Questions tagged [unanswered-questions]
about unanswered and abandoned questions
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What to do with abandoned questions?
It's inevitable that people will come to this site, ask a low quality question, and not return to follow up on comments requesting additional information.
What should be done with these examples? ...
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How can we improve the site's answered rate?
According to this our answered rate (percentage of questions with an upvoted answer) is now 76%. We took a big hit with the number of new questions for 12.04/12.10 and the difficulty of being able to ...
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Should we consider unanswered questions a problem yet?
In the fashion of the discussion on meta.SO about unanswered questions on Stack Overflow
Currently, out of 120,000 odd questions, only about 70% of them are considered answered. But it wasn't this ...
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Unanswered questions - what to do?
Ask Ubuntu currently has the lowest Percent Answered of any Stack Exchange site.
What do you think about this, and what should be done about it?
Part of the problem is the attitude of questions asked, ...
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Closing abandoned questions is harder than it should be.
I've been doing a bunch of digging around to help solve our accept rate problem. It's probably a multifaceted problem so I thought I'd tackle this one for now. According to meta, our policy is to vote ...
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Changes to how we close abandoned questions
This is a heads up for people who regularly flag things as abandoned:
The mods are stepping back
We're not actually going anywhere and we'll still be dealing with most of the flags that come in but we ...
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Me-too post? Or partial answer?
Where do we draw the line between "I'm having the same problem, too" posts and partial answers?
This answer and its comments are what have motivated me to ask this. But I'm hoping for a ...
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What to do with answers posted as comments?
With questions like this (or this), the OP or someone else gives an answer but it's in the form of a comment, so the question is still marked "unanswered" even though it has been answered.
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Why is there a staggering amount of unanswered microphone-related questions using ubuntu 20.04?
Since Ubuntu's 20.04 official release, I've seen more and more questions related to microphone not being detected, white noise, headsets with only speakers working and etc, especially in the first few ...
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Unanswered questions, what do we do?
Hi. I'm still very new to Askubuntu, and have a question about unanswered questions.
When one goes unanswered for a certain amount of time, what are our options to get the question noticed again?
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Do we need a canonical partition recovery question? How shall we make it?
We have many questions about how to recover a whole partition. Typically it's an NTFS partition, destroyed by telling Ubiquity to install Ubuntu using the entire disk instead of alongside other ...
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Why are most questions in unanswered answered?
I just had a look at https://askubuntu.com/unanswered and I saw that most of the questions were answered. Not recently either. Some of them were answered two months ago. Why is this?
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Best practise for finding questions to answer
tl;dr: What is your (best) way to find question you can answer on AskUbuntu?
I usually log in to AU and surf through the list of new questions. If some "interesting" question catches my eye, I open ...
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What to do with the "Will Ubuntu run in X model?" questions?
This drives me nuts. The only solution to these questions is "test it!" but I'm not in the mood to write for each of this questions "The only way you know for sure is to test it with a live CD." There ...
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What to do with questions whose OP hasn't visited the site for a long time?
On viewing unanswered questions I came across this question. While there was nothing wrong with the question, it is very old and the OP hasn't visited the site for a long time. Hence, any answers/...
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Review Old Questions?
How do we deal with really old questions that don't have an accepted answer or no answer at all? I know that the 'Community User' bumps them once in a while, but is that enough? Our answered ratio ...
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What is the appropriate way to deal with "Can I do X" questions?
I don't know how better to phrase this, so here are a few examples:
Ubuntu Derivate with Rolling Release? Possible?
Kiosk that is able to transfer videos to a thumb drive
Is there any way a can buy ...
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Why are so many answers posted as comments? [duplicate]
Every morning I click on the unanswered link and every morning I see many of questions answered in the comments section. When this happens, person who asked the question cannot mark it as answered, it ...
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How about page numbers on the top of pages as well?
I was looking through the unanswered questions in Ask Ubuntu and after reading through some I was at the top of the page. In order to go to the page before or after it, I had to scroll down to the ...
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What to do with obsolete question?
I asked a question some time earlier. I didn't get any answers, but by now I found out that the question itself is obsolete, because the problem isn't a Ubuntu config error, but rather a hardware ...
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Can I migrate some questions of mine from Superuser to here?
I need to know if some questions of mine could be migrated here, if they are appropriate for this site and if by doing so I will get a chance to have them answered.
I write here after being advised ...
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Suggestions to limit the large amount of unanswered questions?
After searching http://askubuntu.com I was looking through all the unanswered questions and its frustrating trawling through 607 unanswered questions at 15 per page (approx 9,105) and it appears that ...
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New battle plan for the questions that require god-like powers to figure out user problem: Close everything on sight!
TL;DR: Please, decide a policy, adhere to it and enforce it.
The main problem here is the lack of cohesion about how to deal with the questions. For that I rant about the following:
Yeah, guys, we ...
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Am I just asking wrong?
I've asked 5 questions since may and got no answers at all. I've been as specific as possible included as many details as possible and generally tried to make my question answerable.
So I can only ...
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Does favoriting questions help to get an answer?
I've read What if I don’t get a good answer? and in meta What is the purpose of favoriting questions?.
Does favoriting (clicking the star) highlight my question to others?
Is there a way to do that?
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Another bit on abandoned questions, but specifically good ones with good answers
Question on a rarer type of abandoned question:
Is there a way for 'Community' to take ownership of these questions so an answer can be accepted and the data can be maintained? Is it simpler to ...
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Set a Watch for an interesting question
Sometimes I see an interesting question which has no answer yet. Later on it disappears in the timeline and I have to search for it to see if someone wrote a comment or an answer to it.
Is there a ...
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What to do with questions from here that have already been answered in another SE site?
Frequently, I see unanswered questions from this site that has been previously asked in another SE site (mostly SO) and this one has an answer that have worked for the OP.
Should I copy and paste the ...
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How to transfer a question through Stack Exchange Communities
I've just earned a badge in this popular question I wrote 15 months ago in SuperUser Community. And it attracted me because, even after all this time and 1000 views, it stills not-answered. Thus I got ...
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Ping people via email to get their attention
Abandoned threads are toxic. They take up space, people's time and they hurt our answer ratio.
As a moderator now, I have the power to directly email somebody about their conduct on the site but not ...
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BUG : Unanswered questions?
Hello Today I was browsing through all the questions...
I was seeing and almost all the questions were answered. So I selected the "unanswered category" of questions.
By default, sort by ...
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What to do if your question on AskUbuntu does not get answered?
I really need the answer, can I post my question again?
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Time Frame of Abandoned/Old Questions
I have checked the following questions:
What to do with abandoned questions?
How should we define "Abandoned" as a close reason?
Changes to how we close abandoned questions
Closing ...
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When to submit a question as an Ubuntu bug?
I have a problem with my computer (a reproducible crash), and posted a question here on AskUbuntu. I hoped that this is a known situation with a known workaround, or that somebody can spot what I did ...
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Why does the accept rate calculation include unanswered questions ?
I am used to asking many questions on Ask Ubuntu, but a few of them remain unanswered. Maybe they are too hard to answer or too technical. But this is not the point.
My accept rate is therefore lower ...
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How to make questions noticeable without bounty?
I have asked 2 questions in askubuntu. I beleive both are genuine enough and are binding to the 'rules' of askubuntu. But the questions are barely getting noticed. I even got the tumbleweed badge for ...
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Why does the Unanswered button take me to a list of questions with answers?
Why does the Unanswered button take me to a list of questions with answers?
Shouldn't I got to a list of questions with no answers, perhaps with the oldest one first?
If the are questions whose ...
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How to get more viewer in an unanswered own question for a new user? [duplicate]
As a new user of Ubuntu I am facing a lot of problem but getting help from the StackExchange's biggest community and learning something new and also sharing my experience. I have an unanswered ...
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Questions with 0 answers not highlighted any more :-(
I used to easily see the questions which have not yet got any answer as they were displayed in a red circle until recently.
Now it's very hard to easily spot them, and I don't think the argument "too ...
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What am i supposed to do with a question of mine if it's no longer valid?
I asked this question some time ago . After today's reinstallation of ubuntu I no longer face this problem. What am i supposed to do with the question now?
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How do I go about asking a question already asked but unanswered?
I recently asked this question What exactly is an "Ubuntu App", as made with the Ubuntu SDK? but to date it has no answers or comments and very few views.
It seems to me to be a reasonable ...
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Why I cannot answer some questions in askubuntu.com/unanswered (no answer-field)? [duplicate]
I just joined Ask Ubuntu and wanted to answer one question at https://askubuntu.com/unanswered but there is no answer field to enter my answer. Why?
I have 1 reputation and I tried to contribute to ...
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"Unanswered" questions tab shows answered questions
Why does the "Unanswered" tab in the main orange bar produce a result different than "Unanswered" in the "Questions" sub-tab?
Is there a way to make this less ambiguous?
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What is a good way to encourage askers to accept an answer?
Every so often I stumble upon an excellent answer to a problem only to find that, while it may have a high score, the answer has yet to be accepted. Case in point:
This happens with many "drive-...
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How to find out newest set of (25 or 50) questions with no answers
As on date there is 420+ questions with no-answers and I am unable to find a way to see answers with no questions for the past one month or newest set of 25 or 50 questions with no answers.
Is ...
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Any ideas on why this question didn't get any responses
I asked this 17 days ago (although I revised the title later).
I don't expect miracles (although sometimes I get them ;) ), but I am surprised at getting nothing.
Is there something I can do/...
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Which time period is deemed appropriate to delete an unanswered question from a network site in order to repost it on another site?
I made the mistake of asking a question on StackOverflow. The problem with it is that questions asked there are likely to end up at the bottom of the stack in no time due to the high number of old ...
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Why do my questions get no answers or comments?
How to make Lubuntu's Temperature Monitor applet report the real temperatures inside my PC instead of always "thermal_zone0: 40°C"?
How to unbind the Super or Logo key so it may be ...
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Should bounties expire? How can I promote my bountied question even more?
Why are bounties time bound? Clearly the site doesn't get enough traffic to ensure that in 7 days the appropriate users (who specialize in the domain of the question) would have stopped by Ask Ubuntu ...
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How can I make people see my question?
I asked a question a while ago and got one answer, but I tried what it said to do and it didn't work. I haven't gotten any more answers. How can I make people see my question? Is there a way to ...
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