Timeline for Difficulty trying to answer old unanswered questions
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| Oct 17, 2014 at 18:31 | answer | added | Tetsujin | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 7:23 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/super_user/status/521924160071553025 | ||
| Oct 14, 2014 at 3:33 | comment | added | Robotnik | @fixer1234 - yeah? That shouldn't matter, the answer might still be useful to other people. | |
| Oct 13, 2014 at 23:19 | comment | added | fixer1234 | And you saw the comment that he wasn't using it anymore? | |
| Oct 13, 2014 at 23:10 | comment | added | Robotnik | I will say that it does happen - I just answered this question after tag-diving, which sat unanswered for 5 years | |
| Oct 13, 2014 at 8:06 | vote | accept | fixer1234 | ||
| Oct 13, 2014 at 8:00 | answer | added | fixer1234 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 10, 2014 at 7:04 | comment | added | tripleee | Is a significant portion of these questions effectively duplicates of good, answered questions? At least on SO that seems to be a factor -- improving duplicate handling one way or another would address that, but I'm not sure if it fits here. | |
| Oct 6, 2014 at 9:51 | answer | added | Oliver Salzburg | timeline score: 11 | |
| Oct 6, 2014 at 0:26 | comment | added | fixer1234 | I came across a number of posts like that. It seems to have come up every few years. In the two years since that post, the count has gone from 13,000 to 35,000. It would be useful even to have user controllable filters to get the pool of questions to wade through to a more manageable size. | |
| Oct 4, 2014 at 23:42 | comment | added | Raystafarian | Just focus on your preferred tags and wade through them that way? I often browse unanswered excel questions, I remember which ones have no registered author and which ones aren't answerable, so my list stays limited. | |
| Oct 4, 2014 at 14:56 | comment | added | fixer1234 | Been there, done that. That's what prompted the post. Virtually all of the questions are there because they are within the policy for not being deleted yet and I'm not talking about deleting any or changing the policy. I'm talking about creating a pool of questions within the unanswered questions that have been screened by more rigorous guidelines so that a much higher percentage in that pool are good candidates. This can be done by automated means to exclude the least likely questions, via readers tagging questions for exclusion, or via readers tagging for inclusion. | |
| Oct 4, 2014 at 14:33 | comment | added | slhck | Well, I'd start with the unanswered list, which is sorted by votes. If there's anything that is abandoned, already answered, or outdated, we need people to flag it so we can delete it. This can't be automated… | |
| Oct 4, 2014 at 14:31 | comment | added | fixer1234 | Right. The unanswered question pool reflects this policy. I'm not talking about changing the policy, I'm referring to a method to more easily find good candidates in a big sea of questions, most of which will never get answered. | |
| Oct 4, 2014 at 9:59 | comment | added | slhck | Old questions with low score and a low view count will automatically be deleted, in case you didn't know. I can't give you any number though. | |
| Oct 4, 2014 at 9:39 | history | asked | fixer1234 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |