If possible, I'd prefer to mark my questions as answered myself. I now had it a few times that my question was marked as answered by somebody, even if I had not read the answer! When I read it I can see if everything is clear to me, then I can mark it as answered. Thanks! 
Best regards
Nico
marking questions as answerd
Mike Attili
If only everyone was as dilligent as you. Generally most people don't bother to do this and we end up with a forum full of apparantly unanswered questions. Then we have to look inside each one to see if it needs an answer or not.
As Jack said - if you are not happy with an answer please mark it as 'Not an Answer' and then the thread will show up as needing more work. I have found people are far more likley to do this with a bad answer than actually bother to mark a correct answer. Its not a perfect system but it seems to work better this way.
Theonlyparts
Can you not unmark answers in your own threads
There are a number of people (mostly the MS staff and the MVP's as I understand it) that have "answer tagging" powers. It's forum policy to mark good answers using the system - whilst I'd hope it helps you, it's also for other members of the community who search these forums.
There are two other possibilities:
- If people forget to check-back and/or don't mark the answers accordingly then people searching these forums now or in the future may not know what replies they should be paying attention to.
- Some people asking questions may not be "qualified" to know when their question has been correctly answered. Having those who do (or should
) know the answer mark them accordingly it can help direct them to the information they need.
There have been a few threads in the feedback forums about like/dislike of the answer tagging.
hth
Jack
Markusx1a
Thanks! I understand your points. And of course you are right when you say I can unmark "answered" questions. I think the system is quite good actually!
So, sorry for complaining, it was just that I wasn't aware of what you pointed out.
Nico