Timeline for Questions barely or not related directly to programming. We need handling them.
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| Dec 14, 2010 at 19:32 | comment | added | AArteDoCodigo.com.br - Maniero Mod | I'm not proposed to dump our problems to other SE sites. Bad questions must be closed and deleted, period! Off-topic questions could be migrated to other sites. Eventually some of these questions will be closed on new place, but we can't decide what content is good to other sites. Obviously we need a good criteria to decide when and where dump our good off-topic content. If you follow the discussion on MSO, SO won't dump all of their unwanted content. Many questions will be deleted there. Some unwanted questions will stay there. The questions dumped here could be closed here either. | |
| Dec 12, 2010 at 3:27 | comment | added | Aaronaught | "Subjective" is a poor definition on its own, sure, but really the word is just a proxy for software questions that aren't directly about programming, and those subjects (such as, let's say, architecture or project management) are subjective by nature. So by all means let's define the scope of Programmers.SE in more specific terms, but the "subjective face of Stack Overflow" is perfectly adequate as a quick-and-dirty way to describe the purpose of this site. | |
| Dec 12, 2010 at 3:09 | comment | added | Jason Baker | @Aaronaught - I don't know, but it isn't "stack overflow with subjective questions". Mainly because under that definition, programmers.se wouldn't really have a purpose. I mean there really isn't any reason why stack overflow can't support subjective questions. It needs something above and beyond subjectivity. I'd say the current theme seems to be that programmers.se is for "questions beyond the code". I think that's a step in the right direction. | |
| Dec 12, 2010 at 2:56 | comment | added | Aaronaught | The second paragraph of your answer really seems out of place... I kind of agree with the rest, but Programmers.SE basically is supposed to be "Stack Overflow with subjective questions" - the first line of the FAQ actually says Programmers - Stack Exchange is for expert programmers who are interested in subjective discussions on software development! How else would you define it? | |
| Dec 12, 2010 at 2:23 | comment | added | Jason Baker | @Mark - Wow! It's truly insightful of you to make this many conclusions about my views based on my saying "less anal". Tell me something, I'm confused about my political orientation but I know I believe in "more happiness". Do you think you'd be able to extract my political beliefs from that? | |
| Dec 12, 2010 at 2:05 | comment | added | user8 | @Jason Yet that's what you're asking for. The scope of the site is already defined: software development questions that don't clearly have one right answer that fit within pre-defined moderation criteria (the topic list and six subjective question guidelines as defined in the FAQ). Moderators and community members are beholden to that. You're asking for people to ignore the scope of the site because you don't like it. | |
| Dec 12, 2010 at 1:56 | comment | added | Jason Baker | @Mark - I never claimed to want an unmoderated, general discussion board. I want a moderated, programmer-focused Q&A site just like you. We're just arguing about degree. | |
| Dec 12, 2010 at 1:40 | comment | added | user8 | "Less anal moderators" is not a sustainable topic for a topic-based Q&A system like Stack Exchange. If you want a general discussion board that's mostly unmoderated, try Yahoo! Answers or Quora. | |
| Dec 12, 2010 at 1:38 | history | answered | Jason Baker | CC BY-SA 2.5 |