Expert: Katie - 1/17/2007

Question
Hello,

It seems like you recently removed those questions from the "recently answered questions" that one did not answer, but reject for some reason or another.

I am an expert for physics and I get a fair amount of homework questions, which I reject most of the times. But sometimes I reject a question that was just a verbatim textbook problem, that later (upon a further question by the questioner) turns out to have been a bona fide inquiry for understanding. Until recently I could "post a follow-up" to my answer (which actually was a reject), and thus correct the situation. Now this track is blocked and if the questioner does not identify his question again, I also have no way of associating his plea with a question, since in the question e-mails the questioner's name is not given.
(And for the archives it would be better to answer to the original question and not to a "this was no homework question - please reconsider" statement.)


Perhaps you can add "recently rejected questions" to the expert menu, or something similar?


Peace,
Kevin

Answer
Hi, Kevin.

Thanks for making me aware of this. I will see what our development team can do. In the meantime, if are you trying to respond to a particular question, please send me the subject and the asker's name so I can add it back to your pending questions list.

Thanks,
Katie