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Same here. I feel like StackOverflow after nearly 10 years of closing questions such as 'Which is a better framework X or Y', should be honored at /r/DesirePath

Same here. I feel like StackOverflow after nearly 10 years of closing questions such as 'Which is a better framework X or Y', should be honored at /r/DesirePath. Like at which point do they understand that maybe their desire conflicts with how most community wants to use SO as.

sanderjd 11y ago
I keep waiting to see a competitor take off because it starts by encouraging those sorts of questions, and then secondarily accepts all the other sorts of questions SO does. Of course it's more difficult to start a new community because of network effects, but a decent place to start might be to find a bunch of the popular closed questions on SO and reach out to the questioner and some of the good answerers to come participate on your site instead. If this exists already, I'd love a pointer to it!
- splintercell 11y ago
  Have you looked into Slant.co (https://www.slant.co/ https://www.slant.co/)
drinchev 11y ago
You are right, although sometimes questions pass through the moderators and nothing happens. [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16392260/which-websocket-library-to-use-with-node-js http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16392260/which-websocket-... [2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5062614/how-do-i-decide-when-to-use-node-js http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5062614/how-do-i-decide-w...
Piskvorrr 11y ago
Most of the community? [citation-needed]. Also, I severely doubt that SO === all teh internetz; the premise "if it's not immediately and precisely answered on SO, all hope is lost" is just absurd (and directly contradicts most of the article which sparked this discussion, btw).
froh42 11y ago
With a stackoverflow-like system (rating, moderation, editing of questions by moderators, accepted answer) even such questions would be productive. Subjective ramblings would be voted away, answers showing advantages/disadvantages or similiarities between between frameworks would be rated up. It's just stupid to reduce such a portal to only questions that can be answered by RTFM. Questions that need discussion due to missing information should be voted away, I agree on that. But some allow subjective answers - and those are frequently those that require experience. (What's the best way to solve this-and-that? It depends, in situation a use solution A because, in situation b use solution B because, ...) Such questions typically are being closed by the moderators as well. And frequently the person who asks is not aware of all the factors influencing a solution, so there's a lot of useful information in such questions.

sanderjd 11y ago

I keep waiting to see a competitor take off because it starts by encouraging those sorts of questions, and then secondarily accepts all the other sorts of questions SO does. Of course it's more difficult to start a new community because of network effects, but a decent place to start might be to find a bunch of the popular closed questions on SO and reach out to the questioner and some of the good answerers to come participate on your site instead. If this exists already, I'd love a pointer to it!

splintercell 11y ago
Have you looked into Slant.co (https://www.slant.co/ https://www.slant.co/)

drinchev 11y ago

You are right, although sometimes questions pass through the moderators and nothing happens. [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16392260/which-websocket-library-to-use-with-node-js http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16392260/which-websocket-... [2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5062614/how-do-i-decide-when-to-use-node-js http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5062614/how-do-i-decide-w...

Piskvorrr 11y ago

Most of the community? [citation-needed]. Also, I severely doubt that SO === all teh internetz; the premise "if it's not immediately and precisely answered on SO, all hope is lost" is just absurd (and directly contradicts most of the article which sparked this discussion, btw).

froh42 11y ago

With a stackoverflow-like system (rating, moderation, editing of questions by moderators, accepted answer) even such questions would be productive. Subjective ramblings would be voted away, answers showing advantages/disadvantages or similiarities between between frameworks would be rated up. It's just stupid to reduce such a portal to only questions that can be answered by RTFM. Questions that need discussion due to missing information should be voted away, I agree on that. But some allow subjective answers - and those are frequently those that require experience. (What's the best way to solve this-and-that? It depends, in situation a use solution A because, in situation b use solution B because, ...) Such questions typically are being closed by the moderators as well. And frequently the person who asks is not aware of all the factors influencing a solution, so there's a lot of useful information in such questions.