RE: emacs stackexchange beta site

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

> > Exactly. Even today one has to follow the emacs tag
> > on stackexchange to get notified of emacs questions on
> > the different sites (SO, Tex, SU, etc.):
> 
> So that will be easier when every thing will be on one
> site.

What gave you the idea that everything concerning Emacs
will be on one site?

> About the tags, we should remember the Emacs tag will
> remain on those other sites

And so will the questions there that are tagged [emacs].
As well they should, as they might also have other tags
(or content) that is specific to that site.

> - as for the Emacs site,
> the tag system will be much more elaborate for
> Emacs-specifics: there will be one Gnus tag, one
> emacs-w3m tag, one Elisp tag, and so one.

Nothing prevents you from adding those tags today.
See Emacs-specific tags such as `font-lock', for example.

> It will be much better for the "follower" and it will
> be PR not just for Emacs but for all those modules as
> well.
>
> > http://stackexchange.com/filters/19474/emacs-questions
> >
> > Adding an emacs SX site just adds one more site to
> > monitor, because I guess it won't be forbiden to ask
> > an emacs question on superuser or tex in the future.
> 
> It won't be. And people will still do it. If it relates
> only to Emacs and nothing whatsoever to for example
> TeX, the question will be moved from that site to the
> Emacs site. The user will thus be notified of that
> site's existence.

Migration of questions across sites is manual.  Just more
bother.  Please consider signing up to help maintain and
manage the overhead you're endorsing.

And your envisioned migration scenario applies only for
questions unrelated to anything else, besides Emacs, on
the given site.  Other questions tagged Emacs might well
be more relevant right where they are.  That's one reason
migration is manual.