This sounds like a great idea, but I think if there was to be an actual system it should be a mix of 2 things: - Automatic recommendation. This should be for all the common cases you described. But this will leave quite a number of false positives/false negatives. Not to mention a lot of people will probably not even bother reading the warning message. - Flag that could be at the same level as other flags, where users would be able to tell that this looks suspiciously like a solved answer, and a mod could take action. The reasons for the mix of these 2 is that, after browsing a bit in the search, there seems to be a great diversity and creativity in the way people mark something as solved, and an efficient system would need to find a good compromise between false negatives and false positives. If we just add a warning, I get the feeling that a lot of people will keep doing it, there needs to be a way to take action if we really want to go that way. **False negatives**: There is still a certain number of posts who would be non-detected by a script but easily by humans (assuming we want to avoid too many false positives). Some examples of posts who would be hard to catch: - [SOLVED at the end, no delimiter][1] - [solved but still puzzled][2] - [SOLVED at the beginning, no delimiter][3] - [Actual sentence could make sense if you don't look at the upper case][4] - [solved myself][5] - [commas can be used for anything][6] - [SOVLED and not SOLVED][7] - [What about a C++ class called Solved?][8] **False positives**: - [Typo and a separator, but actually just a class name][9] - [solved after a comma and before a question mark][10] - [not solved !][11] In summary, I think the automatic system should be **very basic** otherwise this will end of flagging too much stuff, you'd need to do some kind of AI to have a reasonable algorithm and I don't think it's worth the effort. People will do a much better job at flagging those. But overall that's a pretty minor issue if you look at the number of "*solved*" posts, and a lot of headache for not that much impact. [1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1525400/multiple-join-or-subquery-query-optimization-solved [2]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2585712/python-memory-leak-solved-but-still-puzzled [3]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4749166/solved-sending-variable-to-function-to-execute-odbc-select [4]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6352075/java-recursive-distance-math-problem-solved [5]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7347077/ext-store-is-not-loading-data-correctly-edit-solved-myself [6]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1126863/resolving-sub-domain-in-apache-ignore-solved [7]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9802113/sovled-regex-if-is-not-found-at-the-end-then-replace-everything [8]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2630967/solvedmessagequeue-beginreceive-null-ref-error-c-sharp [9]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8218906/java-can-not-cast-from-string-to-integer-sovled [10]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8134694/very-specific-query-it-can-be-solved [11]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6552691/last-item-click-null-pointer-excepction-not-solved