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I spend most of my SO time in a couple of tags that get very little traffic. I often see questions that are completely useless, but there's simply not enough traffic to get enough close votes to close a question. Sometimes there are no answers, or sometimes the answer appears in a comment.

Is there anything I should do, or should I accept the fact that these questions will linger forever?

A perfect example is this question: http://stackoverflow.com/q/13924647/7432https://stackoverflow.com/q/13924647/7432

This question is about a problem from years ago that was caused by a one-character typo. While others might have a similar problem, they will likely never stumble on this question since it never included an actual error message (read: it will likely never show up in a search)

I spend most of my SO time in a couple of tags that get very little traffic. I often see questions that are completely useless, but there's simply not enough traffic to get enough close votes to close a question. Sometimes there are no answers, or sometimes the answer appears in a comment.

Is there anything I should do, or should I accept the fact that these questions will linger forever?

A perfect example is this question: http://stackoverflow.com/q/13924647/7432

This question is about a problem from years ago that was caused by a one-character typo. While others might have a similar problem, they will likely never stumble on this question since it never included an actual error message (read: it will likely never show up in a search)

I spend most of my SO time in a couple of tags that get very little traffic. I often see questions that are completely useless, but there's simply not enough traffic to get enough close votes to close a question. Sometimes there are no answers, or sometimes the answer appears in a comment.

Is there anything I should do, or should I accept the fact that these questions will linger forever?

A perfect example is this question: https://stackoverflow.com/q/13924647/7432

This question is about a problem from years ago that was caused by a one-character typo. While others might have a similar problem, they will likely never stumble on this question since it never included an actual error message (read: it will likely never show up in a search)

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What to do about useless questions that see very little traffic?

I spend most of my SO time in a couple of tags that get very little traffic. I often see questions that are completely useless, but there's simply not enough traffic to get enough close votes to close a question. Sometimes there are no answers, or sometimes the answer appears in a comment.

Is there anything I should do, or should I accept the fact that these questions will linger forever?

A perfect example is this question: http://stackoverflow.com/q/13924647/7432

This question is about a problem from years ago that was caused by a one-character typo. While others might have a similar problem, they will likely never stumble on this question since it never included an actual error message (read: it will likely never show up in a search)