how many threads get resolved
 

how about including a way to mark a post as "closed" by the original poster of the message? it seems like there are so many messages nowadays that once you post it gets shuffled off the screen in just a couple hours. if it doesn't get answered in that short time frame then your question is lost in oblivion.

is there a stat in this regard. how many questions are actually answered satisfactorily (i know this is hard to judge b/c some people say things like 'how do i get linux to work') but i was wondering if someone keeps some sort of track of the percentage of questions that get answered.

later on.

That would require the origional poster coming back. I would estimate that at least 60% of replied threads are never updated again by the poster saying if it passed/failed/helped. If they won't do that, they certainly won't 'close' a thread. I sometimes feel like going back and quoting my own help and saying 'No REALLY!', but either it fixed them, or they gave up.

RO

pfunk,

Please do a search on this. It's come up quite a few times and has even been implemented here.

--jeremy

jeremy - Every time i use this web site i search for the topic of my question first. if it's a technical topic I often find the result here or in google without even posting. but this thread was much more general so google would be useless. I just tried typing in "close thread", "percentage resolved", and "statistics" in the local site search box and the number of hits that comes up is way too much to sort through or the ones that come back have no validity.

posts like "this has been discussed here before, search for it" are lame in my opinion since there's so much stuff on this web site now that just knowing it's been discussed before isn't good enough especially if it's a general topic and not a technical problem. maybe you have an idea what am i supposed to search for to find the thread that is about closing threads or how many questions actually get resolved ... I sure as hell don't have any idea how I would find that.

pfunk,

I agree that things can get lost quite easily sometimes, especially in some of the tech forums. Some suggestions come up multiple times though. My post was meant to let you know that this one has been discussed before.

Implemented:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=39606

A few past threads:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=55958
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=96832
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=32105

--jeremy

People come here to find the solution to their problems. Some of them register because they wanna ask only one question. He comes back to check if anybody is answered to his problem. Maybe he check a few titles and takes a look into most interesting ones. They are lazy they do not want to search through the forums and find similar threads. I do not wanna search and read hundreds of pointless messages.

So I say. Forum is better if it is spread to catecories. I mean that the most interesting/problematic packages are put into catecories. like gnu, compilers, libraries, networking, games etc. It sounds like tutorials.

Here is a problem. People ask many times the same question. But the problem is explained million times over. So why not make it this way: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=118137

I do not wanna explain everything to details because my english is bad. I see a problem and I give a solution. Think about it. I think that here can be done something revolutionary.

Problem involves using/configuring, compiling (dependensies) and thats all. Compiling is solved with LFS some times and even here can be done many things.

Oeh... I think that I'm wasting my time with checking spelling. What do you think about it. There is so much to do and to talk about.