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Questions tagged [unanswered-questions]

Unanswered questions are those questions which have no up-voted answers.

10 votes
3 answers
1k views

Decade Old Unanswered Questions

Is there a reason to keep these decade old questions with no activity on them up? What is there to gain from the questions being up when in many cases the technology being discussed is no longer used ...
Joel A. V.'s user avatar
11 votes
1 answer
250 views

Unanswered questions on the rise?

I was wondering whether the number of unanswered questions on Stack Overflow has increased over the past years. Is there a graph I can see showing the percentage of unanswered questions on the y-axis ...
Joselin Jocklingson's user avatar
18 votes
1 answer
753 views

How could I have improved this post?

I have a question about my Stack Overflow post: How does cloudflare detect that I am a bot even though I have provided the cf_clearance cookie? I posted it two days ago, it has 30 views with no votes ...
Anm's user avatar
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-12 votes
1 answer
197 views

How should we react with users who ask questions without any responsiveness or feedback however they have some other activities on SO? [duplicate]

This question is relatively similar to some other questions: 1, 2, and 3. I have faced to some issues on SO which are asked, but their authors leave no feedback at all (up/down-vote, accept or comment)...
Ali_Sh's user avatar
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14 votes
1 answer
443 views

What should I do if there is a question already made for my problem but has never been answered?

If I have a question, which already exists in Stack Overflow, but this older question has never been answered (meaning answered with a solution that works, it might have some answers that give some ...
S. Dre's user avatar
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6 votes
0 answers
132 views

Locked questions (including merge stubs) are still showing up in the "unanswered" list

If you search for a given tag; say "JavaScript" in this case and look for "unanswered" to attempt to answer them you cannot if they are "merged" for example this question ...
Mark Schultheiss's user avatar
1 vote
0 answers
117 views

A long time ago I asked a question that was not answered. Should I close it?

I have a question about my Stack Overflow post: How can I keep the tooltip active on apexcharts?
Ramsés Martínez Ortiz's user avatar
-18 votes
1 answer
345 views

Is there a reason my questions do not get answered on Stack Overflow? [closed]

I often come here for help on issues, and I occasionally ask my own questions (especially with SSRS). Have I upset the smart people and been blacklisted on this site or do I just have the most ...
user3691608's user avatar
6 votes
0 answers
64 views

Change definition of unanswered questions answered by excluding those answered by self

When I go to the unanswered page of a tag, for example here my usual intent is to see if i can act so that it no longer is unanswered. Outside of the unfortunate cases where i can only comment or flag,...
Dennis Jaheruddin's user avatar
10 votes
0 answers
322 views

Is growth in Python questions now spurting?

I've been looking at a few metrics lately to see how the site is running. Instead of new sign-up's, flags and voting, a more balanced metric in my view 'are questions being answered'. Remember there ...
Jeremy Thompson's user avatar
2 votes
0 answers
51 views

Duplicated Unanswered Questions page, with missing features on one

On the homepage, upon scrolling right to the bottom, you get presented these links: Clicking on "complete list of questions" takes you to the /questions page. Weirdly though, clicking on &...
Hack5's user avatar
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-13 votes
2 answers
161 views

How to get your question answered if it is not bountied

I asked this question about invalid stripe parameters which for me is really important, and I desperately need to solve it, to complete the project. Although it got 30+ views, there was no answer to ...
Jack's user avatar
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13 votes
1 answer
449 views

Is there a plot of the proportion of unanswered questions over time?

Number of questions: 18,944,038. Number of unanswered questions: 5,620,789. The proportion of unanswered questions is currently 5620789 / 18944038 = 26.79%. Question: Is there a plot of the ...
Rebecca J. Stones's user avatar
4 votes
1 answer
91 views

How do I find all my unanswered questions in all my Stack Exchange accounts?

I asked several questions on different accounts that have never been answered. How can I find all these questions?
Yukulélé's user avatar
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1 vote
1 answer
145 views

Is it good to delete an unresolvable question? [duplicate]

Sometimes I asked some questions without actually any answers. For example, a question: How do I batch rename variables with their suggested names in ReSharper? This question, in fact, is ...
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