[yt-dev] Asking questions on StackOverflow

Sam Skillman samskillman at gmail.com
Sun Nov 17 11:17:06 PST 2013


I'd be happy to reach out to the sci comp folks. They field questions for a
few other codes so it may be a good fit.

I'm a +1 on trying it out. It also has the added benefit of a rewards
structure.

Sam
On Nov 17, 2013 11:11 AM, "Nathan Goldbaum" <nathan12343 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Didn't realize one needs very high reputation to create a new tag - I
> guess that makes sense though.
>
> While fragmentation is bad, I'd argue that StackOverflow's high google
> ranking negates that somewhat.
>
> Are there any SO users with high reputations who might be interested in
> creating the tag?
>
> Barring that, the scicomp beta exchange is also probably a good fit.
>
> On Sunday, November 17, 2013, Matthew Turk wrote:
>
>> Hi Nathan,
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 12:01 AM, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I recently subscribed to the [yt] tag on StackExchange.  Now, whenever a
>> > question is asked using this tag on any StackExchange site, I will get
>> an
>> > e-mail about it, just like if a question is asked on the users or dev
>> list.
>> > Currently (as far as I can tell) zero questions have been asked using
>> this
>> > tag...
>> >
>> > If there are a few others who are interested in subscribing to the tag,
>> I
>> > think it might be worthwhile to add StackOverflow to the website and
>> docs
>> > where we describe how to get help and also announce on the user’s list
>> that
>> > StackOverflow is an alternate place to ask questions.
>> >
>> > While this might split the community somewhat - not everyone will be
>> > subscribed to StackOverflow and thus might miss useful info - I think
>> moving
>> > some helpful suggestions to StackOverflow will massively improve
>> > googleability of common yt issues, allowing us to avoid answering the
>> same
>> > questions over and over again.
>> >
>> > It might also be worthwhile to ask and answer some common yt questions.
>>  Off
>> > the top of my head, I think we could at least answer how to load various
>> > types of datasets into yt.
>>
>> In principle, I'm okay with this.  But I have a few concerns --
>>
>> 1) I don't think the tag "yt" can be created unless someone with high
>> reputation does so.  (
>> http://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/create-tags )
>> 2) We have well-defined usage metrics that we can quantify based on
>> mailing list activity, so this may fragment that.
>> 3) Many of the existing contributors and users don't want another inbox.
>>
>> *However*.  SO is really quite good for evolving questions and for an
>> updateable reference.  I do really like that aspect.  But I think we
>> may find ourselves getting a bit fragmented -- in fact, what I see as
>> being a possible outcome is that if yt does end up growing into an
>> interdisciplinary space, we'd see people from non-Astro disciplines
>> using it, but retaining our original core audience here.  All your
>> points really are good ones.
>>
>> I don't know.  Could be awesome.  And, I'd like to see us embrace more
>> modern and useful methods of communication and outreach.  So ... I
>> guess the experiment could be a good one!
>>
>> -Matt
>>
>> >
>> > -Nathan
>> >
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