This is a direct reply to [Grace Note's recent CR review](https://codereview.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/991/how-is-code-review-doing-right-now?cb=1), more precisely the following part: (emphasis mine) ><h3>Unanswered</h3> >Tying in to all of the above is one of the most pressing concerns about the site I had in my own review, which is the gigantic pool of unanswered questions. There are, at the time of this writing, **1237 questions without any upvoted answers**, a whopping 1010 of which have absolutely no answers at all. **That’s over 10% of the site’s questions**, sitting untouched and barely considered to be alive. These questions range from the site’s birth in 2011 all the way to modern day 2013. **About 25% of these questions result in users never returning after a week**, from a rudimentary query. >This isn’t a small number. **This is a huge chunk of the site that’s basically just a black hole of despair**, swallowing everything without giving anything back. And there’s a simple enough fix to this - clean up the unanswered questions. A large amount of what I see from these is questions that get a fair amount of comments back-and-forth when first asked, but then the entire dialogue is dropped and no one on either side follows up. **The questions essentially become abandoned, _not unlike the ultimate fate of this site_ if people don’t keep up**. Ladies & gentlemen, we have a problem. Let's fix it - that's what we do best, isn't it? ----------------- Go to the **Unanswered** questions: there's a counter there, showing the number of questions with no upvoted answers. Select the [*my tags*](http://codereview.stackexchange.com/unanswered/tagged?tab=mytags) tab and **VOTE:** <sub>(yes I have very few favorite tags - I'll fix that very soon)</sub> ![unanswered questions in your tags][1] ----------------- Select the *no answers* tab and **post an answer somewhere** - we have to bring this number down, ASAP - this is the *whopping 1010* Grace is talking about: ![questions with no answer at all][2] ----------------- Monitor the **1,237 questions without any upvoted answers** figure from Grace's post on the *votes tab*: ![all unanswered questions][3] ----------------- <h3>Your ammunition: 40 votes per day, unlimited answers.</h3> <H2>Every unanswered question is a zombie. Every unvoted good answer is a target.</h2> <H1>Ready? **GO!**</H1> --- ### Mission Status: >This section tracks the metrics at regular intervals, at or around 12:00AM UTC. Each week is divided in 3 rounds (3-2-2 days), where the number of *Questions with no answers* /zombies and the number of *Questions with no upvoted answers* /targets at that point in time, is used to calculate the net score for that round; the net score is then divided by the number of days in the round. >It's important to understand that those are **net** figures; they include **incoming zombies** so they are inherently skewed (downwards). We'll get a **much** better picture once the *data explorer* allows us to dig up our own data. I'm including the total number of incoming zombies at the end of the week, under the *debrief* section. >Incoming zombies are acquired by searching for questions [here](http://codereview.stackexchange.com/search) "is:question created:yyyy-MM-dd" - **Round 0** (Grace's observations): - **1,010** Questions with no answers - **1,237** Questions with no upvoted answers - CR is 88% answered ----------- ##Week 1 - **Round 1** (2013-11-19 / 3 days): - **969** Questions with no answers (-41 | **13.7/day**) - **1,113** Questions with no upvoted answers (-124 | **41.3/day**) - **54** incoming - **Round 2** (2013-11-21 / 5 days): - **918** Questions with no answers (-51 | **25.5/day**) - **1,045** Questions with no upvoted answers (-68 | **34.0/day**) - **41** incoming - **Round 3** (2013-11-23 / 7 days): - **911** Questions with no answers (-7 | **3.5/day**) - **1,008** Questions with no upvoted answers (-37 | **18.5/day**) - **31** incoming ###Debrief: - **99 zombies down** | 14.1/day - **229 targets hit** | 32.7/day - **126 incoming zombies** | 18.0/day - **Milestone:** CR is now 90% answered --------- ##Week 2 - **Round 4** (2013-11-26 / 10 days): - **884** Questions with no answers (-27 | **9.0/day**) - **972** Questions with no upvoted answers (-36 | **12.0/day**) - **53** incoming - **Round 5** (2013-11-28 / 12 days): - **868** Questions with no answers (-16 | **8.0/day**) - **944** Questions with no upvoted answers (-28 | **14.0/day**) - **48** incoming - **Round 6** (2013-11-30 / 14 days): - **862** Questions with no answers (-6 | **3.0/day**) - **905** Questions with no upvoted answers (-39 | **19.5/day**) - **41** incoming ###Debrief: - **49 zombies down** | 7.0/day - **103 targets hit** | 14.7/day - **142 incoming zombies** | 20.3/day - CR is now 90.9% answered *Lock & Load people, Lock & Load!* ---------- ###As of 2013-12-04 04:25 UTC... **Status is 843 <del>unanswered questions</del> zombies, and 857 with no upvoted answers.** #That's something to be proud of. Thanks to all who participated!! I call that *mission accomplished*. What's next? - Guess: ![enter image description here][4] 843 zombies is still 843 zombies too many... keep answering!! --- **As of 2013-12-18**, the number of remaining zombies dropped by another 100. We now stand at 743 zombies, and 785 without upvoted answers. **CR is 93% answered**. **As of 2014-02-02**, we now stand at 754 zombies. **CR is 94% answered**. [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/ri5hC.png [2]: https://i.sstatic.net/DWbKh.png [3]: https://i.sstatic.net/f88wT.png [4]: https://i.sstatic.net/x9bB6.png