Demote questions without answers!
Post made about 9pm on 18th July 2008 (a Friday).
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Something that shouldn’t be beyond the wit of Google: parsing a page in a forum that only has one post, posting a question, to which no-one has ever replied – so it can be dropped further down the search results! Or separated into a different set. If I’m searching for a string of words that are constituent parts of a particular question, I’m looking for an answer to that question, primarily. Only secondarily am I looking for another incidence of the same question, with no-one offering to help me.
Oh, and while they’re at it, another type of thread that is due a markdown:
- Newbie:
- I’ve got this problem. I can’t figure it out! I’ve tried this and this and that, and no worky!
- “RTFM” nerd:
- Listen carefully. Type ‘ifgumbo -err –include-suppositories’ into the command line and post what you get. You know what a command line is, right?
- Newbie:
- *screeds and screeds of stdout garbage you have to page down ten times to get through*
- …
- *tumbleweed* *it’s at this point you realise the thread is from 2003*
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