Here is my recipe for dealing with the whole "unanswered" thing:

• I adopted a tag (or more like a set of them) that are more or like what I clean up going from most upvoted and newer questions to far back.
• I go sometimes to a random page of the Unanswered -> no answers list (ie http://askubuntu.com/unanswered/tagged/?page=20&tab=noanswers) and check up what's there, or just select a tag, and start answering.
• The normal flagging when I'm doing this.
• I struggle that most of questions have at least a comment whenever they arrive to the newest page, so new unanswered don't pile up (but I won't do this if I'm busy on other tasks).

You could take some of my behavior, propose some, or just continue what your are doing ;). Although some pre-question quality insurances is always welcomed, since it's tiring having to comment asking for more information about the same things: lspci, lsusb, GRUB-UEFI configuration (the comments vary somewhat, but still is almost the same information that we need), etc.

Here is my recipe for dealing with the whole "unanswered" thing:

• I adopted a tag (or more like a set of them) that are more or like what I clean up going from most upvoted and newer questions to far back.
• I go sometimes to a random page of the Unanswered -> no answers list (ie https://askubuntu.com/unanswered/tagged/?page=20&tab=noanswers) and check up what's there, or just select a tag, and start answering.
• The normal flagging when I'm doing this.
• I struggle that most of questions have at least a comment whenever they arrive to the newest page, so new unanswered don't pile up (but I won't do this if I'm busy on other tasks).

You could take some of my behavior, propose some, or just continue what your are doing ;). Although some pre-question quality insurances is always welcomed, since it's tiring having to comment asking for more information about the same things: lspci, lsusb, GRUB-UEFI configuration (the comments vary somewhat, but still is almost the same information that we need), etc.