"Unanswered" Questions

[LCM]

As a note: 17:30 CET - 4,825 questions, 1,069 unanswered!?!

There are so many answered questions still "open" / unticked 😞

When I have a "problem" before asking I'm (mostly) looking through existing ones! If I have now more then 1,000 unanswered question, how will I be sure, the answer(s) were correct? (if you go through there are unanswered questions which are already correctly answered, but still open)

There should be a timer "punishing" the asking person not responding or ticking their own question!

• I ask something
• There are some answers
• I don't tick or add comments or whatever after 2 weeks, I'm loosing points (or buying beer for the others 😉 )

If that was the case, another button is needed, which said: answer is there but all no good so far / doesn't work

The quality is getting better and double questions could be avoided.

[woodcock]

I think that this is part of what @ppablo_splunk has been hired to do. He seems to be doing a GREAT job of it, too. I even noticed that he updated a question that I had correctly answered where the asker had answered his own question with "That did it, thanks" and then accepted his answer! Then @ppablo_splunk came along and converted this joker's answer to a comment under my answer and then accepted my answer. Bravo! Keep up the good work!

Maybe he will update this question and accept my answer!

[jkat54]

I'll second the appreciation for @ppablo_splunk!!! Many thanks to that guy!

[jkat54]

And now that I know how to tag him... ;-). Thanks to @woodcock. Ppablo is about to get more of my business!!!

[sideview · Accepted solution]

Although you havent really asked a question, i do have a kind of answer.

The asker 'accepting' one of the answers is indeed a way for a question to get out of the 'unanswered' category, but another way is for anyone to upvote one of the answers. As soon as an answer has a couple upvotes the community has validated that answer a bit.

This used to bother me too and after doing whatever I did on answers I used to go through and read dozens of unanswered questions and unvoted answers just to vote on them so I didnt have to see them next time I read through the 'unanswered' queue.

I agree things seem to have deteriorated a bit. We held the number steady in the low hundreds for a long time but now it's just exploding.

[LCM]

Thanks nick . . .

[sideview]

Not sure about SO in general, but answers.splunk.com does. But taking it off the unanswered page doesnt mean it wont get further updates -- people will still see it when it turns up in search results, or when they page through the 'questions' tab.

[Ayn]

Does SO work that way? If someone upvotes an answer the question stops being marked as unanswered and updated by community all the time?