I misled you actually, I was scared to mark my own post as an answer because I saw a moderator tell someone it's a rule so I looked everywhere and can't find it and wonder why I can mark my own post but it's a rule but I cannot find a rule - this is completely
my confusion.
I do not like OP Mark as answer, but the problem is that it has a legitimate use case -- when the OP has found the answer him/herself, or has needed to combine several responses to arrive at the full answer (in this case the contributing responses should
at least be voted helpful).
Quite a number of OP's do use this feature correctly, but others do not -- they just repeat a given answer and mark their response as the answer. These people may believe that this is the correct way to "close a thread", but it really isn't, mostly
because it deprives the answerer of credit.
This is in contrast to the other scourge of these forums- self-propose. This may also have valid use cases (non-compelling IMHO), but in point of fact self-proposals almost always reflect the lack of humility of the responder rather than the quality of the
response. Therefore, self-propose should be unconditionally banned, IMHO.
David Wilkinson | Visual C++ MVP
