To wonder why people don’t read the thread

Yes I agree, the OP should be able to close the thread if they've had enough.

Bathsheba

This is where an edit facility would be so useful - if only we could edit the OP to add, in bold print, "Thank you for your responses, this has now been resolved."

Good idea! Ask for this from GNHQ

I think it would be useful for the OP to be able to have a large RESOLVED button so the word comes up in large print and was hard to miss.

We do not all use GN the same. Some pop in for a few minutes here and there some are on all day.

I pop in so do not read 10 pages of a thread. If the poster has received a satisfactory reply and readers have seen that then the answer is not to keep revisiting the thread to see what others have written.

Lucca & Blossoming
Neither of you are wrong.

This is where an edit facility would be so useful - if only we could edit the OP to add, in bold print, "Thank you for your responses, this has now been resolved."

I agree Lucca but that’s human nature I guess. I’ve noticed sometimes that people are more interested in recounting their own experience than answering the OP.

If the OP came back and we could see the message in green it would be so much easier.
I dont have time to read through pages and pages of the threads so I try to skim through to see if the OP has come back and replied, sometimes I expect I miss it, because I didn’t see it.

I agree, Lucca, although I have no idea about specifics this time.

It's maddening when someone comes onto a thread and asks a question that someone has taken the time to answer upthread, and expecting a repeat of the reply. It's basically saying that their time is more important than everyone else's, isn't it? Not only that, but constant repetition drags threads out and makes it even less likely that newcomers will read them.

Perhaps if an issue has been sorted, the OP could ask HQ to delete the thread after a while?
(Although I recognise that one person’s issue can prompt relevant discussion by others. )

Even with lockdown there aren’t enough hours in the day to keep track of every post and every thread , so that this sometimes happens is pretty understandable!

Oh Ok I consider myself reprimanded. I dont read it all if the thread is pages and pages long. What I am more likely to do if a bit of skim reading is not acceptable (as it seems it may not be) then I dont contribute at all. I didn't realise there was a minimum time one MUST spend on Gransnet.