displaying "Unanswered Questions"

Question

There are many questions with many tags that I never heard even the name of before. So, trying to find questions where I hopefully could do some help, I clicked "Unanswered Questions", but what I see are questions which do have answers, and only the OP was too lazy or the answers were too bad to be accepted.

I'd like to see a feature that separates truly "Unanswered Questions" form "Questions without accepted answers". I wouldn't mind if the later (as actually implemented) would be completely dropped in favor of the first.

Answer 1

If you click in the site's search box, you get a sort of drop-down with a short help text showing some of the special search terms you can use for searching for questions or answers. One of these says "answers:0 unanswered questions".

This means that if you want to find questions about, say, Vim, with no answers, you should search for

[vim] answers:0

(Searches for questions tagged with the vim tag, with no answers.)

To search for questions with at most two answers, where no answer is accepted:

[vim] answers:..2 hasaccepted:no

See also the How do I search? page (where things like the difference between hasaccepted and isaccepted are described).

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You can perform a similar filtering of the displayed questions by clicking "Create a custom filter" in the right panel, and then choose to filter by "No upvoted or accepted answers", etc. This also allows you to save the custom filter so that you always have it available in the main page's right panel.