@AlexanderKonovalov Resolved.

If you type [#274824](http://math.stackexchange.com/q/274824) you get #274824.

@Lord_Farin: Thank you! I had a hope that hashtag-number will be converted to a hyperlink like in the issue tracker I am using. Thanks for the hint, unfortunately I can't edit my post already. Let me try it now - any Macaulay2 users to upvote #96414 ?

@Lord_Farin I guess someone just got irked you were stating the obvious or something :) I think previously we have prepended "This is a CW answer intended to remove this question from the unanwered questions list" and that probably averts some downvotes.

Does the unanswered queue ignore downvotes? That is, will downvotes undo our progress? I would guess not, but I have to ask...

I usually find something to add to my CW answers: another step of computation, sketch of another approach, link to some relevant material. I figure non-crusaders will be more likely to upvote my answer then. (Seems to work: I got 28 Revival badges so far, the most on Math.SE)

@rschwieb Downvote on a question may actually help to process the queue, since negatively scored questions are not included under Unanswered tab. This may be an appropriate course of action when the question is unanswerably vague and the OP failed to respond to requests for clarification.

@ˈjuː.zɚ79365 That's good news then :)

@rschwieb Downvote on an answer may return the question to Unanswered, if the answer goes from +1 to 0. This, too, may be appropriate when it turns out that the purported answer misses the point of the question.

@ˈjuː.zɚ79365 Oh, well that was the main problem I was worried about.

@rschwieb Well, the solution is to write answers that are going to be upvoted rather than the opposite. :)

If a solution truly has "no upvotes" then it makes sense to put it on unanswered

but if it's got a 0 score with combined votes, I don't think it should be on there..

@rschwieb But that's the way the system works. The total score is taken into account. And I don't think it's bad. Sometimes a totally wrong answer attracts an upvote from someone who shares the misconception of the answerer. In such a case, it's reasonable that a downvote reclassifies the question as Unanswered.

Well, it certainly is a good policy to write better answers. It may be a sign that a policy of putting up token CW answers is too weak.

@ˈjuː.zɚ79365 OK, thanks for clarifying it. It definitely matters for our purposes.

@ˈjuː.zɚ79365 Maybe there ought to be two different categories: "No answer" and "No good answers"

But that tab is not sortable/filterable, hence not very useful. The search works better for finding questions with no answers. E.g., [pde] answers:0 finds them in the pde tag. Live example

For visitors to this room: if you have a few minutes and votes to spare, enter your tag of expertise into this query and consider voting on the answers. Thanks!

@ˈjuː.zɚ79365 Sorry, I should have been more clear: I meant I was throwing out the idea that the two categories should be mutually exclusive. You just described a moment ago how they were not.

What about answering #103615? Besides the discussion in comments, it is also linked to #101763