I realize that I am probably digging up a corpse that is long dead ... but ... there is no mechanism for the Question submitter to identify "end-of-pursuit" for responses or interactions regarding a previously submitted question. I am sure that is one reason why the above question was submitted.

Also, there is no way for a Question submitter to apply the "Acceptable Solution" checkmark to any of the given comments, which are sometimes very helpful and resolve the original issue (being able to do so would give due credit to commentor, and closure to the question, highlighting a "state of resolution".

To that end, when the submitter does not want to mislead by inappropriately selecting the "checkmark for accepted solution", could there also be another icon for a new state that flags a question as "submitter dormant/abandoned/archived" ?

Also, as another viewpoint regarding the handling of these questions "ignored" by the submitter, what if there was a mandatory deadline of 1 or 2 weeks after the last submitted comment/answer, and if that is not addressed by the Question submitter, then they would be blocked from submitting additional questions within that forum only (i.e. SuperUser, or Linux&Unix), allowing for the fact that some members "move on" and never come back, until that "deliquent" Question has been addressed.

Going a step further (not sure about this one), if the member has been blocked on a forum for over 1 year, it would seem reasonable (IMHO) to consider they are not coming back and that the member be removed from that forum completely.

I see these as progressive responses to the demonstrated lack of complying with expected interaction as regards to a given question that remains in limbo. After all, if the site is geared to Question AND Answers, there must be either that ... OR ... Question AND "Notice of Abandonment" of some kind. I believe it is reasonable to say that NO Question should be allowed to remain in limbo indefinitely.

"Unsettled" issues, which "abandoned" questions represent, don't seem to be serve much purpose for anyone.

I would suggest that such "abandoned" questions should maybe have a color-coding associated with the Title listing, thereby flagging they have been deemed as "unresolved", one way or another, and would thus discourage visits/views that would likely not be fruitful to the visitors, regardless of how attractive the Question's original wording might have been.

Just some food for thought.

I realize that I am probably digging up a corpse that is long dead ... but ... there is no mechanism for the Question submitter to identify "end-of-pursuit" for responses or interactions regarding a previously submitted question. I am sure that is one reason why the above question was submitted.

Also, there is no way for a Question submitter to apply the "Acceptable Solution" checkmark to any of the given comments, which are sometimes very helpful and resolve the original issue (being able to do so would give due credit to commentor, and closure to the question, highlighting a "state of resolution").

To that end, when the submitter does not want to mislead by inappropriately selecting the "checkmark for accepted solution", could there also be another icon for a new state that flags a question as "submitter dormant/abandoned/archived" ?

Also, as another viewpoint regarding the handling of these questions "ignored" by the submitter, what if there was a mandatory deadline of 1 or 2 weeks after the last submitted comment/answer, and if that is not addressed by the Question submitter, then they would be blocked from submitting additional questions within that forum only (i.e. SuperUser, or Linux&Unix), allowing for the fact that some members "move on" and never come back, until that "deliquent" Question has been addressed.

Going a step further (not sure about this one), if the member has been blocked on a forum for over 1 year, it would seem reasonable (IMHO) to consider they are not coming back and that the member be removed from that forum completely.

I see these as progressive responses to the demonstrated lack of complying with expected interaction as regards to a given question that remains in limbo. After all, if the site is geared to Question AND Answers, there must be either that ... OR ... Question AND "Notice of Abandonment" of some kind. I believe it is reasonable to say that NO Question should be allowed to remain in limbo indefinitely.

"Unsettled" issues, which "abandoned" questions represent, don't seem to be serve much purpose for anyone.

I would suggest that such "abandoned" questions should maybe have a color-coding associated with the Title listing, thereby flagging they have been deemed as "unresolved", one way or another, and would thus discourage visits/views that would likely not be fruitful to the visitors, regardless of how attractive the Question's original wording might have been.

Just some food for thought.