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Hello, reading the Additional Badge Ideas thread, I got an idea.

Why don't we make it easier to find those rare posts? For instance, the tumbleweed posts with no votes, low views, and no answers. Right now, all we can get are a ton of unanswered questions to filter through. Why not allow for a new tab on the unanswered questions page labeled "views" where it sorts the unanswered questions by the amount of views?

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https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=votes:0+views:0+answers:0

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    wow a lot more 0 view questions than I thought
    – Earlz
    Commented Apr 13, 2010 at 22:52
  • yep, and pretty old too!
    – Evgeny
    Commented Apr 14, 2010 at 5:16
  • Omg doing this search on Super User gives nearly 10% of all the questions like that :O
    – Ivo Flipse
    Commented Apr 14, 2010 at 6:18
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    This answer appears to be outdated. The search page says that the votes and views keywords specify a minimum.
    – John
    Commented Jul 30, 2011 at 4:26
  • (+1) Cool! I had no idea. ;-)
    – Marcelo
    Commented Nov 2, 2012 at 8:23
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    @John It is correct, at least for votes and answers. When either of those options is set to 0, it will only search for posts with 0. To get 0 or more, you'd have to put 0.. there. The views operator does not have such a restriction and will search for 0 or more (and essentially does nothing at all in this search query). Technically the views operator here doesn't make sense, because it's not possible for a question to have 0 views.
    – animuson StaffMod
    Commented Jul 31, 2014 at 19:06
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how about adding an ascending version of sort to the existing ones? I've tried it on my askbot project (check it out if you care - there's a link on my profile :).

Basically if you click again on hot you will get cold, then click again and get the "hot" back? You have the same control (the sort by date of entry tab, but it's action would toggle).

This works ok IMO if the control is rendered as a button with changing text or has a triangle icon inside denoting the sort order, which would flip... just thought of a pure ui-based solution.

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