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What kind of setup do you need to have in order to answer questions on StackOverflow? From time to time I think it would be a useful exercise, but it's really
by weavie 5y ago
What kind of setup do you need to have in order to answer questions on StackOverflow?
From time to time I think it would be a useful exercise, but it's really hard to find questions that haven't already been answered. I'm thinking you probably need some form of alerting system to notify you as soon as a question comes in.
- dehrmann 5y agoMost of the questions that get asked are homework questions that were poorly asked and lack much research. "What have you tried?" is a common first comment.
- ggregoire 5y agoYou select a tag, select "Newest" and then manually refresh the page. For instance: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/sql https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/sql On the home page you can manage a list of "Watched Tags". If you add SQL it gives you a bookmark to the page I linked above.
- ggktk 5y agoLooks like they also have RSS feeds (ctrl+f Newest sql questions feed)
- they4kman 5y agoYou can create saved searches, like sorting by new for a tag you're interested in. I don't have email notifications setup, but from time to time I visit my saved search for pytest questions -- which is a subject less inundated with homework questions and more with people trying to do their work, unsure of how to integrate their ideas with a testing framework. Though, some of my most popular answers have come from digging a little deeper on an older question and adding a better write-up, or simply answering a question for a newer version of the technology at hand. When it's a technology you use (or had used) everyday, it's easier to get a sense of the answers you would appreciate if you'd stumbled there from Google
- dyingkneepad 5y agoI have knowledge about an area of computing that very few people in the world know about, and very few people need to learn about it. Very rarely a questions gets asked, but when it does it's guaranteed the question may sit for months without an appropriate answer. When I joined SO in 2012 I went through all the unanswered questions on that topic and was able to give good answers to like 60% of them. Got a bunch of medals. But then never did it again.
- dawson 5y agoWhat was the topic?
- dyingkneepad 5y agoI don't want to say it since this, along with the rest of my message history may be able to identify me. Maybe I need to switch to a fresh account again. Anyway, it's a low-level library that is used by a small handful of libraries that a ton of people use. All hail the easy-to-use abstractions.