RE: How to poll the users

[Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>]

> > Also:
> > stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/emacs
> > superuser.com/questions/tagged/emacs
> 
> Right. But these seem smaller

Super User is limited in the number of Emacs questions, certainly (1,643 questions).

Stack Overflow is NOT limited.  It has 16,700 Emacs questions.  emacs.StackExchange has 18,717 questions.  In other words, they are about the same size.  And there's a fair amount of overlap in the kinds of questions they have.

But the number of questions is only one consideration.  Each of those Stack Exchange sites offers a different mix of users.

In particular, the users of those other sites are programmers of all sorts, people for whom Emacs is not necessarily the be-all and end-all of their lives, people who often primarily want to use Emacs for programming.

That's important, I think.  Emacs questions on Stack Overflow may be less oriented toward things like Org mode, image display, faces, etc., and more oriented toward programming.

We want to reach all kinds of Emacs users.  Programmers are a key user group, and many programmers are more likely to ask an Emacs question, or a question that touches on Emacs, on an SE site other than emacs.SE.

And beyond the sites I mentioned, there are other SE sites that have Emacs Q&A, and still others that have Lisp Q&A that is relevant to Elisp.

An SE poll on a site other than emacs.SE should of course be tagged `emacs`.