What are the thoughts about reposting questions that go unanswered? Occasionally a post or problem goes unanswered and I was wondering about the appropriateness of reposting such a question.

I'm not talking about questions like "I need a script that has form to edit my database and get me an A+.", but rather posts that are somewhat well thought out and have some merit. From my own experience, questions go unanswered for a variety of reasons, some having nothing to do with the quality of the message. For instance, many monks aren't around on the weekend (sometimes myself included) and a lot of worthy posts can slip under the radar by Monday. Occasionally I hit a real show stopper and I find the Monastary a huge help. But on occasion, a post goes seemingly unnoticed. Now it could very well be the quality of my post, or disinterest from the majority of Perl programmers towards the specific problem domain, but on occasion, it has seemed to be timing as well.

What's the consensus?

-Lee

"To be civilized is to deny one's nature."

In reply to Reposting Questions? by shotgunefx

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