So I notice that some questions simply go unanswered. Due to the volume of questions asked, sometimes these questions go away from the front page fairly quickly, and then they are never seen or heard from again. If such an event occurs, can one re-ask the question?
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Suppose you had a question, and you really want a good answer that would solve your problem, but noticed it was already asked by someone else. However, no one has posted any answers. The question is technically considered "unanswered", but a lot of users who would otherwise bother to give a correct answer probably skip the question completely for some reason.  What should I do in this case?  One idea is to ask a new, completely identical question, in the hope users will notice the new question and post an answer there. But would that go against SE policy?     Note: This is adapted from , but that doesn't cover the case where the original question is unanswered. Also, it is not a duplicate of , as that question asks about getting attention for one's own questions, while this one and the one linked above ask about getting an answer if someone else has already posted the same thing.
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I believe most people . Surely some use the "" link above, or the others filtering options. Others just attack them randomly when they're feeling a thrust of need to answer questions. And there are the foreigns who come across questions for whatever reason (such as google) to eventually give an answer.  I don't have a method, but I see there are way too many unanswered questions (right now,  and ). There's probably at least one question there that I could answer, but I'm finding it quite too hard to find the ones that are "right for me".  So, how do you do to find your answerable questions?  I couldn't even find a duplicate to this, as I figure there must be one.
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The FAQ mentions bounty, but sometimes a question just doesn't really have a right answer:   No solution exists The question as written is unanswerable and unsalvageable There may be a technically correct answer, but the asker is unable to utilize it for some reason.   In these cases, a bounty, and more answers, won't really help. What is the appropriate etiquette in these cases? Should the question be closed? Left hanging?
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Today I have stumbled across a question that was closed . When reading this question , I thought it was valid, and I even might have an answer for it . So I went and read  and  along with some other related questions here on meta . The issue is that because :  I do NOT have 3000 points to vote for opening,  The said question is not my own ,  The person who closed it did not leave a comment, It seems that I have no option to reopen it and answer.   What one should do in that case ? Flag it for moderator ?  I would think this is not the appropriate action here . Contact the closer personally  ? - Same as Above (and also , how ?) Leaving a simple comment ? By reading the above mentioned questions - leaving a simple comment will do nothing by itself to reopen or to catch attention (unless someone else stumbles upon it ..) So what are my options for action ?? (the question is  for reference)
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Do users get notified when their question is reopened? I know there are no notifications , and that makes sense because 1) you assume the user is paying attention to their open, unanswered question, and they'll probably notice it's been put on hold and 2) it follows with the SE policy of (in general) not sending notifications for negative events.  However a reopening is a good thing, and once a question is closed it becomes less likely that the OP will be coming back to check on it often (so they might not notice the reopening otherwise). If there are not reopen notifications, why not? Or can we add them?
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I ask a lot of question on SO, so this recommendation/idea comes from that experience. I'm not really sure how this would fit in with the current structure of SE.   Oftentimes after asking a question, maybe after an hour or so, I end up finding the answer I needed somewhere. And it comes time for me to answer the most difficult question of all: do I delete this question, or do I keep it in case someone answers and others may benefit from it. The problem is, if I don't delete it and no one answers, my acceptance rate goes down. So usually I'll just delete it.  However, sometimes I fear that someone is typing a really really long answer to my question since itäs only been an hour, and so I imagine the nightmare that person experiences when they find out their essay will be gone to waste. Overall, this never-to-be-seen-again answer could have benefitted many people had the question remained.  Since SE has gone "live-happy" lately, where answers and comments refresh live, I thought it might be interesting if the original asker of the question (or anyone else for that matter) could see how many people are currently responding to the question (just count, not necessary to display their names). This way, if I know someone is replying, I won't delete the question, and others can benefit from it.
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I am relatively new to SO and see this very often. As the title suggests there are many questions that are answered in comments itself and they remain unanswered forever. Shouldn't there be an option to mark a comment as an answer and the comment is copied over as an answer or something like that?  I guess there should be an option to the creator of the question to do this.
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A couple of days ago  for a problem I had.  I got no answers, but almost by chance I solved my problem.  I am not quite sure if the question and answer are really relevant given that the solution was so simple.  So I have a question on the question:   Should I answer it (moving current Update 2 as an answer) and in a couple of days accept my own answer, so that question and answer are part of the archive? Should I ask for an administrative closing of the question, so the question reminds in the archive but not as an answered question? Should I ask for deletion of the question, so the question is removed for the archive?
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In  Joel Spolsky mentioned something along the lines that some sites (for example, ) suffer a little from questions that don't always get useful answers - even when someone has good intentions. So, for example, someone asks a question about getting a visa. It's tough and a rare visa, but nobody who has been online that day sees it AND knows the answer, so it gets no response. However, Joe from Kansas sees it, remembers his cousin got a visa just like that, he thinks. He writes an answer that his cousin got a visa for that country, despite it being not quite the same, he thinks it'll be useful. It's not necessarily useful, but now the question is 'answered', and vanishes into the ether. Obviously, the OP isn't going to accept the answer, as it's not really right. We do have a few of these on Travel Answers, as well as many, many GOOD answers, to be clear - but what can be done about it?  Vote them down? This will make it still 'unanswered with no answers &gt; 0' if we're lucky Delete the answer? Odds are someone else coming along might see it and find it useful in a very similar situation Change to a comment? Some of these are quite detailed (especially visa criteria and laws) that most of us wouldn't know to change it or not.  Any suggestions or solutions that other sites have found?
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There are lots of questions tagged  that don't have a  response.  How do we interpret this? Is it because they are declined by default? We just have to wait for a response (the team is very busy)? Is Jeff the only one that reviews this questions?  I suppose the ones that have negative votes may (or may not) be declined by default, but there are quite a few with some to a lot upvotes that should have an official answer.
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The  is currently showing [closed], [duplicated] and [on hold] questions at the need answer tab. My suggestion is to hide them since they can't be answered.   Sorting by "votes" at SO, we see tons of [duplicated] questions filling almost the entire first page. This way is harder to find good questions (= high upvoted) to answer.
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What do you do when you want to ask a question, but find an exact duplicate that doesn't actually have a useful answer? This has happened to me multiple times in the past, so I figure it probably happens to others as well and is therefore worthy of discussion.  To give a recent example: I wanted to find an answer of mine that I'd deleted on SO, so I searched meta to see if this was possible. I found that someone had , but it doesn't have any (real/useful) answers. Now, in this case the real "answer" is probably just "you can't", but it's also entirely possible that things have changed since the question was asked.  So, how do I go about getting an answer to my question?  A few obvious options are (with associated problems):   Bump the old question by editing it (or its tags)   not possible for low rep users creates revision noise  Bump the old question by adding an answer   creates unnecessary noise  Just ask the duplicate question   more noise duplicate will probably just be closed anyway     been [status-planned] since July, so may never actually be possible your question may not be so burning that you want to create a bounty (especially for a low rep user), but that doesn't mean the question has no value    &amp; of course I'm sure someone will close this as a duplicate of an old, stale, unanswered question just for the beautiful irony (I did search, but didn't find anything).
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I'm a moderator on . I recently was surprised to find a question I had ‘helped with’ vanish without a trace from the site (including any references to my actions on it). Now, of course, questions can be deleted, but deletions are of interest to moderators, right?  As part of my search, I found the /admin/recently-self-deleted page and went there. The question was not listed even though, afterward, I determined that it had been self-deleted (at the time) two hours ago. It is now days since the deletion and the question is still not showing up, even though other questions have. This seems like a bug.  For any moderators/SE staff wishing to investigate:  and .  The question has no votes, no answers, and was deleted one day after it was posted.
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I've been asking quite a few questions on several Stack Exchange sites, and I'm finding it harder and harder to keep track of them all.    Is there any way/place to see a listing of all my questions with no answer accepted on all of the Stack Exchange (2.0) sites? Or even just per site? If not, are there any plans to implement such a feature?  Although Jeff offered an answer, I don't feel it's the answer to my question; as far I'm aware there still is no way to list only my unanswered questions.
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What circumstances can cause a question or answer to be deleted, and what does that actually mean?    How can a post be deleted? When can't I delete my own post? Can I still see my post even after it's deleted? Can I see a list of my deleted posts? How can I undelete one of my posts? What does deletion mean for a post? How do votes to delete work? What are the criteria for deletion? What else should I know about deleted posts? If I flag my question with a request to delete it, what will happen?       For more information, see the articles about  and  in the .
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If you    Formulate a question vaguely It gets closed / put on hold for this You take the comments to heart and reformulate it It no longer gets attention but you have not enough reputation to trigger a reopen.   Then is there anything you can do? Is closing the question and stating it as a new question a legitimate solution? I have the feeling it is not, but did not find any info here on meta.
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Is it possible that I am not using this feature correctly?  Or perhaps I should be modifying my expectation, but when I click on the 'Unanswered' button I get a list of results that contain perhaps one or two unanswered questions at the top, followed by many more already answered questions.  Another strange thing is that interspersed with the results are random unanswered questions within and around the answered ones, so that we are not only seeing answered questions in with the unanswered ones, but they are not sorted so that the unanswered ones stack up at the top.  Am I the only one to be seeing this?  Am I not using the feature correctly or is there some way that I am supposed to sort the results on my own?