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I found this to be related to a question I asked a while back: Option to order unanswered questions by fewest views per time?

In a comment to the answer I got from Robert Harvey I wrote the following:

If a question has many views, but no answers, then it might be because the question is too hard. If the question has no answers and no views, it might just be that no one has seen the question. Also if someone looks at a question in the view it would be moved further down the list, so it would always be the questions that has been shown the least attention that turns up in this view.

That comment summarizes the problem pretty well. If you need more context you could always take a look at the question.

I don't oppose to auto-deleting old, unanswered zero-score questions after a year, but I believe that my proposal could significantly reduce the number of unanswered zero-score questions.

Until today I was unaware of the existence of http://data.stackexchange.com. I'm not familiar with stackoverflow's database schema and I don't work with SQL on a daily basis, so I figure that someone else could implement my query much faster than I could.

If I could ask for two things those would be: my proposed view implemented as a query on http://data.stackexchange.com, so that I and others can see what kind of questions are returned to evaluate the usefulness of such a view; and a comment from Jeff Atwood, just to know if he thinks it's something that will be implemented.

EDIT: Managed to compose the following query: http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/s/1125/least-noticed-questions

I guess it will be more useful if you filter it to only include tags of your interest. You probably also want to exclude questions with accepted answers.

I found this to be related to a question I asked a while back: Option to order unanswered questions by fewest views per time?

In a comment to the answer I got from Robert Harvey I wrote the following:

If a question has many views, but no answers, then it might be because the question is too hard. If the question has no answers and no views, it might just be that no one has seen the question. Also if someone looks at a question in the view it would be moved further down the list, so it would always be the questions that has been shown the least attention that turns up in this view.

That comment summarizes the problem pretty well. If you need more context you could always take a look at the question.

I don't oppose to auto-deleting old, unanswered zero-score questions after a year, but I believe that my proposal could significantly reduce the number of unanswered zero-score questions.

Until today I was unaware of the existence of http://data.stackexchange.com. I'm not familiar with stackoverflow's database schema and I don't work with SQL on a daily basis, so I figure that someone else could implement my query much faster than I could.

If I could ask for two things those would be: my proposed view implemented as a query on http://data.stackexchange.com, so that I and others can see what kind of questions are returned to evaluate the usefulness of such a view; and a comment from Jeff Atwood, just to know if he thinks it's something that will be implemented.

EDIT: Managed to compose the following query: https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/s/1125/least-noticed-questions

I guess it will be more useful if you filter it to only include tags of your interest. You probably also want to exclude questions with accepted answers.

I found this to be related to a question I asked a while back: Option to order unanswered questions by fewest views per time?

In a comment to the answer I got from Robert Harvey I wrote the following:

If a question has many views, but no answers, then it might be because the question is too hard. If the question has no answers and no views, it might just be that no one has seen the question. Also if someone looks at a question in the view it would be moved further down the list, so it would always be the questions that has been shown the least attention that turns up in this view.

That comment summarizes the problem pretty well. If you need more context you could always take a look at the question.

I don't oppose to auto-deleting old, unanswered zero-score questions after a year, but I believe that my proposal could significantly reduce the number of unanswered zero-score questions.

Until today I was unaware of the existence of http://data.stackexchange.com. I'm not familiar with stackoverflow's database schema and I don't work with SQL on a daily basis, so I figure that someone else could implement my query much faster than I could.

If I could ask for two things those would be: my proposed view implemented as a query on http://data.stackexchange.com, so that I and others can see what kind of questions are returned to evaluate the usefulness of such a view; and a comment from Jeff Atwood, just to know if he thinks it's something that will be implemented.

EDIT: Managed to compose the following query: http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/s/1125/least-noticed-questions

I guess it will be more useful if you filter it to only include tags of your interest. You probably also want to exclude questions with accepted answers.

I found this to be related to a question I asked a while back: Option to order unanswered questions by fewest views per time?

In a comment to the answer I got from Robert Harvey I wrote the following:

If a question has many views, but no answers, then it might be because the question is too hard. If the question has no answers and no views, it might just be that no one has seen the question. Also if someone looks at a question in the view it would be moved further down the list, so it would always be the questions that has been shown the least attention that turns up in this view.

That comment summarizes the problem pretty well. If you need more context you could always take a look at the question.

I don't oppose to auto-deleting old, unanswered zero-score questions after a year, but I believe that my proposal could significantly reduce the number of unanswered zero-score questions.

Until today I was unaware of the existence of http://data.stackexchange.com. I'm not familiar with stackoverflow's database schema and I don't work with SQL on a daily basis, so I figure that someone else could implement my query much faster than I could.

If I could ask for two things those would be: my proposed view implemented as a query on http://data.stackexchange.com, so that I and others can see what kind of questions are returned to evaluate the usefulness of such a view; and a comment from Jeff Atwood, just to know if he thinks it's something that will be implemented.

EDIT: Managed to compose the following query: http://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/s/1125/least-noticed-questions

I guess it will be more useful if you filter it to only include tags of your interest. You probably also want to exclude questions with accepted answers.