Unanswered threads

Having just installed Ubuntu last week, I've been constantly reading threads over at Ubuntu Forums. Just now I realized something they've got that would be awesome here: An "unanswered threads" button. Theirs seems to just do a site-wide search for threads with 0 replies. To improve on the idea, maybe something can be implemented here to display the button on each forum page, and have it pull up only threads in that forum.

I know I often will look for threads on the first page with no replies to see what I can do, but if a thread makes it off the first page without any replies it's pretty safe to say it's doomed to stay that way. Maybe this can change that.

Goto advanced search and choose to search for threads with at most 0 replies.

---John Holmes...

I guess I should have looked there first.

It might be a good idea to make a link for it in each forum anyway, as it would encourage people to look up unanswered threads. It could only return the first 50 or so threads so it won't be so hard on the database.

But if the thread is three weeks old and unanswered, does it help anyone to provide a belated solution?

I give up, go on, ask me one on sport

If it's only three weeks old, then there is every chance it could do. Not everyone gets answers to their problems stright away. If it had been driving me crazy for 3 weeks and then I got an answer, I'd be grateful ! On that tho, should unanswered threads be automatically closed after say a time lapse of the last reply/post of say, 12 months ?? Would save posts being added to threads that are over a year old, as I think if it's been that long then the problem will have been solved !