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Putting a [solved] tag at the beginning or at the end of your post title sounds cool, but really, you shouldn't do this. There are actually a few valid reasons for this.
- if you ask us to find an answer to your particular problem, are you sure that you are competent enough to decide whether the problem is solved or not? For example, let's say that your question is "I did a console program, but whenever I execute it from VStudio, the console window disapear and I can't see anything. What should I do?". Then you get the answer "put system("PAUSE"); at the end of your program". You test the solution, it works and then you decide that your problem is solved. You are plain wrong. It seems that your immediate problem is solved, but this is not a good way to do it, and it would require a lengthier explaination (in the case, the correct thing to do is to put a breakpoint before the end of the program). You might think "where is the problem with the solved tag?". Well, who want to help someone who already have solved his problem? When we try to help (by answering your questions in the Beginners forum or in any other forum), we obvioulsy don't read all the threads. We focus on threads that might have some interest, and solved threads are not interesting (because, yeah, you know, you solved your problem). Of course, the result is that noone qualified enough will give you the correct answer to your question, and you would have learned a very bad habit.
- Someone might have a slightly different problem, and the solution of his problem might not be exactly the same. If you put a solved tag he will start another thread, but if you don't he will be more likely to add anotehr post in your thread - obviously, this can't be bad since the coming answers might lighten some other obscure points that deal with the same subject.
- Even if the problem is correctly solved, some important discussion might arise from the different answers. For example, if Fruny gives some very good hint about the SCL, someone might ask another question ("why do you use tranform()? You would be able to do a loop instead"), and the discussion is AS IMPORTANT AS your problem - maybe not for you, but since everybody is here to learn something, discussions about the tiny details of a particular solution might help a lot. Again, putting a [solved] tag in your thread title prevent this discussion to arise because your subject is considered "closed".
- Frankly, I'd prefer to get a "thank you for your help" in another post in the thread than to have a somewhat laconic [solved] tag in the title. Of course, I don't really care about whether you thank me or not (I don't ask anything at all - my goal is to help, not to be honored as your savior)
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