My first answer to an OpenOffice.org question that I then tracked has been marked as good by the questioner.
More things about how the StackExchange sites do this. 1. The RSS feed is working but I find that the subscriptions into Internet Explorer and Outlook are not very nice and not too useful. So I switched to my feed reader. That means I must remember to open my feed reader and synchronize from time to time. The subscription will now also show in Google Reader, which is a hoot and probably irrelevant. The feed reader does the right kind of highlighting when there is a new post on the same question, etc. 2. The RSS feed for a single question handles all posts to the question but not comments on those posts. So I did not know, for example, that the author of the question confirmed my answer and commented on my answer accordingly (as well as checking it off as an answer that worked). With the feedreader, I will still have to poll from time to time to see if there are comments and status changes that are not reflected in the RSS. A mixed blessing so far. For the record, here's the question and only answer. The RSS feed is on the bottom right corner of the page (this should amuse Eike and Rob especially, since it is about a feature in OpenFormula that I despise): <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7188541/open-video-file-by-clicking-on-cell> - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 13:15 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [email protected] [Was: Re: [Discussion] [email protected]] I found a way to track individual Stack Exchange questions without having to poll them myself to detect follow-ups and other answers. It is a bit clumsy. But it promises to be easy, and it is particularly easy to stop tracking a question. Every question (topic) on StackExchange has its own RSS feed. I'm not quite sure how to manage per-question feeds, but I will give that a try. It will definitely save me having to keep going to the question and checking on follow-ups and other answers. I'm going to see if this works better in the Windows "Common Feed List" so I can get updates in Outlook (not where I normally manage feeds). - Dennis ABOUT STACKEXCHANGE KARMA It is interesting that there might be a karma difference. Of course, it would be pretty frustrating to not have access to a valuable tool until having run the gauntlet for getting the karma to use it. Being able to follow a post does not seem like one of those things. I checked my reputation on StackOverflow. I have all privileges but 8: - trusted user - protect questions - access to moderator tools - approve tag wiki edits - cast close and reopen votes - create tag synonyms - edit questions and answers (not my own) - create tags I have the other 17. The moderator tools do not have any additional powers related to tracking an individual post. Trusted users do not have any additional powers related to tracking an individual post. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rob Weir Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2011 11:27 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [email protected] [Was: Re: [Discussion] [email protected]] 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 > >
