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[WEBSITE] Let the community flag the "Fixed" status
If you look into the "Fixed" category you will find precisely two entries.
However, a much larger number of suggestions HAVE been fixed (as evident by the problem description, by comments or by the label "[FIXED]" added to the title).
Sometimes, the fact that suggestions have been acted upon already is unnoticed and a suggestion gets promoted and promoted, only to rank highly in a list where OPEN problems should be.
It is understandable that the admins do not have the time to go through all suggestions and filter out the fixed once.
A powerful solution to the problem: Let the COMMUNITY vote on whether something has been fixed. Once 5 people have marked a suggestion as fixed, change its status.
Once this feature is added, the community will weed out the fixed ones in no time and the "Fixed" and "Not fixed" categories will at last become useful.
One could also imagine another feature allowing the community to also mark a suggestion as inappropriate, with 5 votes deleting it or hiding it away. A suggestion that comes to mind here: http://www.windows7taskforce.com/view/1167
NOTE: This is NOT a duplicate of http://www.windows7taskforce.com/view/1649 or http://www.windows7taskforce.com/view/452. Please read closely if in doubt. My suggestion has several crucial advantages over only flagging your own suggestion, most prominently not being dependent on the original author.
High
High
Will fix
Interesting step in this direction made, with "Status explanation" feature.
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