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Re: Is there an option to see the non answered questions?
by aaron_baugher (Curate) on Jun 01, 2015 at 22:58 UTC
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I don't think questions go unanswered very often, if at all. If a question is understandable, it quickly gets multiple answers -- or if no one knows the answer, it produces a discussion. If a question is too unclear or poorly written to answer, people reply by asking for more info and encouraging the poster to follow the guidelines.
So I think the only time a question doesn't get an answer is when it's so poorly written that no one can answer it, and the original poster is unable or unwilling to improve it. And even in those cases, it will get replies from users trying to help the OP improve his question, so there's no automatic way to identify those.
In short, I don't think there's a way to do what you want to do; and even if you could, it wouldn't provide you with anything useful.
Aaron B.
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Hello aaron_baugher,
You are absolutely right about that.
But, sometimes not often but some times I see unanswered questions for a few hours. This can happen if the module that the user is using is not commonly used or the question is not a programming question but more like a point that the user got stack and needs a lot of time for a monk to spend on the question search online and come up with an answer.
Unfortunately some times this can happen when people come and ask a question something like "I do not how to use this module please provide an example that I want to do this and that".
Of course this kind of questions they do not get answers, not straight away at least but I have found my self answering a couple of times this kind of questions.
The reason is that I am still learning and I am trying to expand my knowledge/way of thinking with any possible minor or major task. I am not here to gain experience points or reputation, I am here to try to answer questions that would require a bit of online searching and experimentation.
I mean, I know that people have been spending years and years with Perl so they know more than what I will learn ever, but a more difficult question is always a more "challenging" question = to more fun answering this question.
I am only a beginner, two years ago I started learning about programming so I am more interesting in learning how to think and approach more complicated problems and solve them more efficiently.
Again thank you for your time and effort reading and replying my question.
Seeking for Perl wisdom...on the process of learning...not there...yet!
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You may be right; there may be more unanswered questions here than I think. It's an interesting idea, anyway, on how to locate them.
The level of knowledge here, and the willingness of the top experts (well above my level) to quickly research things for the sake of helping others, is so high that I think any question they've been unable to answer would be well beyond the ability of a beginner. But there's certainly nothing wrong with trying, and who knows what you might learn in the effort.
Aaron B.
Available for small or large Perl jobs and *nix system administration; see my home node.
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Intuitively, I would tend to agree ... but, then again, I don’t know.
Perhaps some of the gods could query the underlying database to determine how often a posting slips by with absolutely no responses at all. If that actually seems to be a significant ratio, then perhaps a separate discussion thread should be opened as to what should be done about it.
“Yes, if someone visits here, only to come away with the indelible impression that “nobody gives a damn about his/her post,” then that would, indeed, be a very damning black-eye for the site. But a simple SELECT COUNT(*) WHERE... query, issued by the gods, could answer that question conclusively for all of us, in a way that nothing else could.
If this is a problem, then I feel strongly that we should address it. But, let us not rely on intuition when SQL can provide data. (P.S.: gods, we await thee.)
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Hello sundialsvc4,
To be 100% honest, I do not think so that a question slips not answered. My guess would be 0%. From my point of view, there are people who maintaining this website and do not answer questions they have been answered more than 48 hours, or if the question has been pushed on the 2nd, 3rd page so not so many people will spend time on it.
In these rear cases, they will interfere quietly and provide an answer to the problem. I can verify that based on personal experience (I have posted or keep track of some not so straight forward answered questions).
So my question would be if there is an option for simple and so high level users like me to find and pick up questions that have not been answered yet.
Usually what I do is browsing through the pages 2nd, 3rd maybe 4th page to trying to find an answered questions, but this is something that I like to do.
Any way this is only my point of view and this is what I prefer to do.
Thank you for your time and effort reading and replying to my question.
Seeking for Perl wisdom...on the process of learning...not there...yet!
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/me nods ...
“Yes, I tend to agree.” In all my ever-so-many years here, I frankly can’t recall when a question “completely slipped by, unanswered.” (In fact, I have generally observed that “PerlMonks is a code-writing service,” ... and by-the-by I do not feel that this is a bad thing.)
“Hence, let us do a Query.” Let the gods find out, definitively, whether we actually have a problem here. If we do, then (as I said ...) I feel quite-strongly that we should promptly implement code to address it. But, I also feel that we need to base our next move (if any) upon readily-obtainable “objective data.”
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Re: Is there an option to see the non answered questions?
by FreeBeerReekingMonk (Deacon) on Jun 01, 2015 at 22:35 UTC
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you can use the link Recently Active Threads, in the questions, if the question is all by its own, it does not have replies...
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Hello FreeBeerReekingMonk,
Thank you for your time and effort replying to my question. To be honest I was playing around with the website yesterday and I picked this up also. Maybe I will use it in this way.
Again thanks for the tip.
Seeking for Perl wisdom...on the process of learning...not there...yet!
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Re: Is there an option to see the non answered questions?
by GotToBTru (Prior) on Jun 01, 2015 at 22:09 UTC
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Hello GotToBTru,
I would define unanswered as a question that it stayed there for more than 24 hours without been answered. Either because it is too "difficult" and by difficult I mean the answer is not straight forward. Some times I pick up questions that mention modules that I have never heard of or ways to use Perl that I would not even imagine.
I know that eventually all questions will get answered, because almost every author that has written a CPAN module will probably looking at this site also.
But I know that when someone has spend a lot of time trying so hard to find a solution to a complicated problem and at the end he can not figure it out no matter what. These questions is not something like use this hash, or this module in this way and it is done, it is more complicated.
So I was wondering if the site had a special option to choose/view faster questions that have not got a reply more than "k" hours.
Again thank you for your time and effort reading and replying to my question.
Seeking for Perl wisdom...on the process of learning...not there...yet!
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I don't believe there is a way to get this site to provide you with such a list, but you could certainly inspect the currently displayed topics yourself. This would involve looking at the XML. I would say based on my observation that very few posts get no responses here, but I am sure it does happen. Taking this discussion here as an example, you did get a response .. but what I typed was far from an answer!
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