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[phinds]

Down to 9 ... Merry Xmas

 

[mfb]

7 now.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Now we need more members making threads!

 

[phinds]

Back down to 9 again

 

[aphirst]

Is it possible to introduce a distinction between "no replies" and "unanswered"? What I mean is, I made a thread the other day, and for reasons of clarity made a 2nd post, which now means my thread no longer shows up in "unanswered threads" despite in no way actually being answered. It seems "clear" to me that, even if a thread has "replies", if they're all the OP, it's still part of the "question asking". (In my case I was still within the Edit timeframe, so I could have appended Post #2 to it, but let's not forget that the Edit window is, for its own reasons, tightly restricted.)

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Is it possible to introduce a distinction between "no replies" and "unanswered"? What I mean is, I made a thread the other day, and for reasons of clarity made a 2nd post, which now means my thread no longer shows up in "unanswered threads" despite in no way actually being answered. It seems "clear" to me that, even if a thread has "replies", if they're all the OP, it's still part of the "question asking". (In my case I was still within the Edit timeframe, so I could have appended Post #2 to it, but let's not forget that the Edit window is, for its own reasons, tightly restricted.)

It sort of is possible in the homework forums. Sometimes an advisor will mark it as solved. But inside that list it is not possible at the moment.

 

[Charles Link]

Back down to 9 again.

 

[phinds]

Wowzers !

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Down to 4! We need some thread starters!

 

[phinds]

Down to 4! We need some thread starters!

Is this because of Spring Break you reckon ?

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Is this because of Spring Break you reckon ?

I don't know, it's been a pretty slow semester from the start.

 

[berkeman]

I could use a Spring Break!

 

[mfb]

Down to 3. Two of them are very specialized questions, and for the particle physics one I'm not sure if the question has a good answer.

 

[berkeman]

Down to 3.

The Circuits question is low-hanging fruit -- I'll leave it to the hounds in the EE forum.

 

[mfb]

Too late, someone started a new thread.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Jumped up to 41!

 

[Bystander]

Back down to 9 again.

 

[phinds]

and back to single digits again (8). I haven't really paid attention in past years but I assume it will stay relatively low during the summer.

 

[phinds]

and back to single digits again (8). I haven't really paid attention in past years but I assume it will stay relatively low during the summer.

Uh ... seems I was right:

 

[Ygggdrasil]

This is probably the fewest threads I've seen in the unanswered box.

Any AMO expert want to try to make it zero?

 

[Charles Link]

This is probably the fewest threads I've seen in the unanswered box.
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Any AMO expert want to try to make it zero?

I replied to it, but I am too late. There are already a couple more.

 

[Charles Link]

I replied to it, but I am too late. There are already a couple more.

We are now at zero. I just answered the latest unanswered thread.

 

[Charles Link]

This is probably the fewest threads I've seen in the unanswered box.
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Any AMO expert want to try to make it zero?

We are now at zero=probably not for long. :)

 

[mfb]

No unanswered threads found in the last 8 days. Why not https://www.physicsforums.com/unanswered/threads?days=5000 instead?

Nothing after February 2018 due to Greg's bot.

 

[Ygggdrasil]

We are now at zero=probably not for long. :)

We did it!
(alternatively, we have just proven that question answerers have nothing better to do on a Friday evening than answer questions while question askers probably have much better things to be doing)

 

[Charles Link]

7:15 P.M. (Central Standard Time) and we're back to zero for at least the second time today.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

We need new threads :)

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

I have disabled the auto bump feature. Keep an eye on this list
https://www.physicsforums.com/unanswered/threads

 

[Wrichik Basu]

I have disabled the auto bump feature.

You mean the PF Help Bot?

 

[Wrichik Basu]

Seems that the bot had been enabled once again. I see a thread where the bot has posted a message today:

https://www.physicsforums.com/threa...in-this-regular-language.965381/#post-6129047