Reading every post

[metulburr]

I surely dont read everything. I did a long time ago. But lately there are too many posts. A lot of them is in areas i dont know much about either. I do skim every title and its location though. I pick out what i can answer or add to based on the title alone. Sometimes i will investigate further if its unclear, but if i know i cant answer it, i dont even bother reading it.

Yeah, Game Development is another one I don't look at.

I usually prioritize game dev first before others.

Hi, I am sort of new to coding, I dont really understand much of the technical jargon so I find the hardest part the title

and the one that look interesting from the title.

when I read something like this I feel disheartened, How to put together an interesting title when you haven't a clue what you are doing? I see your point about dividing up the work load between you, and I can understand that reading every post is impossible, especially when from the title you can see the question has been asked before and the person has not looked properly, (I imagine many of my posts appear that way), But when somebody does take a little bit of their time to answer, it is really is uplifting, so even if you dont look at all the posts, please take a look at mine even if the title is incomprehensible!!!

I am more apt to answer someone's question if they put in the work of a good post. Making sure they use code tags, what they have tried, what they did, show tracebacks, give enough to answer the question. Sometimes it feels like you have to pull teeth from users to get the proper info required to even answer the question. In those cases their posts get on the back burner if there are a lot. But just because someone make a great posts doesnt mean i can answer it. I think that is why i like the "who viewed the thread counter". Because then you know people have at least viewed your thread....even though they might not be able to answer it.

I think expecting everyone to read everything is just going to lead to burn out. We would be better served by making sure someone is reading everything. That is, split up the areas among the core posters, and make sure each area has double/triple coverage, with extra on General Coding.

This is a good idea. This is how larger forums handle it. If we are getting large enough, then maybe we should follow suit too. Are you talking about assigning each of us to "read" each sub-forum posts? Or keeping everyone currently on team a super mod of all forums, and creating new sub-forum mods (from newer users) for each forum? Sub-forum mods have mod access to that specific forum, but not elsewhere.

why omit game development? Or data science?

Its just what that specific mod or admin is not well versed in.

It's times like this I wish we had a robust system for keeping track of answered vs unanswered questions. The answered questions I'd know I can skim more quickly. Might be worth looking into a plugin at some point.

im a little confused by this? What more could there be? How could you more organize unanswered posts?