The fact that there are already 2644 emacs tagged questions on SO indicates to me that the community already agrees with you that SO is the place for emacs.

However, this particular question was definitely too subjective: it falls in the "what is your favorite foobar" or "what is the best foobar" bucket. Pulling a couple of recent emacs questions from SO: (paraphrased)

"How do I write an emacs function that uses the current date to create a file?" Emacs function to open file [current date].tex

"What does this 'Warning: cl package required at runtime' mean while compiling a module?" In Emacs, what does this error mean? "Warning: cl package required at runtime"

These are good examples of non-subjective questions regarding emacs as a programming platform and a programming application. Both questions generated good responses and weren't closed. The system appears to be working to me.

The fact that there are already 2644 emacs tagged questions on SO indicates to me that the community already agrees with you that SO is the place for emacs.

However, this particular question was definitely too subjective: it falls in the "what is your favorite foobar" or "what is the best foobar" bucket. Pulling a couple of recent emacs questions from SO: (paraphrased)

"How do I write an emacs function that uses the current date to create a file?" Emacs function to open file [current date].tex

"What does this 'Warning: cl package required at runtime' mean while compiling a module?" In Emacs, what does this error mean? "Warning: cl package required at runtime"

These are good examples of non-subjective questions regarding emacs as a programming platform and a programming application. Both questions generated good responses and weren't closed. The system appears to be working to me.