There is no mechanism to automatically alert moderators that a thread in a forum has a reply marked proposed answer (or answer). It is possible to mark any thread "Alert me" and get email alerts of all activity in the thread, but it would
not be practical to get alerts for every thread in a forum. However, anyone can filter all the threads in any view by "Proposed answers", "Answered", or "Unanswered". The default is "All threads".
Every moderator works differently, but at least once a day I filter on "Proposed answers" in the forums I moderate and mark appropriate answers. However, since the desired result is always to have the OP (the person that asked the question) mark the
answer, I wait at least 7 days after a reply is marked proposed before I mark it as the answer (assuming I agree that the reply answers the question). But this policy does require more work, and in a forum with a lot of activity moderators may not wait
so long.
Some forums are in need of more moderators. Do you think the forum(s) you frequent could use more moderators?
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