That's a good point and stops a lot of repeat questions. I agree with what your saying.

Totally agree. I've done my best to follow up with all my posts, pretty sure I have.

*Edit*
Guilty, Guilty! I was just going through my old posts and I have a couple to finish up with myself. Will do.

It's normal for some people to do that and not leave a response
to their problems but its always good to post back for future references.

Yes, this is very annoying.

And it not only relates to pinball. Being in the software industry, it's extremely annoying, and I think this comic sums up my feelings well:

wisdom_of_the_ancients.png

I never resolved my display problem. oops! sorry.

Couldn't agree with you more. It is very helpful to the other members of Pinside if you at least post an update on how you did or didn't resolve the issue.

I've seen it over the years
a guy will join because his pin doesn't work or something happened to it?
Very upset in near panic mode and over the next few days/weeks will demand answers
and then 'poof' you never see /hear from him again.
I guess it's human nature not everyone gives or gives back - some cats only take & then split?

I could not agree more. Sometimes I follow the threads that I can contribute to and like to hear what the resolution is. If my suggestions help, great. If not, what was the fix?

Agree 100% Robert.

Every TECH thread deserves an epilogue by the OP.

Common courtesy to those who contributed as well as for the benefit of others in the future.

I joined up here in June 2011, ran into my first problem with my first purchased pin.

Received some good feedback and tips, which eventually led to me having to hire an experienced pin-tech to resolve the issue. At that time there were things I could and did check, but with having a board issue, and then going with purchasing a brand new alltek all-in-one board, then having the rectifier board go out, and it being repaired by the tech, my pin has been up and fully running since the repair was completed in late july 11'.

All of which I posted about in the thread which I created at the time.

I agree with you 100% robertmee, if people are generous enough to share their wisdom with the newbies, the newbies owe it to the pro's here to follow up with a final synopsis on the resolution to the problem(s). Like you said, it's common courtesy. I know for some people these days that's a quality that's lacking in them. It's all about gimme gimme gimme, and no give back.

It would also be really cool that when the answer to the problem was correctly given/solved in the thread it could have a different color (highlighted) to make it easier to find!!!

Just my two tokens though!

Its possible that many threads do not have closure due to the fact that the problem was never resolved by the op. Sometimes the help posted by others can be a little overwhelming to people new to repairing and they just kinda give up the thread when they realize they cannot fix it themselves. Unfortunately I speak from experience here. I do agree that tech-help threads deserve some kind of completion, even if its just to say something like...thanks everyone, Im in a little over my head and am going to get someone to look at it with me. I will post what the solution turns out to be.

I'm guilty of this. Sorry.

Maybe we could use a permanent Pinside etiquette post at the top of the Forum for Newbies. Probably would have helped me. Probably still could.

Perfect Robert!!! I find it exasperating to follow all the back-and-forths of an attempt at resolving a problem, (for I am trying to 'learn' from reading), and then finding it just stops dead in its tracks! I've wasted a lot of time . . .
Mike

I'll follow mine up, I am also guilty of this.

Agreed,Please follow up with the resolution etc.etc.

Isn't that the truth,makes you wanna start drinking (more)

+1 from me as well.

This board was huge in helping fix my first machine, an EM game. The thread count was huge, but we kept posting what did and did not work; along with final resolution. The follow-up and support i got from the board was great. At the very least, it can help someone in the future.....

I typically don't post on boards anywhere... But I like the community so much on Pinside, that I have stayed with and keep posting.

For what its worth.......

I didn't read the whole thread, sorry I'm short on time. Has anyone suggested a function like this to Robin? A color-coding, or tag for an initial forum post that is a problem someone has with a machine? Like red text for the post while a problem is unresolved, and the ability to turn it green once it's fixed?

Then when people browse the history, they would know where a problem was brought to resolution by the color of the text on the title link, or some icon that could be displayed?

Just a thought.