Why do unanswered questions have so many views?

[petronius]

Is that you guys browsing through trying to decide which to answer, or do people come in here and click on "Question submitted by so-and-so" dozens of times even though it's clear there will be nothing to see?

:shrug:

[EarlG]

1. I don't know...

We prefer to answer as many questions in one go as possible because if we come in here and answer one at a time then the people we don't answer might think we're ignoring them. But usually we need a chunk of time to answer all the questions. During times when we don't have a chunk of time to answer everything we will sometimes skim through to see if there is anything particularly pressing. I doubt that would account for dozens of views though, so I guess your latter suggestion is possible.

Edited to add: I was just reminded that the moderators can also read questions in ATA before they are answered by the Admins, so they can give us any additional information about a particular question if they think it's necessary. So some of those additional views you are seeing come from the mods.