it has been marked as "Answered".

Once a post has become "old", we would discourage anyone from continuing to add responses.  Adding responses to old posts causes them to float to the top of the forum which would cause somebody elses post (possibly still unanswered) to float off the bottom.