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I thought they were encouraging such questions to be posted on http://programmers.stackexchange.com/ http://programmers.stackexchange.com/ instead.

• icebraining 15y ago
  I don't think so, from the FAQ: You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face. Chatty, open-ended questions diminish the usefulness of our site and push other questions off the front page. Programmers is simply for less focused on code, more conceptual questions.
  • vajrabum 15y ago
    Well then they're missing out. The only time I visit Stack Overflow is when it comes up in a Google search or when it shows up on hacker news with something actually useful and book-markable like this.
• itafroma 15y ago
  Programmers mod here: this is inaccurate, as these types of questions are pretty much off-topic everywhere on Stack Exchange. Programmers is the whiteboard to Stack Overflow's compiler: if you have a specific (emphasis on specific) programming issue that doesn't involve code, it's likely on-topic for Programmers. If it's just a poll of weird/funny/cool/etc. stuff, it's not welcome.
  • optimisticprog 15y ago
    facist moderators who delete the site's best questions make it worse one deletion at a time.
  • smackfu 15y ago
    It's too bad the name is so generic, or that it makes such a fine distinction between programmers and programming.
    • itafroma 15y ago
      I agree it's not intuitive, particularly to those not well-versed in the history of Stack Overflow. For the backstory, when there was just Stack Overflow (and not the network of Stack Exchange sites), there was a large contingent of people who wanted Stack Overflow just for programming problems (and not programmer-related questions, like business concerns, conceptualizing, or lists like these). So the early Stack Overflow population separated everything into "Programming Related" (on-topic) and "Not Programming Related" (off-topic) questions. When Stack Exchange 2.0 launched (allowing people to suggest new sites), one of the sites that launched in the first wave was "Not Programming Related" which was intended to house all the fun stuff that was now off-topic on Stack Overflow. Turns out, having a free-for-all site doesn't work, and the quality was all over the place. So it was retuned into being a site for questions about being a programmer or acting as programmer (so, business or conceptual questions answerable by programmers)—which captured 85-90% of the quality questions on the new site—to Stack Overflow's concrete programming (questions specifically about implementation): hence the name, Programmers.SE.
• pnathan 15y ago
  No, Programmers is for strict Q&A as well. I am on record on meta.programmers.se as disagreeing with that policy.