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What about measuring number of upvotes on questions closed as not constructive /not about programming? I get the feeling that the technical questions are gettin

What about measuring number of upvotes on questions closed as not constructive /not about programming? I get the feeling that the technical questions are getting saturated, and that the community moved towards more soft issues (management, people skills etc). But soft issues get rejected. Perhaps start softie-programmer.com? At least do something other than closing them.

evincarofautumn 14y ago
programmers.stackexchange.com is for more subjective issues related to software development, but things are still expected to follow the Q&A format.
codinghorror 14y ago
Well, there is: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/ http://programmers.stackexchange.com/ -- for conceptual, no-source-code whiteboard programming questions http://workplace.stackexchange.com/ http://workplace.stackexchange.com/ -- for questions about general professional workplace issues that aren't specific to programming And of course the rest of the sites at http://stackexchange.com/sites?view=list#traffic http://stackexchange.com/sites?view=list#traffic I'll be the first to tell you that our Q&A engine isn't necessarily effective at every topic. It's primarily effective at technical-ish topics where there can be somewhat definitive answers backed by a bit of research. That's still a pretty big chunk of the world, e.g.: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-su...
- TylerE 14y ago
  My fundamental problem with that approach is that I don't want to read 5 sites. I want to read 1 site with the content I want on it. The ghettoization of stack-exchange was a mistake. Give me an interface more like reddit - let me pick which areas I want to see questions from, all merged on to one page.
  - codinghorror 14y ago
    Do you visit only one site on the Internet? I just wonder how far you're willing to go here, because the beauty of the internet, to me, is that there are zillions of sites on lots of different topics.
    - TylerE 14y ago
      As time goes on, the number has certainly decreased. Look at how popular rss ands sites like reddit are. In fact, in terms of my actual daily "rotation" of sites, there are exactly 3: Reddit, HN, and Gmail. I absolutely want to visit less sites. Stack-Exchange as a product for me would have significantly more value to me as an integrated network, rather than the current mish-mash of partitioned off sites. Let me search all questions, let all questions (in tags I don't have filtered, and of subject areas I've added) appear in my questions list.
  - cruise02 14y ago
    Here you go http://stackexchange.com/questions http://stackexchange.com/questions Click the "Filtered Questions" link at the top to customize it.
    - TylerE 14y ago
      Hrrm, that's a start. Any way to get this in the SO theme? I like that lot more than the SE layout.
      - cruise02 14y ago
        No, I don't think I've ever seen any official support for customizing themes. There is the Hot Dog theme for SO (http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/34939/1288 http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/34939/1288) that you might be able to use as a starting point for a custom user theme.
        TylerE 14y ago
        Sorry, should have been more clear. What I really meant was having things like the score, number of answers, etc, in nice big numbers next to the question.
asymmetric 14y ago
I love SO and the SE network, but I have to admit that far too many interesting questions get closed on SO for being too broad or not having a specific answer. I understand that they want SO to be a fact-based QA site, but sometimes I find myself looking at a very interesting, closed SO question and wishing it hadn't been closed. That, and the fact that the SO/Programmers distinction is rather confusing and unnecessary in my opinion.

evincarofautumn 14y ago

programmers.stackexchange.com is for more subjective issues related to software development, but things are still expected to follow the Q&A format.

codinghorror 14y ago

Well, there is: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/ http://programmers.stackexchange.com/ -- for conceptual, no-source-code whiteboard programming questions http://workplace.stackexchange.com/ http://workplace.stackexchange.com/ -- for questions about general professional workplace issues that aren't specific to programming And of course the rest of the sites at http://stackexchange.com/sites?view=list#traffic http://stackexchange.com/sites?view=list#traffic I'll be the first to tell you that our Q&A engine isn't necessarily effective at every topic. It's primarily effective at technical-ish topics where there can be somewhat definitive answers backed by a bit of research. That's still a pretty big chunk of the world, e.g.: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/ http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-su...

TylerE 14y ago
My fundamental problem with that approach is that I don't want to read 5 sites. I want to read 1 site with the content I want on it. The ghettoization of stack-exchange was a mistake. Give me an interface more like reddit - let me pick which areas I want to see questions from, all merged on to one page.
- codinghorror 14y ago
  Do you visit only one site on the Internet? I just wonder how far you're willing to go here, because the beauty of the internet, to me, is that there are zillions of sites on lots of different topics.
  - TylerE 14y ago
    As time goes on, the number has certainly decreased. Look at how popular rss ands sites like reddit are. In fact, in terms of my actual daily "rotation" of sites, there are exactly 3: Reddit, HN, and Gmail. I absolutely want to visit less sites. Stack-Exchange as a product for me would have significantly more value to me as an integrated network, rather than the current mish-mash of partitioned off sites. Let me search all questions, let all questions (in tags I don't have filtered, and of subject areas I've added) appear in my questions list.
- cruise02 14y ago
  Here you go http://stackexchange.com/questions http://stackexchange.com/questions Click the "Filtered Questions" link at the top to customize it.
  - TylerE 14y ago
    Hrrm, that's a start. Any way to get this in the SO theme? I like that lot more than the SE layout.
    - cruise02 14y ago
      No, I don't think I've ever seen any official support for customizing themes. There is the Hot Dog theme for SO (http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/34939/1288 http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/34939/1288) that you might be able to use as a starting point for a custom user theme.
      - TylerE 14y ago
        Sorry, should have been more clear. What I really meant was having things like the score, number of answers, etc, in nice big numbers next to the question.

asymmetric 14y ago

I love SO and the SE network, but I have to admit that far too many interesting questions get closed on SO for being too broad or not having a specific answer. I understand that they want SO to be a fact-based QA site, but sometimes I find myself looking at a very interesting, closed SO question and wishing it hadn't been closed. That, and the fact that the SO/Programmers distinction is rather confusing and unnecessary in my opinion.