New Topic - "All"

[Didwot]

The suggestion that there should be an all new questions seciotn has been worn into the ground, so this thought occurs to me.
The AnswerBank computer strores all the questions on some form of database, in the order they are posted, and gives them consecutive numbers. There must be a field called "topics" on the database, and when you look at any topic the mighty AB computer points you to all the questions which match the topics field.
My point is that it would be dead easy to have a topics selection called "all" which would look at all the questions, and because they are in date order the newest ones would be the ones at the top.
I claim the choclate cake, and Dom Perignon award for best suggestion

[MargeB]

Yeah, good suggestion.

Unfortunately the site is funded by  topic (question?) specific ad placement revenue, so ALL may put paid to that. Nice idea though. Come on Ed, stop hoarding the chocolate cake.

[Didwot]

That is a good point. There must be a way around it, but I suppose it would depend on the terms agreed with the advertisers.

[Ralph]

I don't think that'd be a problem. The Google ads on the right work by reading the page contents and supplying relevant ads. If you look, you'll see they pop along a bit after the rest of the page has loaded. They'd get a bit confused on a page with no coherent topic, but when you click onto your chosen question, the ads would become more relavent again.

Chocolate cake for Didwot!

[VINNY100_2]

Didnt ACW have a similar Idea further down the page?

[jno]

the ads are specific to something but it's hard to say what. For instance if you look at a thread near this one about subscribing to questions, you'll see the ads are for Peugeots. The question about asterisks produces ads about jobs and body-building equipment. The google robots have clearly been hacked by the Surrealist International.