Okay, this is getting pretty ridiculous. I see certain other questions get answered within a couple of days and sometimes even within an hour, and yet my question hasn’t been even commented on in an entire week.
On a previous account, people would always comment within moments of me posting telling me I need to provide more information or that it’s not enough information to answer. Then, when I would provide said information, they would just disappear with the excuse “nobody would ever read through that information, it’s too long!”. Now it seems when I just give the right amount of information, people don’t even bother to look at it.
I wish that Unity would at the very least make the Answers forums more bearable for both askers and answerers. Many answerers wish for better systems to allow their answer to be accepted when the asker has not bothered to. Likewise, many askers get frustrated because answerers aren’t compelled to answer any questions that aren’t “hao 2 move gaemobject 1 unit?” because it’s a bigger risk of not being marked as an answer.
Hell, if there was a way Unity could just be contacted and given a link to the answers page, then have someone answer it from Unity, that would be a preferable workaround. The only problem is that the contact pages literally push community pages in your face no matter what, and there’s no way to actually contact Unity with non-sales questions.
It’s really hard to tell the difference sometimes between a bug in Unity and a problem with my own project setup or environment, and it makes it even harder when literally nobody confirms or denies it. Are there really that little people who can plug in an Xbox 360 controller, set up the triggers/dpad on an axis, make a small script to debug log GetAxis(), and just reply saying “On version X it works for me using Y controllers at a time” or something?
Even if someone commented at least expressing they’d like to answer and that they need time to do that, at least that amount of recognition that someone even viewed my post would be great. When I don’t hear anything for a few days, I think people just missed my post. When I don’t hear something for nearly a week, I get the impression that the community is specifically ignoring me for some reason. As I said, some people get answers within an hour, or within a day or two. Either that or they get absolutely no answers whatsoever and the question is left untouched for years.
And just for clarification’s sake, yes I did search other questions to see if other people had my issue and I found abandoned questions from one or two years ago. One of which had no answers, so I asked the asker if they found a solution. The other had the OP answer their own question describing how they worked around it, so I commented and asked if they found something else since I’m having the same problem, yet their solution didn’t fix it for me. Guess how many I got a response on? Neither.
Maybe Unity should force users when they look at a question to interact with it in some way (vote, comment, or reply) before leaving or they lose rep. Maybe then people would stop just reading questions, going “oh wow that’s not a generic FAQ question guess i’ll ignore it”, and then ignoring it.