asked 2014-02-01 16:36:41 +0300
Call me all you want, but I want to go through all open questions to share my opinions and votes. The number of questions is quite intimidating, though. Please add an option to show open question only. Maybe even make it default behaviour?
Edit: As a workaround, top menu UNANSWERED now shows only questions which are open & have no accepted answers. (Thanks to @eric )
answered 2014-02-05 08:06:18 +0300
Closed questions (and tag-system)
I support @Neo's suggestion that the easiest way to filter out closed questions from the lists would be simply to add to the top-level menu of Together an 'Open' tab alongside All, Unanswered and Followed that would show only questions that have not been closed.
Edit: In the upstream Askbot discussions the suggestion is to filter out those questions that have been closed as "duplicates","irrelevant" or "spam" as showing up in the question list, and it would be optimal if the added "Open" tab would in Together filter out questions using such (or similar) criteria.
In regads to using tags-system to this (as has been suggested elsewhere), here is a more more general comment abt it; please don't over-do it ;) Tags have their uses and benefits but they shouldn't be used as solutions to all possible needs to categorize questions here. Other means should be used for such top-level groupings of questions.
Besides, tagging closed questions with the same or similar tags that is selected from list using the 'Close'-button would mean that the already existing info about Closing will be duplicated. This requires then that the user-faced tags and backend-side reason-data should be kept in sync somehow. So, let's not replicate in tags info that is already in system, but rather provide users ways to browse and search questions using also backend-data and categories (if such are possible in Askbot).
It would also be nice to hear what is @eric's opinion on the capabilities of Askkbot/Together-platform to provide top-level categorizations and groupings of content here outside the tag-system.
I agree that the proper solution to this would be to add filtering option based on the closed status.
This question has been also asked from the upstream Askbot
Keto ( 2014-02-05 10:20:32 +0300 )edit@jjaone I really hope this feature could be developed. After that, this idea is a way better than using tag panel for this (like suggested in another answer). +1. However, meanwhile my "tag answer" is maybe the only workaround to answer this question, so it shouldn't be downgraded in your answer.
simo ( 2014-02-05 10:52:41 +0300 )editanswered 2014-02-05 13:24:44 +0300
In Askbot settings, change "'What should "unanswered question" mean? to "Question has no accepted answers"
After this, selecting Unanswered from top menu should filter questions which are closed & questions which have an accepted answer --> showing all open questions which have no accepted answers
Edit: This solution was taken into use as a workaround. Please vote only, if you see this as a better permanent solution compared to other given answers.
answered 2014-02-01 17:12:47 +0300
Edit: There is a better answer (which I voted myself too), but while that solution is not yet possible, this answer can be taken as a workaround:
Way to achieve that requires some work, but it's possible now with the extended tag panel. For this, we would need:
duplicate, off-topic, fixed, outdatedAs said, this takes some work, and unfortunately there's no way to search for only closed questions to make this any easier.
This answer is edited after a comment from @Neo (I agree with it, earlier this answer presented a "closed" tag.)
Asked: 2014-02-01 16:36:41 +0300
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I see this one as very important. Think about close future: 10 000 questions of which about 9000 are closed, but they are still along in every search result (except for "Unanswered, which unfortunately also filters all open questions with an answer). Please vote up.
simo ( 2014-02-05 04:09:18 +0300 )editI might have found a new workaround. Check my latest answer :)
simo ( 2014-02-05 13:26:37 +0300 )editA duplicate was closed today. It would be very convenient to have a new 'Open' scope.
Nicolas ( 2014-10-14 14:13:31 +0300 )edit