Feature request: "Unanswered post" link

[upaymeifixit]

When I am on MacRumors forums, I usually like to try to just answer people's questions, or contribute unique ideas. I am deterred by high reply counts because they usually means my someone has already said what I have to say, or it's a post that's been going on for a long time which I don't really want to get into.

An unanswered post link would list all of the posts that have 0 (or a low number) of replies, sorted by date.

What do you guys think?

 

[Zwhaler]

You can sort by replies ascending or descending, just not by date... you have to go several pages in to be current.

 

[upaymeifixit]

You can sort by replies ascending or descending, just not by date... you have to go several pages in to be current.

I know (well, actually I didn't), but it would still be nice to have a specific function just for this.

Maybe it's just me.

 

[miles01110]

Do an advanced search for threads with "at most" 0 replies, select the time range, and choose sort in ascending order. I do it every day.

 

[upaymeifixit]

Do an advanced search for threads with "at most" 0 replies, select the time range, and choose sort in ascending order. I do it every day.

So I'm not the only one who likes to find unanswered posts. Wouldn't you like a link to do it though? Nothing to complicated, just something built for that specifically.

 

[miles01110]

So I'm not the only one who likes to find unanswered posts. Wouldn't you like a link to do it though? Nothing to complicated, just something built for that specifically.

You can save search preferences, so no - I don't particularly care if there is a link or not.

 

[GGJstudios]

So I'm not the only one who likes to find unanswered posts. Wouldn't you like a link to do it though? Nothing to complicated, just something built for that specifically.

I perform this search daily, as well, but I restrict my search to only those forums I'm interested in. It only takes a few seconds to perform the search, and since it's not something I need to do several times a day, a link wouldn't really save much time.

 

[Darth.Titan]

You can also watch Forum Spy and hit the bolded threads to answer questions when they're all fresh and shiny and new!

 

[GGJstudios]

You can also watch Forum Spy and hit the bolded threads to answer questions when they're all fresh and shiny and new!

I use Forum Spy, as well, but the search is for zero-response threads that were posted when I was away, so they no longer show on Forum Spy.

 

[Hellhammer]

This might be available as a vBulletin hack but we usually avoid them since they may or may not work with future version of vB (yes, we plan on updating to newer version of vB. Eventually ). The tools suggested above should be good enough.