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How can we (and should we) help new users on pushing unanswered posts?
What about adding an "I'm having that problem too" button? The button could disappear as soon as an answer is accepted. In the meantime, if a question has enough "I'm having that problem" votes (more ...
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Search questions without comments
You can only link the two databases containing posts and comments using the SEDE. The following query lists questions on the main site, sorted by their last activity date (oldest to newest) with these ...
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Make old question answered
The list of unanswered questions are those "with no upvoted or accepted answers":
There are a number of ways this is dealt with:
The community occasionally hosts an "Answer the ...
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How can we (and should we) help new users on pushing unanswered posts?
This is a noble initiative, but it is not sustainable since reputation is an earned attribute and it's not in everyone to just doll it out at the drop of a new user. Of course, some folks do, but the ...
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Upcoming event "Answer the unanswered"
There was a time when active community members felt the number of unanswered questions was growing too rapidly. Perhaps the community seemed more inclined to focus on a steady stream of new, ...
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View unanswered questions with most recent first
There is a special "unanswered" list which can be sorted by date: https://tex.stackexchange.com/unanswered/tagged/?tab=newest
For everybody who is like me hiding the left hand sidebar, this ...
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Should a question that is answered in a comment be voted on to be closed?
There are different types of questions answered in comments.
The perhaps most common ones are those where the issue is a package or distribution version problem or a simple input error (mistyped or ...
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