How to enable "Answer your Own Question" ?
Sorry for this question, but I can not find this option.
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I was able to enable it by editing the following files:
skins/default/templates/question/content.htmlskins/default/templates/question/new_answer_form.html
In the first, change
{% if question.closed == False and request.user == question.author %}{# this is outside the form on purpose #}
to this:
{% if question.closed == False %}{# this is outside the form on purpose #}
And in the second file, remove this line:
{% if user == question.author %}style="display:none"{% endif %}
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Probably this will be covered by an option. People should be able to answer own questions in general.
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We've removed it, but we will re-enable this feature via an option.
Is it done? I'd like to remove the possibility to answer one's own question.
@Evgeny, bump :)
@siovene just curious - what is the point of now allowing to post self-answers?
@Evgeny, because in my case, many people will not read the FAQ and think it's a forum and so they want to add a follow-up question or a comment, and they use the answer field because they see it first.
@siovene, ok I understand. Still - the problem is not that it's bad to give self answers, but inadequate user training. So I think it would be better to be able to re-post answer as a question (don't have this feature yet) or convert answer to a comment.
@Evgeny, the thing with "convert answer to comment", currently, is that it ends up being a comment to the question. In my case, maybe the user wanted to comment an answer, but posted an answer instead. "Re-post answer as question" doesn't work, IMHO, because the new question will be out of context.
In my case I would gladly sacrifice the ability to answer one's own questions, in exchange for the fact that people won't post answers when they should've posted a comment.
Is this feature coming or do I have to make room in my schedule to implement it myself (I would provide a pull request of course, but I can't get around to this for a few months, probably, as I'm really busy with other features for my site (out of askbot's scope.)
I've created a pull request with this feature: https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel/pull/115