# Get notified about unanswered questions

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/get-notified-about-unanswered-questions/11732>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [3 Enero, 2014 17:03 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/get-notified-about-unanswered-questions/11732 "2014-01-03T17:03:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![DanielMorgan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/danielmorgan/32/122380_2.png) [@DanielMorgan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/DanielMorgan)\
**Post date:** [15 Abril, 2014 23:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/get-notified-about-unanswered-questions/11732/5 "2014-04-15T23:02:15Z")

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Some method of showing unanswered questions to users would be awesome.

Goals in our forums:

- We don’t want to leave anyone waiting around for an answer (technical support mostly)
- We want to remove any friction that keeps users from helping each other out.

Currently, there’s no easy way in Discourse to see all unanswered questions unless you go to a category directly, sort by ‘Posts’ then sort OR pick topics with \< 2 Posts.

A tab along the top that shows ‘`Unanswered #`’ topics much like ‘`New #`’ shows now would solve my use case. This could be optional in Admin Prefs, of course.

I know there also is a ‘numposts=0’ query string in the works that might give us the ability to quickly search for these topics, but having a dedicated section (like we have for Latest, New, Starred etc.) shown to all users would be great for folks who use forums as a ‘help everyone, and help them quickly’ portal.

The only other modification I can imagine others requesting for this tab would be to show this only to certain user groups (only staff, for example).

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