in reply to Finding posts with zero replies.

To expand on PodMaster's somewhat cryptic post, check out this page to show today's posts. It does indeed show the number of replies, even though it's agreed that number of replies doesn't necessarily suggest that the question has been fully answered.

Here's how I looked: I search for PTAV in the Search field above, got nothing, started a Super Search with PTAV, and while that was running also googled for PTAV. The Google search finished first, and one of the results was a directory path below tinymicros.com (Sorry, not .net) -- kind of a cousin site to Perl Monks. Clicking on that and drilling down to today's date gave me the link you see at the top of this reply.

So, the short answer (yeah, at the end of my post) is that this functionality has already been coded off-site, hence it will not likely make its way into Perl Monks.

Alex / talexb / Toronto

"Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds

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Re^2: Finding posts with zero replies.
by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Aug 30, 2004 at 18:42 UTC
    talexb,
    The functionality being requested hasn't been coded locally or offsite. As I noted in my reply, you get no filtering capability with either alternative - only visual cues. Now providing a complete list is only marginally better. What would be optimal would be to add a feature to Super Search that specified the number of replies:
    • Radio box to select either gt, lt, eq
    • Text box to specify the number of replies
    Now, not being a devil, I doubt this is very feasible as I don't think nodes track number of children. I really like the idea and came up with something I think is better, but still not optimal.

    Cheers - L~R

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      Hmm, well the original question asked about 'finding posts with zero replies', and it seems to me (for example, this post) that it's working as advertised.

      Alex / talexb / Toronto

      "Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds

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        talexb,
        The finding part in the title was a lead in, the body explained the request better. S/he asked to search and in another node mentioned filtering and/or sorting. I think the intent is obvious - a list of SoPW nodes that have 0 replies. Navigating day by day and then checking each one to see the number next to it falls short of the mark.

        Cheers - L~R

        Small update to remove question regarding finding vs searching
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