I would like a way to keep track of questions I am currently helping people with. Sometimes I want to help with more than one question at a time, but I fear leaving the other person out in the cold. It would be nice to have a window with questions I am currently following.

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I would like a way to keep track of questions I am currently helping people with.  Sometimes I want to help with more than one question at a time, but I fear leaving the other person out in the cold.  It would be nice to have a window with questions I am currently following.

farmdawgnation · Answer

Hey Georules,

So, whenever you leave a reply you should get a notification if the other user replies back. In a way, you are "following" that particular question because you'll receive notifications every time there is activity.

Is this feature not meeting your needs?

anonymous · Answer

the notifications are more annoying than useful, constantly flashing at me.  I'd like an index to the questions I am currently working on, similar to "your questions"

farmdawgnation · Answer

Hm, that's an interesting idea. At what point would you want a question removed from that list? In many ways you can access a list similar to this by going to your profile and clicking on the "Questions Answered" filter.

anonymous · Answer

if I could just click them off myself using a little X that would be great.  I never noticed the questions answered filter, but where it'd be useful is right next to unanswered questions  like "Your active questions"

anonymous · Answer

or they could autoprune when they are no longer active/closed

anonymous · Answer

"Your Questions" right now is really geared torwards help-seekers.  the same would be useful for help-givers

anonymous · Answer

*towards

farmdawgnation · Answer

Yeah, auto-pruning is the most scalable solution by far - but the problem is that a question isn't necessarily "closed" as soon as someone gets a "Good Answer" medal.  So some thought will have to be put into with regard to how we implement that. 

Oftentimes, interaction continues after a medal is awarded. 

Anyway, I'll make sure the other team members see this thread. Thanks for the suggestion!

anonymous · Answer

Sure!  I'd be interested in helping in a larger capacity if you all could use it.

anonymous · Answer

oh, couldn't there just be a "close my question" button for the help-seeker?  I suppose maybe not, if the thread moves on to a topic that other people are discussing.

farmdawgnation · Answer

It's an idea we've considered. As with anything, OpenStudy is constantly evolving so it's entirely possible something like that will appear.

kainui · Answer

I'd just like to second this. I tend to get tangled up in answering several questions at once end up with a lot of "Your question has been answered!" notifications when it's kind of a meaningless alert for me.