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> There should have been one SO for everything. What could possibly go right about mixing Judaism questions and Christianity questions into the programming que

> There should have been one SO for everything. What could possibly go right about mixing Judaism questions and Christianity questions into the programming questions?

willvarfar 10y ago
Its something I've mulled for years ;) Here's about collaborative filtering: http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/15581427232/self-organizing-reddit http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/15581427232/self-... Here's just general SO discontent: http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/25426541504/stackoverflow-unwinding http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/25426541504/stack... and http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/26580091073/stackoverflow-humour-underflow http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/26580091073/stack... ;)
- reitanqild 10y ago
  The collaborative filtering thing stands out as a really good idea to me. Anyone here who can say anything about the community size you would need for something like this to be viable?
reitanqild 10y ago
Ask reddit. On a more serious note: Stack Overflow started out as a technical site. Questions about programming often crosses the border to hardware or networking. They rarely however cross into theology. I'd be fine with opening a different site for theological questions as long as I could have all my technical questions in one place (and more importantly not having someone move them around.)
borispavlovic 10y ago
Is this a problem with wikipedia.org? Imagine both of these sets of questions tagged as `religion` and you have a common source for all people interested generally in any religion.
- pwdisswordfish 10y ago
  Are you kidding me? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Index/Cases/All https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Index/Ca... Also, there's a very good reason "the dramaboards" are called that.
duaneb 10y ago
There are other options like the subreddit model, where the users define and moderate the divisions themselves.
- pwdisswordfish 10y ago
  ...and where petty factionalism (among other factors) led to the creation of, say, /r/math, /r/maths, /r/askmath, /r/askmaths, /r/learnmath, /r/mathematics, /r/badmathematics... and so on for every topic you can think of.
  - duaneb 10y ago
    Sure. I think that's preferred to the one community going stagnant--math is one of the only areas where that is arguably preferable.
ajdlinux 10y ago
I don't have a problem with separate Stack Exchange sites for topics that are fairly separate, but I do have an issue with the sheer number of computing-related sites - the difference between StackOverflow and Programmers.SE, for example, is a bit arbitrary.
1_listerine_pls 10y ago
They could use tags and machine learning. Have you been to Quora lately? they are a good example.
dredmorbius 10y ago
Well, it might put the fear of God into programmers, which wouldn't be all bad. And the fear of computers into God, perhaps.

> There should have been one SO for everything. What could possibly go right about mixing Judaism questions and Christianity questions into the programming questions?

willvarfar 10y ago

Its something I've mulled for years ;) Here's about collaborative filtering: http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/15581427232/self-organizing-reddit http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/15581427232/self-... Here's just general SO discontent: http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/25426541504/stackoverflow-unwinding http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/25426541504/stack... and http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/26580091073/stackoverflow-humour-underflow http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/26580091073/stack... ;)

reitanqild 10y ago
The collaborative filtering thing stands out as a really good idea to me. Anyone here who can say anything about the community size you would need for something like this to be viable?

reitanqild 10y ago

Ask reddit. On a more serious note: Stack Overflow started out as a technical site. Questions about programming often crosses the border to hardware or networking. They rarely however cross into theology. I'd be fine with opening a different site for theological questions as long as I could have all my technical questions in one place (and more importantly not having someone move them around.)

borispavlovic 10y ago

Is this a problem with wikipedia.org? Imagine both of these sets of questions tagged as `religion` and you have a common source for all people interested generally in any religion.

pwdisswordfish 10y ago
Are you kidding me? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Index/Cases/All https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Index/Ca... Also, there's a very good reason "the dramaboards" are called that.

duaneb 10y ago

There are other options like the subreddit model, where the users define and moderate the divisions themselves.

pwdisswordfish 10y ago
...and where petty factionalism (among other factors) led to the creation of, say, /r/math, /r/maths, /r/askmath, /r/askmaths, /r/learnmath, /r/mathematics, /r/badmathematics... and so on for every topic you can think of.
- duaneb 10y ago
  Sure. I think that's preferred to the one community going stagnant--math is one of the only areas where that is arguably preferable.

ajdlinux 10y ago

I don't have a problem with separate Stack Exchange sites for topics that are fairly separate, but I do have an issue with the sheer number of computing-related sites - the difference between StackOverflow and Programmers.SE, for example, is a bit arbitrary.

1_listerine_pls 10y ago

They could use tags and machine learning. Have you been to Quora lately? they are a good example.

dredmorbius 10y ago

Well, it might put the fear of God into programmers, which wouldn't be all bad. And the fear of computers into God, perhaps.