is this the first AskMe with no Answers?

October 16, 2006 8:50 PM

I think I'm gonna go 0-fer with this AskMe question. Has that ever happened?
posted by frogan to Etiquette/Policy at 8:50 PM (14 comments total)

I mean, has anyone asked a question and have the hive mind come up totally blank?
posted by frogan at 8:50 PM on October 16, 2006

Most aren't zero, but the 'stumped' tag might be worth looking at...
posted by JMOZ at 8:53 PM on October 16, 2006

Yes, it has happened many times before.
http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/44081
http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/44693
http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/45006
http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/45473
http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/45485
http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/45491
http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/45824
http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/46253
http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/46448
http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/46740
http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/46844
http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/46855
http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/47346
http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/47974
http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/48013
http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/48061
http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/48525
http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/48595
http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/48750
http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/48751
posted by bigmusic at 9:06 PM on October 16, 2006

Yeah, just do a Find for " 0 comments" (with the space in front of the 0) on any monthly archive page. It happens regularly.

I think any post with 0 comments after 2 weeks or a month should automatically get the "stumped" tag.
posted by mediareport at 9:17 PM on October 16, 2006

http://ask.metafilter.com/tab_unanswered.cfm
posted by Rhomboid at 9:42 PM on October 16, 2006

I was so hoping there'd be 0 comments in this thread, too, just to freak frogan out. Ah well.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:11 PM on October 16, 2006

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posted by blue_beetle at 11:19 PM on October 16, 2006

Sometimes for questions like yours, the only real answer would be this:

Your prayers have been answered. The answer is "no".

But the mods would delete such a response in an instant, so there's no point in making it.
posted by Steven C. Den Beste at 11:22 PM on October 16, 2006

I was gutted when this got no answer.
posted by essexjan at 3:20 AM on October 17, 2006

This has happened to me Twice.
posted by Mitheral at 7:43 AM on October 17, 2006

I've had a couple, usually when asking really narrowly focused questions. It happens.
posted by tommasz at 3:11 PM on October 17, 2006

The only comment on my latest question was that I should add a "stumped" tag. Bah.
posted by divabat at 9:34 PM on October 17, 2006

How do you add tags after you've posted?
posted by IndigoRain at 10:56 PM on October 17, 2006

Go into one of the threads you've posted. Look at the top right. You can add and remove tags in the box called, appropriately, 'Tags'.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 11:32 PM on October 17, 2006