Announcement Please Help & Reply To Unanswered Threads

[Freeloading slacker]

Hello I have an idea that might help with all the unanswered posts. I think it would be good if we said what we were good at answering here, and then if anyone finds a post that hasn't been answered for a while could tag them. So like I'm good at answering most things chicken related but I'm not good at doing incubating. So you would just say what you were good and bad at doing and if someone stumbled upon a post could tag you here.

 

[NatJ]

I've just been looking through the posts and doing the ones that seem easy to me. When I run out of those, I start doing the ones that seem harder but possible. So far, I haven't run out of those.

 

[Freeloading slacker]

Well some posts just get lost and some are also technically a "answered post" but the "answer" was made by the same creator of the post so it's not technically answered. And this way people could tag you on posts that you would specifically be good at.

 

[casportpony]

Down do 9 pages, and pages 8 and 9 are all BST posts.
I'm working on this page:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/find-threads/unanswered?page=7

 

[ronott1]

Down do 9 pages, and pages 8 and 9 are all BST posts.
I'm working on this page:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/find-threads/unanswered?page=7

I am working on them!

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

Darn... I should have copied the list of all the unanswered topics that were a month old, then seen where things ended up with them. Like, how many got a 3rd + more additional replies on their own.

Next time we see a huge backlog of unanswered, I'll do that

 

[Eggscaping]

BYC has been blessed with a HUGE influx of new peeps over the past 3 months, but with all these new members come a LOT of new questions.

Unfortunately a lot of questions have gone unanswered, and this can be a poor experience for our fellow peeps, especially when it happens to brand-new members!

We'd like to encourage everyone to take a moment and look through the Unanswered Posts here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/find-threads/unanswered

... and focusing on the oldest items, see if you can give a helpful and friendly reply to a handful of posts. If every active member chips in a little-bit wherever they can be of assistance, we could have every new thread have a response

In some cases you might have a great answer, in other cases, it might be really helpful to point the person to another thread with answers, and in other situations, it might be beneficial to ask for more details and information that the OP (original poster) left out.

So, take a look, remember what it was like to be a brand-new chicken-owner who needed help, and do your best to "pay-it-forward" by replying to a few unanswered threads!

I will try...I do try to "greet" new posters each day, but can't always answer, as our experience is not the same as some of the REALLY knowledgeable folks on here...since the chicks we have now are our very first. I do feel confident in assisted hatching of chicks only, since I've done that several times now, but that's about it. Oh...and kill all raccoons!

 

[Eggscaping]

I've had this happen to me and it was disheartening when you see how many other threads got quick responses. I try now to respond even when I don't have an answer... I'll at least say as much to help bump the post and let the OP know that they are being heard.

That's a good idea...sometimes someone may post at O-dark thirty in the morning and no one's awake. I may be, but I know very little at this point.

 

[ronott1]

Darn... I should have copied the list of all the unanswered topics that were a month old, then seen where things ended up with them. Like, how many got a 3rd + more additional replies on their own.

Next time we see a huge backlog of unanswered, I'll do that

There were quite a few that picked up after I answered them. It was worth while and am still working on the hatching forum that kathy setup that goes back a year. I get replies from the thread starter on some of those too

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

There were quite a few that picked up after I answered them. It was worth while and am still working on the hatching forum that kathy setup that goes back a year. I get replies from the thread starter on some of those too

Brilliant!!!! Thanks!