Suggestion Unanswered Threads

I thought it wouldn't hurt to have an Unanswered Threads link (along with Mark Forums Read | Search Forums | Watched Forums | Watched Threads | New Posts | Spy). Rather than browsing the entire forum looking for unanswered threads, they will all be listed under Unanswered Threads.

 

@digitalpoint After I posted the suggestion I realized that you already have this option (sort of).

Click on he Forums tab ==> click on the search field ==> click on the More.. button ==> click on the Threads and Posts tab. It will have the option of choosing threads with 0 replies:

https://www.digitalpoint.com/search/?type=post

 

Now that I've tested it, I don't think it's doing what it's supposed to do. If I keep it at 0 it's still choosing posts with replies. Is it a bug or is it how it's supposed to be?

 

LOL. I see. Either way a zero should be a zero. Thanks for nothing XenForo.

 

By the way, maybe Unanswered Threads is a bit misleading, what if it was Threads With Zero Replies? I am not sure why you don't see it as useful. In my book it will be the most used link, for sure. But if you think it's nonessential, then it probably is.

 

I don't really see the benefit? Most users are not interested in, or capable of writing answers to threads in every subforum. The simplest way is to just go to the subforums you're intersted in, and just open up the new threads (the bold entries)? I don't really see the benefit in having a "list empty threads"?

 

Then why have the New Posts, Spy, Search Forums, etc. links? Just go to the subforums and find all the threads in bold. It's all about convenience, PoPSiCLe. I am not saying it's going to be some super duper option ALL people will use at ALL times, but it will definitely benefit some of the users. There will be significantly more threads replied to since those threads will be easily accessible. There are hundreds of threads that have zero replies that are just sitting there. Some of the users that posted those threads may never come back thinking this forum is dead. Now granted some of the threads may not be worth replying to, but I guarantee you if you spend time searching this forum you will find many good threads with zero replies. But... since they are all over the place, not everybody wants to spend time (or has time) to search for them. As I am typing this I am thinking why in the world this option wasn't part of XenForo to begin with? It only makes sense to have it.

 

Well... maybe? But then, since most information has a limited shelf life, listing all unanswered threads with no limit on when they were posted just seems to beg for "me too" posts on threads that are more vinegar than aged wine... Oh well, I guess I'm just not one to use such things. Note: I haven't pushed one of the mentioned links once the time I've used this forum either.

 

The benefit would be to try to help somebody nobody has yet helped instead of wasting time on a thread with replies that may or may not have helped the original poster. I look for zero reply threads thinking if somebody has already replied, hopefully the original poster got the advice they seek.