Timeline for Are you still confused about what Programmers (now called Software Engineering) is for?
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| Apr 12, 2017 at 7:31 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://programmers.stackexchange.com/ with https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/ | |
| Apr 15, 2013 at 13:11 | comment | added | Amy Blankenship | I see questions like #2 closed a lot, which is a shame. I think we as programmers need to be discussing that sites like this are a fantasy-land as far as about 75% of the programming world is concerned and come up with real solutions. So closing them as answered already closes off this discussion. | |
| Mar 9, 2013 at 21:24 | comment | added | Shog9 StaffMod | There's a crapload of overlap between sites, a tradition dating back to the creation of U&L and Ask Ubuntu. Heck, even SO/SU/SF overlap considerably in some areas (you can ask some scripting questions on all three sites and not be off-topic). Progse's scope problems are its own, they're not caused by other sites. | |
| Mar 4, 2013 at 14:42 | comment | added | gnat | @Morons of your list? all that are currently open ones look on-topic. As for why, it's pretty simple, "for professional programmers who are interested in getting expert answers on conceptual questions about software development" just as faq says | |
| Mar 4, 2013 at 14:24 | comment | added | Morons | @gnat what about the open ones? are they on topic? Why? | |
| Mar 4, 2013 at 9:27 | comment | added | gnat | PS. I just flagged "Knowledge transfer..." for wrong closure reason and it has been re-closed as duplicate. as far as I can tell, currently none of the questions you listed are closed as off-topic | |
| Mar 4, 2013 at 6:39 | comment | added | gnat | of questions you listed, "Knowledge transfer..." has wrong closure reason. It's on topic; should have been closed as NARQ or as duplicate of How do you go about training a replacement? | |
| Mar 4, 2013 at 3:34 | comment | added | Jim G. | Why not add a rule that every question must be tagged as one of the topics listed in the FAQ? That's actually a terrific idea; and it might be what it will take to keep some of these questions open. | |
| Mar 4, 2013 at 0:20 | comment | added | user40980 | I was pointing out that the closure of things that were on topic was not for topical reasons (not constructive, not a real question). That things are still open that are off topic (lacking any relation to bullet points in the FAQ) are in the process of being handled. I do not perceive any lack of consistency between the closure for off topic and the questions that are identified. | |
| Mar 3, 2013 at 23:39 | history | edited | Morons | CC BY-SA 3.0 | deleted 4 characters in body |
| Mar 3, 2013 at 23:38 | comment | added | Morons | @MichaelT I'm claiming that the FAQ is not consistent with what is being enforced, creating a "Do as I say, not as I do" atmosphere. (Even if it is a Lazy sunday) My point is that this is a major cause of the confusion. | |
| Mar 3, 2013 at 21:07 | comment | added | user40980 | The semi-adult website has specific people that can be asked - those that cast the reopen vote. The pragmatism question has a vote to duplicate it to another question. The eigenface thing, I'm not sure about at all. Knowledge transfer has a close vote for off topic and at least one flag to suggest migrating it to the workplace. Note that at least two of these were asked on a lazy sunday afternoon when people aren't attached to their screens as closely as during the week and may not yet have had time to address them. Claiming that something is on topic because it hasn't been closed isnt valid. | |
| Mar 3, 2013 at 20:22 | comment | added | user40980 | The "Software agreement for farming" isn't off topic - its "not a real question" as it is difficult to actually determine what the question that is being asked is. The "Best way to test" is closed as "not constructive" as it is a polling question. Neither of these are off necessarily off topic. | |
| Mar 3, 2013 at 19:33 | history | edited | Morons | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 101 characters in body |
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| Mar 3, 2013 at 15:35 | history | edited | Morons | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 186 characters in body |
| Mar 3, 2013 at 15:16 | history | answered | Morons | CC BY-SA 3.0 |