Perhaps related to the question of [improving answered question statistics][1], what does one do about a question that doesn't have an answer? I.e. it isn't possible within SharePoint?

Example - I asked a question about [formatting a DateTime column as a date only in the BCS external entity picker][2]. I've received some useful information - but nothing that actually answers my question. I'm now fairly convinced that there is no elegant solution for this.

It's a fair question, so I'm loathe to just delete it. Will closing it 'answer' it, and is that an appropriate action?

(I don't like leaving it hanging)


  [1]: https://sharepoint.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/261/how-can-we-improve-our-answered-site-statistics
  [2]: http://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/12322/date-only-format-with-bcs