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Give each site a parallel site for polling, recommendations and subjective-ish stuff
Within the Stack Exchange network there have been some recommendations sites proposed, one in beta and one graduated:
Software Recommendations (graduated site)
Hardware Recommendations (beta site)
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Give each site a parallel site for polling, recommendations and subjective-ish stuff
Wouldn't Reddit be the perfect place for things like this? Stack Exchange is for Q&A, not just some other forum.
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How can I encourage Stack Overflow to rein in the 'subjective' vigilantes?
Design questions call for judgement
Very often the kinds of questions of the "how do you design X?" variety call for judgement. Often, that judgement comes with experience. Providing a satisfactory ...
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How can I encourage Stack Overflow to rein in the 'subjective' vigilantes?
I personally sort of agree with you, and I searched this question up before I was going to ask it myself. To me it seems like some questions are unnecessarily closed for the sake of being stubborn ...
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If you voted to close a question and it gets re-opened, you lose 100 rep
FWIW, I agee with the premise, if not the proposed solution.
People are definitely willy nilly voting to close: voting to close on questions where they can and not where they should (for example "...
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