From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: emacs stackexchange beta site Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 07:53:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <874mw5q15w.fsf@debian.uxu> <87a95wy73q.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1411139874 29942 80.91.229.3 (19 Sep 2014 15:17:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 15:17:54 +0000 (UTC) To: Tom , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 19 17:17:48 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XUzwS-00054k-Fo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 17:17:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58942 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XUzwS-0006t7-0o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 11:17:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46984) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XUzZ4-000835-L2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 10:53:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XUzYw-0001Xh-8z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 10:53:38 -0400 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:38669) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XUzYw-0001Wk-35 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 10:53:30 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet21.oracle.com (acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id s8JErMrg008665 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 19 Sep 2014 14:53:23 GMT Original-Received: from userz7022.oracle.com (userz7022.oracle.com [156.151.31.86]) by acsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s8JErKLc026089 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 19 Sep 2014 14:53:20 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0019.oracle.com (abhmp0019.oracle.com [141.146.116.25]) by userz7022.oracle.com (8.14.5+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s8JErJF0007362; Fri, 19 Sep 2014 14:53:19 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8.2 (807160) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100026 Archived-At: > > Not clear it's a win overall. >=20 > 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.): > http://stackexchange.com/filters/19474/emacs-questions >=20 > 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. That was exactly my point. And I don't see any great "PR" advantage, personally. Is it so hard for users of SE sites to learn about tags and filters? Especially Emacs users and potential users? If Emacs really needs PR that reaches past an individual's ability to learn how to search for Emacs questions and answers and throws "!! EMACS !!" directly in their face so they'll notice it better, then it's a sad day for Emacs and Emacs users generally (IMHO).