It seems that there are many good questions that end up being closed as "not constructive" because they are open ended or end up being never-ending lists of small answers.  Examples are "[best hidden Eclipse features][1]" or "[good questions to ask during interviews][2]."  Similarly, questions like "what's the best or most popular tool/language to solve a certain problem" can have real value to programmers.  

I think it would be nice if there were a Stack Exchange-like interface to support questions and answers like this.  I could see it working sort of like Area 51's site suggestion mechanism, only much leaner.  

Maybe there could be a way to specify that a question needs open-ended list of answers.  These types of questions couldn't choose an "answer."  Users could submit "micro-answers" that would show up in a more list-like format, and the answers with the most votes would float to the top of the list.  Duplicate answers could be flagged as such.  You'd also need a way to split up single answers into multiple ones when users put too much in a single "answer."


  [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/q/54886/403455
  [2]: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/q/80329/7251