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At the end of the day, chatty, open-ended discussions are not what StackExchange is about. It's a really focused site designed around Q&A on specific, clearly
by cmccabe 14y ago
At the end of the day, chatty, open-ended discussions are not what StackExchange is about. It's a really focused site designed around Q&A on specific, clearly answerable questions.
They may have made some bad decisions but closing this thread ain't one of them.
- danielbarla 14y agoI agree with you, to a degree. StackOverflow is a good example of specific, clearly answerable questions. Many of the SE sites have topics which are, by their very nature, far less clear. Take "the workplace" for example - is anything on that site going to be fact based, and clearly answerable? I don't think so. When you move into topics dominated by softer, fuzzy areas, the applicability of that particular moderation rule also becomes fuzzy.
- hackerboos 14y agoThey should just make a sister site and throw these types of questions on there. Call it StackDebate or something.
- finnw 14y agoAgreed. For every foo.stackexchange.com there is already a meta.foo.stackexchange.com and a chat.foo.stackexchange.com. Why not add idle.foo.stackexchange.com to the mix?
- prodigal_erik 14y agoThere should be such a site, but after http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2473029 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2473029 I don't see them as well-suited or interested in being the ones who run it.