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I noticed that a lot of new users use the comment on an answer to say "works!", "thanks!" etc. What about opening a pop-up to any user commenting with a reputation less than say 50 with "if this was useful/correct, do not comment; vote the answer up and if solved the problem, accept it". (the last part only if it was his/her question). And maybe a shortcut to do that in the same pop-up. It could really help...
If we had a reasonably short list (say 100) of big canonical QA, a tool to flag a question to point there with only a couple of clicks would be great. For example, a blog page with links to all the canonical QA "ready". I often find that the search of the site is quite lousy (site:askubuntu.com on google is much better).
Maybe we can add a flag to say to a moderator that the question seems solved but the OP didn't mark as such. I imagine the mods will be able to mark it as solved... or not? (Or maybe is too much burden?)
The part that too many OP does not bother to mark a question solved (and sometime even not voting it up) is quite annoying. Wouldn't for example a reminder when one answer is voted up a minimum of times help? Or giving more points than the +2 we have now?
Reasonable enough answer. Will wait to see if there are more, but you almost convinced me. Now, pointing the "avid asker" to slash7.com/2006/12/22/vampires would be considered rude ;-)?
