There are actually quite a lot of unanswered questions on UX StackExchange, and I was wondering whether trying to get a feel of why the questions are not answered can provide a way to improve the site and help to either clean up those questions or help get answers to them. Not having looked through them all, my feeling is that they fall between the categories of:
- Not noticed due to wording or tagging, but can be improved by editing
- Not asked in a way that is easy to provide an answer for, or not appropriate for the site but not picked up on
- No one really knows the answer, as it is a more theoretical rather than practical question