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| May 22, 2015 at 10:00 | comment | added | scunliffe | @Christina I just think as a label it does a really poor job of "rolling off the tongue"... From a UI perspective IMHO I wouldn't dream of shipping it with that label :-) | |
| May 22, 2015 at 7:46 | comment | added | Christina | @scunliffe I assume it is Need Answer (without an s) because it is plural, as in "These questions need an answer" (it's a small detail, I know, but you started it ;) ) | |
| May 21, 2015 at 22:14 | comment | added | scunliffe | cough Needs Answer cough without the "s" it doesn't sound right, in fact it sounds like it is offering the user a service... e.g. "Need Answer? We have 7.24 coders waiting to give answers!" | |
| May 21, 2015 at 7:07 | comment | added | Christina | I get the distinction and in my opinion it does make sense to include both options, however I still feel that the difference between the two is not intuitive to the user. Given that, for the moment at least, I can't come up with any better wording I would support the proposal of @starsplusplus to include a small description somewhere in that page. | |
| May 20, 2015 at 17:45 | comment | added | Rachel | @Catija That's fine too, some no-answer questions are interesting to me as well, or simply have no answer because they're more advanced :) | |
| May 20, 2015 at 17:25 | comment | added | Catija | @Rachel That's nice :) But the current options don't actually exclude the "no answer" questions, so you'd still have to sort through them. | |
| May 20, 2015 at 17:22 | comment | added | Rachel | @j08691 Personally I prefer the "needs answer" list to the "no answer" list. I would rather post answers to questions that have an existing incorrect or low-quality answer than a question with no answer at all, as the chances of educating more than one person is higher. No-Answer questions can be left to those that are seeking rep. Also in cases where there is an existing good answer with no upvotes, I upvote it :) | |
| May 20, 2015 at 16:49 | comment | added | j08691 | @Shog9 - no, I stay here ;) | |
| May 20, 2015 at 16:36 | comment | added | Shog9 Mod | Ever seen msdn forums, @j08691? Endless questions with one lazy, unhelpful answer, all unanswered for any real purpose. See: blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/ok-now-define-answered | |
| May 20, 2015 at 16:34 | comment | added | starsplusplus | @Sklivvz How about leaving the button as "need answer", but having a small line of text under the heading when you're on that part of the navigation, that says, "Questions with no upvoted or accepted answers"? (and obviously corresponding short descriptions for the other sections) | |
| May 20, 2015 at 16:34 | comment | added | Sklivvz Mod | @ChristianRau the sorts are different | |
| May 20, 2015 at 16:33 | comment | added | starsplusplus | @j08691 If any of the answers are good enough to get just a single upvote, it will indeed be up to the OP to do so as you suggest. But why is a question that has a single crappy -3 answer that doesn't solve the problem any less deserving of an answer than a question with no answers? | |
| May 20, 2015 at 16:27 | comment | added | Christian Rau |
@Sklivvz But wouldn't this then already be part of the "new" tab? What does need answer -> all actually do compared to new -> newest. Or is non-redundancy not actually a goal of the new design (which would be fine, too, I just didn't have the impression it wasn't)?
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| May 20, 2015 at 16:25 | comment | added | j08691 | WRT the "need answer" vs "no answer" issue, I think "no answer" is concise and obvious. I don't see the need for a "need answer" option at all; the question has answers so it's then up to the OP to accept an answer, clarify the question, or add a bounty to it if the given answers aren't sufficient. | |
| May 20, 2015 at 16:23 | comment | added | Sklivvz Mod | People like to see all questions in a tag sorted by newest, and answer questions as they are asked. It's the main way in which people (statistically) find stuff to answer on SO. | |
| May 20, 2015 at 16:22 | comment | added | Christian Rau | @Sklivvz But what then does the "all" option do inside the "need answer" tab? | |
| May 20, 2015 at 15:36 | comment | added | Sklivvz Mod | Questions that "Need answer" are questions with no upvoted or accepted answers. Questions that are have "no answer" are questions without any answer. This behavior is inherited from the current navigation. Regarding an alternative wording: do you have a suggestion (needs to be coincise)? | |
| May 20, 2015 at 15:24 | comment | added | falsarella |
Need answer is very different from Unaccepted. Newcomers often say Thank you, it worked, but they didn't accepted it.
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| May 20, 2015 at 15:20 | history | edited | Christina | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 20, 2015 at 15:18 | history | answered | Christina | CC BY-SA 3.0 |