Question

What criteria is used to establish that a question is unanswered?

Answer 1

none?

Answer 2

I am talking about the new feature where we can click on "unanswered questions" to view just those questions that have note been answered yet.

Answer 3

oh, forgot about it, yeah it would be interesting to know it because question with answer, no answers, medals no medals are shown

Answer 4

yes - that is why I wanted to know what criteria is being used.

Answer 5

or does it currently have a bug?

Answer 6

It should only be questions that have no medals. If you're seeing questions with medals in the unanswered tab, that means something's wrong heh.

Answer 7

here is an example from the Mathematics group

Answer 8

it's because of another bug, all red things is shown in unanswered questions, but as it was mentioned earlier some questions are red even with medals

Answer 9

Aha. Indeed. We'll look at it and see what's up, thanks.

Answer 10

ok - thanks for acknowledging this.

Answer 11

That is not a good criteria to determine if a question is "answered" or not. There are many times I get medals for attempting to teach and I give for the same reason. The question is not answered yet in this case.

Answer 12

It's not a criteria so much as a heuristic. We're trying to get a decent idea of whether a question has been answered while not producing too many false negatives (i.e., cases where the original poster never marked something as answered).

Answer 13

Moreover, on a site like this, we call it answered, but really it's more useful to know if there is a person present who will likely end up giving an answer, which if you're interacting and get a medal is likely (though not guaranteed!) to be the case.

We intend to do some random sampling on our database to see how accurate the heuristic is.