Timeline for Change the name of Programmers to something that more accurately reflects the site scope? [duplicate]
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| Mar 16, 2017 at 17:21 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://meta.programmers.stackexchange.com/ with https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/ | |
| Mar 16, 2017 at 17:21 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://meta.programmers.stackexchange.com/ with https://softwareengineering.meta.stackexchange.com/ | |
| Oct 20, 2016 at 21:47 | history | closed | Shog9StaffMod | Duplicate of It's official! Programmers is now Software Engineering Stack Exchange | |
| Oct 20, 2016 at 21:47 | history | edited | Shog9StaffMod | edited tags | |
| Jul 22, 2016 at 22:01 | history | edited | gnat | edited tags | |
| May 27, 2016 at 10:18 | review | Close votes | |||
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| May 3, 2016 at 11:55 | comment | added | Toby | I recently found there is also a CS stack exchange. Add this to SO, SU and the others (e.g. computational science) is there really a need for programmers to continue at all? Are not all questions now better asked elsewhere? | |
| Oct 31, 2012 at 17:49 | comment | added | Dawood ibn Kareem | +1 for "... I believe our name is the biggest reason for the extremely high number of bad/off-topic questions that get asked here, ..." Who could possibly know what the site is about with a name like that? Mess around with the tag-line or the FAQ all you like; you're pushing water uphill with a rake until you do something about the name of the site. | |
| Jun 27, 2012 at 11:08 | vote | accept | Rachel | ||
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| Jun 27, 2012 at 3:22 | comment | added | Adam Lear StaffMod | @jmort253 There's a reason that's not one of the essential questions. It's the wrong question. :) | |
| Jun 26, 2012 at 20:50 | history | edited | Adam LearStaffMod | edited tags | |
| Jun 26, 2012 at 20:49 | answer | added | Adam LearStaffMod | timeline score: 15 | |
| Jun 26, 2012 at 15:29 | comment | added | yannis Mod | @Rachel Actually... ;P | |
| Jun 26, 2012 at 15:25 | comment | added | Rachel | @RobertHarvey Yeah, I think its a bad analogy. You can ask a Programmer about pickles, but nobody in their right mind would ask Software Development about pickles. | |
| Jun 26, 2012 at 15:24 | history | edited | Rachel | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Added edit based on Thomas' answer below |
| Jun 26, 2012 at 15:13 | answer | added | JohnMcG | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jun 26, 2012 at 15:11 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | Do you have any reaction to "Hmm, says 'software development.' I'm a software developer. I'll ask my pickles for software developers question here"? | |
| Jun 26, 2012 at 15:10 | comment | added | Rachel | @RobertHarvey I'm not just referring to "best X for programmers" questions, but also ones about career development, coding help, language suggestions, team interactions, resource/example requests, and many other things that routinely get closed as off-topic. I believe having a site name that isn't a broad user group would help reduce the number off-topic questions that get asked here, because the site name would no longer suggests this is a site about a type of person, but rather about a type of activity. | |
| Jun 26, 2012 at 15:07 | comment | added | yannis Mod | @Raphael You seem to be missing a very important detail: This is a feature request that concludes (?) a six month old discussion. We all had a lot of time to think about all the arguments presented, not just Rachel's. Go read the linked discussion post, and get all your facts straight, please. | |
| Jun 26, 2012 at 15:02 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | @Raphael: Her suggestion is not being dismissed out of hand. It's been discussed extensively over a period of several months, in many forms. Look at her question history. The scope of the sites are very simple: if you are sitting in front of an IDE, ask your programming-related question on Stack Overflow; if you are standing in front of a whiteboard, ask it on Programmers. If you are standing by the water cooler, in a management meeting or any other place, your question is off-topic. That's it. | |
| Jun 26, 2012 at 14:54 | comment | added | Raphael | @RobertHarvey: I have no opinion about what would be a good name and whether a new name can solve the problem. I do think that Rachel's analysis has merit, though, and that people are dismissing it too quickly and for the wrong reasons. Her solution may not be the best there is, but that does not imply that there is no problem. (A side remark: as a less-than-active user of SO and lately Programmers, I have continuously been confused by their respective scopes.) | |
| Jun 26, 2012 at 14:41 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | @Raphael: I didn't say people would read it. "Hmm, says programmers. Wonder if my question fits there? I'm a programmer. I'll ask my programmer pickles question here." Compare with "Hmm, says 'software development.' I'm a software developer. I'll ask my pickles for software developers question here." | |
| Jun 26, 2012 at 13:21 | comment | added | Ryathal | related:http://english.stackexchange.com/q/72520 | |
| Jun 26, 2012 at 13:10 | comment | added | Rachel | @Ryathal I made a request for that too, and it was equally unpopular, although I suppose it could be due to the fact I tried making it very specific. (It could also be that meta users are tried of hearing from me) Also from the feedback received here, I don't think SE would allow such a change. | |
| Jun 26, 2012 at 13:08 | comment | added | Ryathal | apparently the name change idea is unpopular, yet your other question suggests people want change, I think we need another feature request to change the FAQ then since that was other option in your question. | |
| Jun 26, 2012 at 13:05 | answer | added | Ryathal | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jun 26, 2012 at 12:55 | history | edited | Rachel | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 40 characters in body |
| Jun 26, 2012 at 12:18 | history | edited | Rachel | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Edited per Yannis' suggestion in chat |
| Jun 26, 2012 at 12:17 | answer | added | Thomas OwensMod | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 26, 2012 at 12:15 | comment | added | Raphael | @RobertHarvey: I don't think that is true. In my experience, few (new) users read the FAQ before being sent there (after posting). Obviously, users that are active and aware of the site's scope are not the problem here. | |
| Jun 26, 2012 at 11:57 | history | edited | Rachel | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 10 characters in body |
| Jun 26, 2012 at 11:55 | history | rollback | Rachel | Rollback to Revision 2 | |
| Jun 26, 2012 at 8:45 | answer | added | Caleb | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 26, 2012 at 7:50 | comment | added | jmort253 | The name of a site feels much like one of the 7 essential questions, similar to the elevator pitch question. Thus, it seems reasonable that a name change is in order. +1 | |
| Jun 26, 2012 at 7:40 | answer | added | user8 | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jun 26, 2012 at 4:09 | history | edited | Caleb | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Removed "This would be a cosmetic change only." from first bullet. It's not cosmetic only -- the next two bullets describe steps to change the domain name. |
| Jun 25, 2012 at 17:13 | answer | added | user53019 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 25, 2012 at 15:41 | comment | added | Rachel | A name change should not affect how the site is run, but I think it will reduce the number of bad questions that get posted here. A descriptive site name is a big advertising piece, and our name is providing misleading advertising about what our site is for. We advertise as a Q&A site about programmers, but that's not what this site is. | |
| Jun 25, 2012 at 15:35 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | Do what you must. Just understand that fundamentally the name change will not make any difference in the way that the site is run, or the questions that people will ask. It's all about the faq, not the site name. | |
| Jun 25, 2012 at 15:20 | comment | added | Rachel | @RobertHarvey I feel its important because of the number of bad/off topic questions that get asked on here. Its painful to browse new questions to find ones that won't be closed and that are worth answering. | |
| Jun 25, 2012 at 15:19 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | Please don't make another thread about this. The name is not that important. | |
| Jun 25, 2012 at 15:18 | comment | added | Rachel | @RobertHarvey Fair enough, I removed my own name preference from the post. I'd rather discuss what would be an on-topic name for the site in a different thread anyways. (I like the name Programmer's Whiteboard though) | |
| Jun 25, 2012 at 15:16 | history | edited | Rachel | CC BY-SA 3.0 | deleted 78 characters in body |
| Jun 25, 2012 at 15:13 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | "Software Development" is too vague. You'll get all of the people that are question-banned on Stack Overflow coming over here to ask their "write my code for me" and "fix my code for me" questions. | |
| Jun 25, 2012 at 15:06 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | The only name change that I would support is "Programmer's Whiteboard." At least it is suggestive of the site's purpose, and it incorporates the original name. | |
| Jun 25, 2012 at 15:05 | comment | added | Rachel | @RobertHarvey Apple.SE isn't called Orange.SE. It's called something that clearly is not the description of the site's content. | |
| Jun 25, 2012 at 15:04 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | I still think the name doesn't matter. The Apple.SE site is called Ask Different. It doesn't mean anything. | |
| Jun 25, 2012 at 15:02 | comment | added | Rachel | @RobertHarvey Blame Yannis, he told me to make a new post about it | |
| Jun 25, 2012 at 15:02 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | AGAIN?????????? | |
| Jun 25, 2012 at 14:53 | history | asked | Rachel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |