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Was the Answer Fairy out today?

Norman Abramovitz

Has anyone else noticed today that many of their older answers were marked correct today? I do appreciate it, but I find it hard to believe that everyone woke up today and said ‘I really need to mark those questions I asked about (fill in the blank) as correct. ‘

I do know the Answers system will send out emails, but I as I remember those emails are sent out around a 1 month window or less. I had answers from June being marked as correct. Was the Answers system broken and not sending out those email previously or was it really the Answer Fairy?

Comments

David Toussaint [Communardo]

Atlassian did sent out reminder emails today multiple times (just recieved one for myself) asking the authors, to pick correct answers. Its been a while since I recieved those mail the last time though, unsure if that's been a bug.

Norman Abramovitz

Thanks for responding and letting me know it was real people marking those answers as correct. That does add to my motivation factor to answer more questions in the future.

Radu Dumitriu

Yes, that's the answer. But a bit of care would be nice cause I received this mail for a DELETED question : https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/40049/jira-users-effective-rights-would-anyone-like-to-participate-to-some-pre-alpha-testing

(was not applicable anymore, so I deleted it)

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Whee! I got a nice spike in my karma :-)

Shame I can't mark my two open questions as answered yet. (Although Joe at Atlassian is definitely working on one of them...)

Dennis Kromhout van der Meer

Hey all, I guess I didn't do the best job at announcing this new release, or announcing myself as a matter of fact. I've been hired some time ago by Jeremy Largman to become part of the new Developer Community Champion team. So far, this consists of me, Jeremy and Joe Clark.

One of my responsibilities is to take over the maintenance and development of answers.atlassian.com from Jeremy. I got my first release pushed out the door yesterday, which consists of bug fixes and a couple of new features: 2.10 release changes

To summarize:

Email reminders were broken for a long time, this has now been fixed.
Implemented email notifications for serial non-accepters, this should increase the answer rate, which it obviously did
Search was horribly broken, you can now search again using "Download" or "OnDemand". In addition, search should now be a bit better -- we're continuing to improve Answers search
You can now search based on date
Daily digest is now working and is firing off emails based on your favorite tags
Team Calendars now shows up in the tag wizard

One of the big changes in this release is that if you are a user with over 3000 karma, you can now instaban spammers. You can do this from the user profile and choosing "instaban". This will block the user and remove all questions/answers/comments. However, with great power comes great responsibility so we expect everyone to use it carefully.

I'm excited to work on Answers and we have a lot of awesome things in store for the next couple of months. For future release we'll be be sure to be more transparent of what's going on. We'll put up a maintenance header in advance so you'll be aware if the site goes down. In addition, I'll be updating the Atlassian twitter account in case of downtime, maintenance or releases, feel free to follow it here: @Atlassian

Keep on raising bug/feature requests on the Answers project on jira.atlassian.com, and feel free to contact me personally at dennis@atlassian.com

Norman Abramovitz

So you are the person behind the curtain creating all that Answer fairy dust today!. :>)

I will be presumptuous and say from all the people who answer questions;

Thank You

I look forward to trying out that new Istaban feature when those two spammers show up this weekend.

Harry Chan5

Thanks for the help in moving answers forward too. I was wondering how questions I've answered months ago was suddenly getting replies.

Renjith Pillai

Hey Dennis, great job

One more quick fix, if you can really get it quick: can we prevent the email being fired from accounts which are banned. I receive emails which are spam, but when I click on them it is already removed. I guess it is from a blocked account.

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