This site needs a more prominent "Mark As Answer" function

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Hi @Ratslinger. I would agree that the site is too hard to navigate. IIUC, one must traverse three pages to be sure he's up to date - the comments page, the Following page, and the general timeline page. Since I've been doing so on a daily basis, the email notifies aren't important to me, but I think you are correct that they are very important to those who come here only infrequently.

It's a complex piece of software, and sometimes muddling through the documentation can be daunting, but I'm sure you're correct, a lot of people simply won't be bothered acknowledging an answer.

I agree that answers that are not solutions probably should not get marked as Answers, because that would give the false impression the problem is solved. In those cases, the Up arrow will allow acknowledging a helpful answer that falls short of being a solution.

I don't think many people are doing much muddling about in the documentation, or even clicking the Help menu button available within LO itself and searching for an answer. But as long as there are plenty of people on this forum ready and willing to give them answers without even gently pointing out the way to self-help, why should they? Just don't expect people coming here for free beer to give you anything in return.

@Liberty Belle I can agree with some of your points. Many questions are answered in docs or even on this site already. Marking an answer as correct may provide those looking for an answer to look at these first since it was confirmed as correct answer.

One other note you may not be aware of. When you marked my answer, you did not mark it as correct. What you did was to upvote answer (good answer). You can also upvote & downvote questions & answers. Clicking the check mark indicates correct.

I know I didn't mark your answer as correct. It's an unresolved issue. While you helped me, which I gave you an upvote for, you didn't answer the question (since you can't--it's a bug).

And I do not think that people who can't be bothered to learn a piece of software or seek answers to their own questions will use the search box on this site to see if a question similar to theirs has already been answered!

Your question was answered correctly - that there's a bug. The answer didn't solve your problem, but it still correctly states what's the problem here. If you accept the answers to your questions, those questions will stand out and be found more easily by other people with the same question who took the trouble to search this board.

Ratslinger's answer should be accepted because it is a good one. Don't think of it as "solved" but rather "helpful' or "accurate." For example, if the question is "can X be done?" and the correct answer is "no" then it should be marked as correct.

OK, so I went ahead and marked the responses confirming my issues as bugs as the correct answers to these questions.

On another note, I answered a question and the asker responded by saying that resolved it. I then responded by asking him to mark the question as answered, and gave what I thought were explicit instructions for how to do so, but he never did. Two people upvoted my answer (no idea if he did), but he did not mark my answer as the answer https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/questi....

@Liberty Belle Welcome to the world of Ask! Saw you comment. That's about all you can do.

My only reason for asking the answer be checked is so others may know an answer was given to their question. Whether it is upvoted or not isn't important. Karma doesn't mean much once you get beyond a certain point.

As for my comment in response to you, it was only a mention of the difference between Upvote & correct answer. No offense intended, but many don't understand either or care. :)

@Ratslinger I didn't take offense. To me, it was merely a question of whether that was the correct action to take in this case or not.

Now I'm really left wondering whether the questioner I linked to upvoted because he didn't understand my instructions or never returned to take any action at all. In other words, misunderstanding or lethargy? Who knows? But it goes to the subject of this whole discussion.

Yes. Good community depends on good interactions, and online we are dependent on the software to a large extent for that to happen. The people and talent are here; I believe the software to a significant extent is hampering them.