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by diabetic

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As I wander through Tech Reublic in a never-ending quest for additional points, I cannot help but notice the number of very old questions (some as much as 9 months old) in which someone has posted a question and someone else has answered, but the person posting the question never closed it out, awarding the points. The question just sits there and remains open.

I think it would be useful for TR to adopt a policy where any question more than n days old can be closed by the TR staff and if they deem that the question has been sufficiently answered, then they can award the points (or not).

As it stands now, a person can simply post a question, offer points and after reading all the answers, simply choose not to close the question, thus cheating those who put time and effort into anwsering questions.

I'd love to hear from someone in authority at TR to see if they believe this is a problem and what their plans are for addressing it.

humbly submitted,
diabetic

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by syscokid

If a question has more than one unrated answer, the question is autoclosed after 3 months and points are split among all unrated answers.

If a question has only one unrated answer, for some reason it is never autoclosed. I don't know why.

Same thing if a question has no unrated answers (i.e., it's still open but all offered answers have been rejected.

Not a responsible TR person, just a user.

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