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about unanswered and abandoned questions

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What takes so long to respond?

Your question assumes there are only two reasons a question is unanswered: It's off-topic and the moderators are being lazy. We hate you and won't answer out of spite. I can't speak for everybody …
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Questions that have been asnwered, but the OP no longer has an account so can't accept an an...

The voting system already does this. The most popular answer floats to the top. Whether or not it has been accepted really makes very little difference to the person who finds the answer via a search …
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What to do with the "Will Ubuntu run in X model?" questions?

It's a legitimate problem that current and prospective Ubuntu users have. For that one reason, it's not something we can simply write off as "Oh god, that's really annoying". Of course if you have a l …
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"Unanswered" questions tab shows answered questions

A question isn't answered until it has at least one answer with a score of at least +1.
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Should we consider unanswered questions a problem yet?

When people mention cleanup and our "answer rate", they're talking about a historical number. A number that I frankly feel isn't that important. It's a stat that we can manipulate if we close a big bu …
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What to do with questions from here that have already been answered in another SE site?

Quote it, link to it and give original credit as far as you can... Just as you would to any resource. Note that if you're copying from an SE site, you must do this as part of the license. If you add …
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Unanswered questions, what do we do?

The best way to attract a lot of attention to a question is setting a bounty. After 48 hours you're allowed to put up some of your own reputation as a reward for somebody who answers the question. Obv …
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