Thoughts/suggestions of unknown quality (feel free to ignore):
You can create a new post, similar to the current “open thread”, and explicitly have every comment there be an “EA librarian” question for reply. You can get this pinned and see how it goes.
You can do the above, but instead of creating a new thread, you can just use the current “open thread”, and have people set an in text marker, e.g. “[librarian]”.
You can get the developers to add a flag or feature to comments, to mark it as a question. I could see different ways of doing this and it doesn’t seem hugely costly. For example, they can clone the “report” function.
The above could work in any comment, in any post, and that seems like a huge win.
I did have a brief look at working out if there was an easy way to scrape the forum but I don’t have much experience with GraphQL and we and the forum team thought it was best to test a more minimal verson of the service initially.
The short answer is that this isn’t hard, and getting you notifications isn’t hard, assuming you have a clear, codified tag or rule for what a question is.
Basically, I know someone with a related project who can set something up for you, that notifies you by email or text message (assuming you have some clear, codified rule for what a question or tagged comment is). If you want this setup, the “lead time” would be about 2 weeks, and would cost nothing.
Anyways, based on your comment, you have already thought about this and have some roadmap/plan that you are executing, and it’s likely the ideas you consider include the above. That should be respected.
All the above are quick thoughts, so just take it or leave it.
Thanks for the reply!
Thoughts/suggestions of unknown quality (feel free to ignore):
You can create a new post, similar to the current “open thread”, and explicitly have every comment there be an “EA librarian” question for reply. You can get this pinned and see how it goes.
You can do the above, but instead of creating a new thread, you can just use the current “open thread”, and have people set an in text marker, e.g. “[librarian]”.
You can get the developers to add a flag or feature to comments, to mark it as a question. I could see different ways of doing this and it doesn’t seem hugely costly. For example, they can clone the “report” function.
The above could work in any comment, in any post, and that seems like a huge win.
The short answer is that this isn’t hard, and getting you notifications isn’t hard, assuming you have a clear, codified tag or rule for what a question is.
Basically, I know someone with a related project who can set something up for you, that notifies you by email or text message (assuming you have some clear, codified rule for what a question or tagged comment is). If you want this setup, the “lead time” would be about 2 weeks, and would cost nothing.
Anyways, based on your comment, you have already thought about this and have some roadmap/plan that you are executing, and it’s likely the ideas you consider include the above. That should be respected.
All the above are quick thoughts, so just take it or leave it.
Great work!