[m2m-iwg] Curating Stack Overflow

[T-Rob <t.rob.wyatt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I was browsing through the MQTT and M2M
tags on Stack Overflow and noticed that activity there is growing.  However,
curation of the tags is a bit low.  In MQTT Roger Light and Andy Piper
are closely tied with 28 answers each and the next highest answerer has
3 answers.  In the M2M tag there are 70 questions and the top answerer
has only 8 votes on 2 answers.

If you believe that the Stack Overflow
community is important to MQTT and M2M, here are some tips I've found useful
while I've been growing the websphere-mq tag there.

• Monitor the RSS feed for the tags of interest and be responsive in the tags you wish to curate.  Developers are more likely to ask questions in the tag if they see a high proportion of answered questions and within those a high proportion of answers accepted.
• Enlist the aid of other SMEs to respond to questions.  Same reason as above.  
• Go back answer historical questions that have no answer or a poor answer.
• Vote on questions in the tag.  Developers are more likely to ask questions that they are likely to receive points for.  Tags where questions get many votes get all the love.  Tags where questions get very few votes tend to hear a lot of crickets.
• Vote on answers.  Roger and Andy had many questions with no votes or only 1 vote.  More rep means your curators have more moderator rights in the tag.  It's almost impossible to achieve mod rights in a lightly trafficked tag so voting for each other's Q&A is crucial.  From the tag summary page you can click on the user's score and see all their responses in a tag and then go give them some votes.  (Don't vote for the same person more than 10 times in a day or the votes are rolled back for attempted gaming of the rep system.)

Here are links to the tag summaries:
http://stackoverflow.com/tags/mqtt/topusers
http://stackoverflow.com/tags/m2m/topusers


Kind regards,

-- T.Rob Wyatt
WebSphere Connectivity & Integration Security

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