On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: > This should be at the "User support: beyond forums or lists" thread but I > hesitate to confuse other ways of reading this list that don't like title > changes (and I am using reply to have previous material attached - I might > try forward instead on some occasion). > > I have been running a filter on StackExchange sites long enough to have some > hits with new posts that use the openoffice.org tag. > > Experience: > > I can get from the filter notice to the StackExchange post by direct link. > I can post an answer or, more likely, a request for details/clarification > once there. > > However, there is no way to track an individual post. So to see if there > has been any activity on the post once it is non-knew, I have to manually go > look. I can do that by saving the original notice in a folder of ones to > review at some point. (There is a list of answers I've posted in my profile, > but it is not organized for use in this manner.) > > Not very appealing in attempting to maximize my cycles available for > actually providing forum support. >
One thing to note about Stack Exchange is that more capabilities are made available to you based on how many points you've earned. So it is tricky to tell, by casual review, what features might be available to a deeply-involved moderator. > - Dennis > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 13:15 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [email protected] [Was: Re: [Discussion] [email protected]] > > Drew, > > I didn't realize the imbalance between using the tag and mentioning without > the tag was that lop-sided. > > By the way, there is also > <http://superuser.com/search?q=openoffice.org>. > > Things that can be done with StackExchange sites already include having an > RSS feed of posts and also email subscriptions (though I remember shutting > that off once I was overwhelmed). Apparently one can subscribe by tag. > > I did that. I set up a query that uses the openoffice.org tag (I was not > brave enough to use the search term instead but I did specify all sites) and > I will receive e-mail notifications. > > We'll see if those make it easy to go to the question, review, and respond. > > - Dennis > > -----Original Message----- > From: drew [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 11:51 > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [email protected] [Was: Re: [Discussion] [email protected]] > > On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 08:01 -0700, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: >> It looks to me as if we need to be following the openoffice.org tag on >> StackOverflow. They have over 1200 items, and there is an openoffice.org >> tag/category although it is not always used. > > Hi Dennis, > > Sadly, not so - the link I showed was a simple string search for > OpenOffice and it returns a good number of items that nearly mention the > application but are not about it. > > Items tagged as OpenOffice-x numbers (over a 2 year span) > OpenOffice.org 326 total > openoffice-calc 84 total > openoffice-wrier 51 total > openoffice-impress 12 total > openoffice-base 2 total > openoffice-basic 0 total > open-office 26 total > > <snip> > > //drew > >
