Helping out users who asks questions elsewhere

Helping out users who asks questions elsewhere

[Tom]

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.

Re: Helping out users who asks questions elsewhere

[Le Wang]

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 <adatgyujto@gmail.com> 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

Re: Helping out users who asks questions elsewhere

[Tom]

Le Wang <l26wang <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> 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.
> 

Here's an other link which shows only the unanswered questions on Emacs:

http://stackexchange.com/filters/19474/emacs-questions?sort=noanswers

There's quite a few, so anyone feeling like doing some answering can give them a 
go.


> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 12:34 AM, Tom <adatgyujto <at> gmail.com> 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