I think sfink may be on to something. His idea could kill two birds with one stone (in theory). One is the idea of having an easy way to find un-replied-to questions, which is the subject of at least two threads lately. The other idea is being able to know if a question someone else asked has been answered; useful if you want to know the answer, too. Now, I know I could do this already by checking the new nodes every day (which I do), but having it automatic would be cool.

Of course just because something's cool doesn't mean it's worth the work to implement. I don't know how hard these ideas would be to implement.

I haven't tried Limbic~Region's code yet, he says it generates a list of all root SoPW nodes with no replies. If it works, that might satisfy the first idea OK.

Now I'm just thinking as I'm typing here, and I'm wondering: Can the average monk write some code to satisfy the second idea? L~R wrote the code above, and I've run across a bunch of things monks have apparently done on their own to get just the right data they want (stats and such).

So, is it possible for the average monk to write code that interacts with the site's data? If so, what kinds of things are possible? How hard is it? (I know, it depends on my skills ;)

Anyway, maybe the answer for both these ideas is "non-official" code that a monk could provide a link to.

TheEnigma