Additions to support workflow on drupal.org

Hi all,

I've been spending time on drupal forums since last night voraciously when I realized my open source karma has gone really really down. During my attempts to answer forum topics (20-25 nodes) I felt that there are so many repeated questions asked and there is no way for a legible forum topic author to find out if the question was previously answered correctly. I am not sure if this has been already talked about but I think it would be useful to provide facility for the forum topic author to tick one of the answer to be correct and the topic to be marked "answered". There are already instances of this methodology in test and production at

Google's web masters forum - http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters?hl=en Here in either a moderator or the topic starter marks a query to be "answered" when he has fixed this issue. Here is a link to one of the answered question http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=3607465affa6...

Yahoo answers - http://answers.yahoo.com/ where in the user also selects the best answer (which might be overkill) Here is a link to an answered question - http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Agx9BCFbZa4LODhzXw9YBjrpy6I...

Amazon developer forum - http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?threadID=2972...

I think it will help in following ways:

1> Let people build their karma ( in my user profile it will be cool to see I've answered these many questions)
2> With some minor edits and linking, integration of answered questions to "obese" faq ("how do I do this")
3> With some more edits and linking, Inclusion in documentation (How to)

Challenges:
1> It might be difficult to get topic starter to tick it answered, but I see hope coz I got atleast 4 thank you's and instead of thank you they tick it answered.
2> Point 2 and 3 would require more volunteers, but then I am up for it if needed.

Again, I am not sure if this is discussed before, Its also not one of my vile fantasies to have it without putting my own time. I am willing to work on it with code and doing the manual work of edits and linking (if we have a workflow in place). Here I am talking about forums to have very light capabilities of issues (like this issue is fixed, this topic is answered).

Let me know if the webmasters fancy it, I am willing to spend time on this.

Thanks