Hi,
I think that the color system chosen (light green and dark green) is not helping identifying which questions have an accepted answer and which ones only have an answer, that still don't solve the question. A lot of them remain unsolved because the light green color is associated with correct or done.
I think most questions are actually solved. Only that the original posters don't understand that they are supposed to accept the answer and what that accepted answer actually means.
It is possible that having a more visible color scheme would help more people realize that they can accept questions, but it could also be more distracting when viewing the list of questions.
There are already lots of colors used to distinguish between the different sorts of posts. Keeping all questions in green seems a good idea. Is it not the yellow digit that identifies a question with an accepted answer?
I don't know what the volume of questions is these days, but I think it is the job of moderators to encourage people to accept the answers. This can easily create a snowball effect where normal users are also encouraging others to do the same.
EDIT: The square area color should be used for only one thing: distinguishing among the different post types. Then, only the yellow digits should be used to indicated a question with an accepted answer. Using the square area for more than one meaning is inevitably confusing.
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I agree. I have encouraged other users in the past to accept an answer when they have commented that the answer worked. It makes things work much better when this is followed. Nothing worse than clicking on a question with answers when you are looking for a solution to the same thing and there is zero feedback as to whether any of the provided solutions worked.
Yellow is denoting a forum post rather than a question. Light green means the question got a response. Dark green that the answer was accepted by the question owner.
It is both, a little bit darker green and yellow font for the digit in the answer box.
Then only the yellow digits should be kept. The dark tone seems too close to another yet darker tone that identifies, I guess, another type of post.
That is not what I meant. I said the "yellow digits" inside the square box :)
This thread is a good indication that the color scheme might be too complicated.