I like that this question is marked "answered", that pretty much says it all about the current state of the (official) forums...
@mightyeriksson As soon as someone posts a reply in a thread that the OP has started with the dropdown option "Ask a Question", Vanilla says the thread is answered, because... it has an answer. The OP has a choice to "accept" answers that actually address what they asked, which will sort to the top of the thread, but they don't have to do this for the forum to indicate the thread is "answered".
It is an utterly ludicrous forum feature, imo, because it's not helpful in 99% of cases, and even bumping the most useful answers removes them from context, breaking threading which is one of the most useful elements of forum communication to begin with.
But... blame that one on Vanilla, and the decision to use Vanilla. Not the state of the game.
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As soon as someone posts a reply in a thread that the OP has started with the dropdown option "Ask a Question", Vanilla says the thread is answered, because... it has an answer. The OP has a choice to "accept" answers that actually address what they asked, which will sort to the top of the thread, but they don't have to do this for the forum to indicate the thread is "answered".
It is an utterly ludicrous forum feature, imo, because it's not helpful in 99% of cases, and even bumping the most useful answers removes them from context, breaking threading which is one of the most useful elements of forum communication to begin with.
But... blame that one on Vanilla, and the decision to use Vanilla. Not the state of the game.
Example:
http://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/neverwinter#/discussion/comment/12900644
Neverwinter Census 2017
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Neverwinter Census 2017
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