Does anybody get to see old unanswered questions?

Question

I have 2 questions I asked that have been sitting w/ no answers for days. Do they only make the recent ones available for people to see? Seems to me like it would be an easy way for someone to increase their standings to look these up. Don't you?

For instance I may have a couple questions waiting w/ no responses. If you checked into my quest asked maybe you'd find them and you possibly could add an answer that may be the only and therefore who knows? I can't make it any more clear without ...
well you know.

Answer 1

I jumped back over here to show you that we can see all of your questions old and new.

Answer 2

Of course I do not know but I do not feel that it is the case. I invariaaal find with each question the period still left for response normally 3 days.That is the last three days ,the question itself may be lying without resonse for some time before that. However some in fact all questions has a remark of its being asked which in most cases is a few minites or even a few seconds.Of course some questions are removed partly because thee have been adequate responses to it and others pehaps because they did not evoke any interest or were found undesirale. In any case even if they were removed for the earlier reason I personally do feel that it mayb be advisable for administrative interest. Howvever I have a suggestion. Questions which are rather old may come in red colour so that those who want can attent to them immediately.Also I feel it would be a good idea to make a list of such deleted questions separately available so that if somebody wants to give them a try he could. As it is on account of the plethora of questions one is not able to do full justice to all the questions on board

One more suggestion I would like to make is that each question should bear a numberif the number runs to astronomical proportions some alternative idenification can be looked into) and it should possible to invoke the question by reference to the its ID. Many of the quetions need quite a good research but it so happens that if you open different portals for the purpose the question itself will get either wied out or mixed up and become untraceable. All the preparations made for answering go waste. The question may suddenly pop us suddenly but unless the answering material is preserved the process has to be gone into once again.

Answer 3

I don't get it? Increase your standings by looking up old unanswered questions? I would think that if you really want to have your question answered, then you should try posting it AGAIN in a different category OR at a different time of day for better results. I seriously doubt that anyone can alter their standings on THIS site, as it has pretty much just become ONE BIG JOKE & most of the intelligent people have either moved on or given up! I suspect that most of what is on this site is computer generated anyway!!!

Answer 4

huh? - "increase someones standing to look up unanswered questions" - i dont understand what you mean by this

you can extend the expiry date of your answers, i just did that cos i asked a question and only got 1 answer

i think all questions - open or resolved - just hang out on their catogory page, no matter how many answers they did or didnt get

i open resolved questions all the time - and a few have only had 2 answers

Answer 5

When you first go to answer questions on the page that lists the questions, you can choose to see the questions listed by DATE or by NUMBER of answers. It's kinda small up near the top of the questions. Everybody just uses the DATE as it is preset.