Zero-reply count in BSD, was: The (un?)helpfulness of the BSD Community

girarde · 10-15-2010, 06:28 AM

I clicked the Zero Replies link recently to see what was being ignored. There were 327 threads that did not have a single reply.

None of them were in the BSD forum.

eyerobot · 10-15-2010, 06:37 AM

It seems that you may have misnamed your post.
I suggest The helpfulness of the BSD Community, Since BSD seems to be a popular place to get replies.
Just a thought.

GrapefruiTgirl · 10-15-2010, 06:38 AM

Hi there!

I don't understand the thread title vs the post body - how might that zero-reply situation imply unhelpfulness? I'd have thought the opposite - if there are no zero-replies, then either the community is very helpful, or nobody has questions.

David1357 · 10-15-2010, 08:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by girarde

None of them were in the BSD forum.

It looks like you have stumbled across a defect in the code that displays the posts with zero replies. A quick look at

LinuxQuestions.org > Forums > Other *NIX Forums > *BSD

shows several zero reply posts.

forrestt · 10-15-2010, 09:12 AM

It is definitely a bug. If you look at the *BSD forum, the first 0 reply bug is dated 9-25-2010. If you then do a zero reply search, and go to the portion of the search list that contains that date, that particular bug is not listed.

Forrest

GrapefruiTgirl · 10-15-2010, 09:19 AM

What I wonder, is (assuming a bug) maybe the forum name "*BSD" is causing a problem with the zero-reply code, because of the "*" character.

Reporting this for a possible move to "Suggestions + Feedback".

jlliagre · 10-15-2010, 11:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by forrestt

It is definitely a bug. If you look at the *BSD forum, the first 0 reply bug is dated 9-25-2010. If you then do a zero reply search, and go to the portion of the search list that contains that date, that particular bug is not listed.

I don't think there is any bug with the *BSD forum. That particular posting does appear in the zero reply list. You misread its date which is September the 25th, not 23rd.

forrestt · 10-15-2010, 12:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jlliagre

I don't think there is any bug with the *BSD forum. That particular posting does appear in the zero reply list. You misread its date which is September the 25th, not 23rd.

You are correct. My apologies.

Forrest

girarde · 10-15-2010, 01:48 PM

The (un?) was ironic.

hughetorrance · 10-24-2010, 05:52 AM

As it happens the BSD forums are typically just like the Linux ones...people ask questions that really just raise more questions...every community likes pertinent intuitive inquiries,what they don,t like is a question that takes as long to answer as it originally took them to find out the answer. LOL