Re: Meta: help, devel and stackoverflow

On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 5:02 PM, T J <tjhnson <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 1:50 PM, srean <srean.list <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Anecdotal data-point:
>> I have been  happy with SO in general. It works for certain types of
>> queries very well. OTOH if the answer to the question is known only to
>> a few and he/she does not happen to be online at  time the question
>> was posted, and he/she does not "pull" such possible questions by
>> key-words, that question is all but history.
>>
>> The difference is that on a mailing list questions are "pushed" on to
>> people who might be able to answer it, whereas in SO model people have
>> to actively seek questions they want to answer. Unanticipated, niche
>> questions tend to disappear.
>
>
> Isn't that what the various sections are for?
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions?sort=newest
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions?sort=unanswered

also by tag
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/scipy?sort=unanswered&pagesize=50

sparse knowledge is scarse

Josef