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What can or should be done about the unanswered?
Science is hard.
Not every question can actually be answered.
Answering takes time.
It's not about statistics.
With that out of the way, let's focus on the problem at hand: We could do better. The ...
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Lets clean up this backlog of unanswered questions
As a site grows it is expected to have more and more unanswered questions.
In beta stages it was important to get to approximately 90% answered questions to show that there is an answering crowd with ...
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Fallacy in my argument, reason for getting question closed? How to improve my (another) question? Why did I get half the bounty amount?
My (very brief) analysis is as follows.
Anything that uses hybridisation for transition metal complexes is almost certainly wrong, see: Why is it wrong to use the concept of hybridization for ...
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Inconsistency in "Unanswered" category, when moving between pages
I am positive this is working as expected. I went through the first 15 entries in this list. I believe the secondary sort criterion is votes. Remember that in SE terms a question is only answered is ...
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What can or should be done about the unanswered?
I don't see closed questions as too much of a problem. Correct me if I'm wrong, please, but the closed questions with low traffic get removed after some time, right?
My thought is to first go to the ...
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