Possible Duplicate: How to get attention for your old,
unanswered questions  I have seen this happen on SO multiple
times:  As soon as a question is not a simple "what is operator
overloading?" or "what are the hidden features of javascript?"
or something that anyone can answer using google or basic
knowledge, then instead of 10 answers in the first minute, the
question often gets maybe 5 absolutely irrelevant (and sometimes
wrong) answers during half a day and then the question goes away
from the title page and no one else ever bothers to answer.
Like for example here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2614709/patch-an-application
I had to resist a strong urge to downvote all the answers here.
The poster did not get any good response to the original
question because it may not have been phrased very well and
there may have been some points that were not clear - and out of
sympathy+my own interest in the subject, I have tried to
rephrase and focus the question better:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/261