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.

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.
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Exactly this is my point of view. Some times I might need more than the average time to answer a question, so I find it more interesting to spend time in a hard thinking question than a question that has already 4-5 answers under 5 minutes of posting the question.

Well this is just a suggestion, and I can understand why people do not want to spend time to some questions if they take more than 10 minutes to answer. So I have different target to answer these questions instead of the sort ones.

Any way this is just a suggestion, maybe it will get implemented maybe not.

Thank you for your time and effort answering my question.

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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.)

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!

/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.”

Hello Anonymous,

Do not get me wrong, when I say questions passed unanswered I might also mean question that might get a reply after 24 or 48 hours.

I am sure that you have felt the pressure and the need when you are trying to complete a project or a task and you have gotten stack and you are trying to understand why, so you are hopping that an expert can assist you or help you with. In this kind of cases every hour matters.

But apart from that rear cases, if a question remains unanswered for more than 5-10 hours the user which constantly be checking for a possible reply, he might get disappointed or discouraged that his question can not get an answer. In this cases also question will be lost among the other questions in the list and it will pass unnoticed.

Maybe I sound a bit extreme but I can provide you with an example, one of my questions (e.g. RRD::Simple .eps Format). I asked the question on Apr 06, 2014 at 14:00 GMT, I was working on it constantly. I got only one reply at Apr 06, 2014 at 19:25 GMT. Unfortunately the reply to my question was not covered by the suggestion it did not work. I never got any other replies on that question. It is dead since then, of course at the end after experimenting with other modules also I got my answer where I post the solution on Apr 11, 2014 at 09:01. But I mean if I was not so stubborn enough to try again and again other alternatives I would have not found a possible solution.

I am not accusing or expecting people spend a great amount of time trying to solve all questions. But I mean I have seen it happening a couple of times so I was hopping that might be an option to choose and see the non answered questions. :D

Well again as I said this is only just a suggestion, maybe it will get implemented or not, but still forum remains the best discussion forum in Perl that I have found. I hope every new user gets the same feeling.

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