Timeline for Which types of "programming related" questions are appropriate?
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| Nov 13, 2009 at 21:30 | comment | added | David Thornley | The 3K+ community can also adjust itself, I suppose, so should I propose anything that doesn't get closed is appropriate? | |
| Aug 5, 2009 at 2:53 | history | migrated | from stackoverflow.com (revisions) | ||
| Jun 13, 2009 at 22:42 | comment | added | RBarryYoung | Yes, we certainly don't want anyone thinking outside the box. Or thinking of getting outside the box. Or even thinking of the outside of the box. | |
| Feb 24, 2009 at 18:02 | comment | added | m4bwav | The system is not close to perfect. The problem is that without rules or guidelines the system or "community" just descends into anarchy, turning it into a programming culture site, rather than a programming Q&A site. Wikipedia wouldn't be useful if it didn't have these types of guidelines. | |
| Oct 12, 2008 at 18:27 | comment | added | Brian Boatright | my 2cents are that IT is in the programmer area and should be allowed within reason. obviously we don't want help desk questions on SO but really so what. Why can't there just be a robust category/tag system and let it play out. this Q of Q's seems just like the stupid war on drugs. | |
| Oct 12, 2008 at 12:39 | comment | added | Thomas Owens | Some people like the most stupid stuff you can imagine. See Digg and/or Reddit. I don't want SO (at least the main SO, if there are ever subsections) to become a new Digg or Reddit. | |
| Oct 12, 2008 at 12:11 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | "The community will adjust itself" the irony is that we ARE talking about the community adjusting itself. I believe there are systems complementary to voting that work in parallel with it, particularly for users the system has grown to trust. | |
| Oct 12, 2008 at 8:28 | history | answered | Mike Stone | CC BY-SA 2.5 |