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Yep.. that's the site. Used to allow all questions and even jokes. It was laid back and then it became a "that's not the right question." type of place. I miss

• adamgordonbell 3y ago
  yeah, the very early days when they had 'best programming terms' and stuff like that. That was a lot of fun.
• shagie 3y ago
  You can do that if the site remains small. Look over at MathOverflow and TeX stack exchange sites - they have fun questions. The key difference being that there is a much smaller set of people asking questions and of those who are active on the site there is a much higher rate of community moderation. It is easy to moderate a site where you an read every post every day. Not so much when there's no hope of that. The problem is that they aren't fun to moderate and without moderating them you end up with a site that is /r/programmingmemes making it less useful for the programming questions that you want to find and providing a place where people can ask questions of the subject matter experts.