On Thursday 4th February 2010, the KDE Community Forums is holding a new event called Answer Day. The event will start 00:00 UTC (ends 23:59 UTC), and everyone can participate! We’ll focus on doing the following two things:

Answer unanswered questions In the forums, KDE users can ask questions and help other users. Usually you’ll get an answer pretty fast, but some questions might have been overlooked or nobody knows the answer. The forum has a feature to list the 1000 latest unanswered topics. Not all are questions, but you’ll find a large portion of posts waiting for answers here. So during the Answer Day, we encourage everyone to actively seek unanswered questions to answer. What to do: Click on “View unanswered posts” in the panel, browse through the list and answer as many questions as you can/want to.

Mark topics as solved Before posting a question, it’s recommended that you search the forums first to see if the topic has been covered before. To make it easier to find answers, the forums have a plugin to mark topics as solved (it’s also possible to only search for solved topics). A solved topic will show up with a next to the title in forum view (where you see a list of topics). Clicking on the green checkmark will take you directly to the answer. In topic view (inside a topic), is shown in the title of the post with the best answer. Choosing the best answer is something the topic starter has to do by clicking on under the post with the solution (can be undone with ). Sometimes, however, this isn’t done – maybe the topic starter didn’t know about this feature, or he/she forgot to click on the button.