From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Le Wang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Helping out users who asks questions elsewhere Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:10:24 +0800 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1314202237 19871 80.91.229.12 (24 Aug 2011 16:10:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 16:10:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Tom Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 24 18:10:33 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QwG2C-0000JV-Ki for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:10:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52706 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QwG2B-0007R7-RW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:10:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:52058) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QwG26-0007QR-QD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:10:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QwG25-0000bG-ED for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:10:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-qw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.216.41]:57517) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QwG25-0000bB-Bx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:10:25 -0400 Original-Received: by qwd6 with SMTP id 6so1026631qwd.0 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:10:24 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=r6TAbskAIaYjWE2YjvHi2mMKF18qQzoqqYX1AN865AM=; b=rnEXEFygrshlhnXq5zPW/OF/QOlHlqZwqPF++Xc2NIgMa4AJy4vhV7+l7zEtThtJRn uDSp5qAvsLljKn3pG3Ft2JhK3k2hdbkns1CuYBlOqMrkCBC1WKshB7uciZwJY1z+OlSU u1tEfyLKW6pTuE816rs3GJ7i0nYvCWFGs1Iz4= Original-Received: by 10.224.17.131 with SMTP id s3mr3382790qaa.393.1314202224585; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:10:24 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.224.173.68 with HTTP; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 09:10:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.216.41 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:82047 Archived-At: I've felt StackOverflow creep up on me from all sides for a while now. In my heart, though, I've been skeptical of the whole Q/A website thing, and what their plans are to monetize the content, so I've resisted StackExchange in deference to the canonical Emacs help forum (this). However, I learned recently that StackOverflow and StackExchange were started by Joel Spolsky (a name you should know if you're in software). After watching the google tech talk by Joel, I think I can trust it. The site is a lot better than a mailing list for answering specific questions. The right answer bubbles up through voting, so you don't have to dig through the whole thread. And anyone can edit answers if they spot a bug. Like a wiki with voting. On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 12:34 AM, Tom wrote: > If you are in the mood the help out other Emacs users, but there > are no open questions here then you can check the open > questions on StackExchange: > > http://stackexchange.com/filters/19474/emacs-questions?sort=newest > > > The questions which don't have a gray box around the answer count > have no accepted answer, so even if a question has an answer > you can add your own answer to improve on the previous answers. > > Registration is not required to answer questions. > > > > -- Le