Re: Use of Stackoverflow for Question/Answer forum

[Federico Bruni]

2014-12-23 8:23 GMT+01:00 Johan Vromans <address@hidden>:

On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 16:52:45 -0600
"Christopher R. Maden" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Personally, I *like* the mailing list, because I scan the discussion
> going by, even when it’s not currently relevant to me, and often
> something rings a bell later when I need it.

Exactly.

The list is a 'push' model interaction. SO and other forums are 'pull' - I
need to visit them and ask for questions.

I'm subscribed to 50+ forums, and 20+ mailing lists. It would take
hours just to visit all forums. Browsing the messages from the mailing lists
takes minutes.

As I wrote minutes ago, you can set also some "push" options.
You can subscribe to the lilypond tag and get notifications when someone posts a question tagged with lilypond:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/lilypond

You could even receive notifications only for specific topics.

Let's say that you are interested in tablature notation only. Instead of receiving all the emails in this mailing list and filter out all that you don't care, you'd receive only what you're really interested in and can provide help. And you don't need to set up two mailing list for them.

Just an example...

 

Also, most of the time SO pisses me off with "search the archives" or
"message deleted" :( .

I've not much experience with SO but I guess that you can set some options to disable these messages.

 

> If everyone who thinks SO
> is better uses it... then eventually, it’ll become the place to go.

For the time being I consider the list very high quality, friendly, and to
the point. I'll stay.

Me too :)

But I want to keep an eye open on any better alternative, as my time is getting more and more limited and I don't know if I'll be able to stay in this list in the long term.