Open ewinslow opened 11 years ago
A simpler version of this could just be tracking posts that haven't gotten responses. That could even be really good for discouraging bumps since bumping would remove it from the "unreplied" list.
Just need to cache the total replies count on the topic entity. Filter for the ones with a zero value. Hmm... Another use case for a computed values API...
Goals:
As is, posts with the most activity wind up at the top, which is good for discussion, but unpopular posts that need answers can slip off the end of the page quickly without anyone noticing. That's pretty discouraging for people who are looking for support.
Here are the basic features I envision:
More advanced features:
Problem: I suspect people don't generally want to take explicit action to mark their post as resolved. Could end up requiring a lot of manual curation by the admins (urgg...). How to streamline this? Email reminders could help. Auto-resolving could help (e.g. Stack overflow auto-selects one of the answers after a certain period).