Making it easy for forum users to contribute

GokulNC: <p>@ Forum Admins:<br>
You can install the following Discourse theme-component, which will add a field called “Unanswered” to the forum:<br>
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<p>This component will add a new top navigation link that allows users to filter a topic list by unanswered topics. It was adapted from this post by @Simon_Cossar  Repository link   https://github.com/tshenry/discourse-unanswered-filter  Preview:...</p>

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<p>This will help the new contributors find all the questions that they can answer to start contributing.</p>
<p>The above component will also help to find unanswered questions category-wise (like nlp or vision or c++)</p>
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<p>To emphasize why it might be important, I just did the following search filter to find all unattended queries:<br>
<a href="https://discuss.pytorch.org/search?q=status%3Asingle_user%20status%3Aopen%20status%3Aunsolved">https://discuss.pytorch.org/search?q=status%3Asingle_user%20status%3Aopen%20status%3Aunsolved</a></p>
<p>There seems to be a large number of questions unanswered!</p>

ptrblck: <p>Thanks for the feedback. <img src="https://discuss.pytorch.org/images/emoji/apple/slight_smile.png?v=9" title=":slight_smile:" class="emoji" alt=":slight_smile:"><br>
<a class="mention" href="/u/alband">@albanD</a> added the “solved/unsolved” filter in the main page.</p>

GokulNC: <p>Great, Thanks. <img src="https://discuss.pytorch.org/images/emoji/apple/slight_smile.png?v=9" title=":slight_smile:" class="emoji" alt=":slight_smile:"></p>
<p>But what I had suggested was “Unanswered”, not “Solved/Unsolved”.<br>
The latter requires the OP to mark any response to his topic as the “solution” so that it is moved from “Unsolved”-&gt;“Solved” status, which most do not do. Hence <strong>it is very likely that even answered topics fall under “Unsolved”</strong>.</p>
<p>The former helps to find orphaned topics which doesn’t even have one reply.</p>

ptrblck: <p>Thanks for the clarification. This should be possible, if you use the advanced options, leave the search box empty and select “Where topics - have zero replies”:<br>
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<p>or put <code>status:noreplies</code> in the search box.</p>