G'day cormanaz,

There are very few nodes that don't receive a reply and, I suspect, the majority of those don't need one: accidental duplicates, intentional spam, and the like. These may, of course, be in need of consideration. I don't have access to the numbers, but I'd guess the number of genuine posts that go unanswered is very small.

Many posts have replies that don't address the question but rather something that needs fixing: markup problems, missing content, and so on. Once fixed, these may be questions you can answer but they won't be identified by the suggested filter.

Many replies don't address the entirety of the question: perhaps you can fill in the missing parts. In other cases, you may have additional information, a better answer, a caveat you'd like to share, a correction to a response, and so on. Again, the filter won't highlight any of these posts.

I don't think the filter you suggest would be something I'd personally use; however, I acknowledge that others may find it useful. Having said that, why limit it to SoPW posts with zero replies. Filtering nodes by other criteria is already a function of Super Search: perhaps just adding a "with <= N replies" option would do what you want (while providing the additional, existing options of searching by sections, dates, and so on).

— Ken

In reply to Re: Unanswered Nodes by kcott
in thread Unanswered Nodes by cormanaz

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