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gertvdijk
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Several things I do or don't do:

  • I have some specialized "expertise" in some areas, such as MySQL in Ubuntu (just one random example). Every now and then I do a search on the site when I feel like diving into MySQL again. Using Google gives me way more relevant search results.

  • I don't use tags because of the enormous amounts of noise. I feel that they don't work very well on Ask Ubuntu. See for example Can we please disambiguate or discourage the 'mobile' tag?

  • The "My Tags" page as Jorge proposed doesn't work for me. In theory this should work - but really, not for me, for several reasons. Lots of them are quite old (> 3 months), tagged erroneously, been-there-discarded-that (still popping up) and worst: gone because of just one upvoted nonsense answer.

  • "Scanning" - Just scanning the plain active list, opening 10+ could-be-interesting-questions in tabs in the background, scrolling quickly and watching for either "easy mistakes" I can easily answer, "interesting" within 3 seconds well written questions, "less than perfect answers to questions" such as Does 12.04 LXDE have LTS? and Can Ubuntu Server 10.04.4 LTS be upgraded to NON-LTS? were. With already one answer with upvotes these were not showing up, yet interesting to answer.

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