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Some of my similar architecture questions were closed by Mods. I don't know where one can ask such questions?

by pknerd 14y ago

eduardordm 14y ago
you could try quora
brutuscat 14y ago
Yes, I was asking the same thing. Too bad that we can't use SO to discuss things. HN is good, be the feedback here is not that technical. What I ended up doing is to cross-post the questions in some mailing list/groups that are slightly related to the topic (celluloid, any active ruby/my-lang group).
gtt 14y ago
I often see well-thought and well formulated architecture questions to be closed on SO. Why do mods do such thing?
- DanBC 14y ago
  The SE sites have a strict rule - only questions of a certain type are allowed. That's a good rule. It means SE can focus on that thing. But it's a great shame that the huge knowledge of the SE sites is locked in that format. There's quite a lot of heat generated around the fuzzy borders of acceptable and unacceptable borders, and having a question closed or deleted doesn't feel good. Meta is death. I kind of agree, yet SE does have active meta. SE also has chat stuff. So, would it really kill them to have "freeform SE question site"? It could be a paid feature (although recommending people buy a sub to post a question would cause all kinds of furore). Thus, you'd have: http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/ http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/ http://meta.gamedev.stackexchange.com/ http://meta.gamedev.stackexchange.com/ *http://freeform.gamedev.stackexchange.com/ http://freeform.gamedev.stackexchange.com/ It would still have strict rules, and mods, and etc. But it would allow more open form discussion. They might need to have a different structure to allow threading and better replies?
  - RossM 14y ago
    One of the objectives of SE is to build a vast Q&A, which relies on the assumption that all questions can be definitively answered. There's typically no canonical solution to design/architectural questions (there can be many solutions, with varying degrees of quality). Because of this, http://programmers.stackexchange.com http://programmers.stackexchange.com exists, which is a site that allows more free-form questions.
codegeek 14y ago
"I don't know where one can ask such questions?" May be start a SO type site which focusses specifically on Artchitectural how-tos ? Like "How to design a real time trading system", "how to design a supply/chain software" etc. What do you think ?
- tkahnoski 14y ago
  I think the How To format might be too limiting as their are many possible answers. A wiki format with embedded diagramming targeted at architecture would probably suffice once you arrive at some standard for page structure. This small toolset could also elaborate various business models and business processes as well.
- wagerlabs 14y ago
  http://quant.stackexchange.com/ http://quant.stackexchange.com/

Some of my similar architecture questions were closed by Mods. I don't know where one can ask such questions?

by pknerd 14y ago

Some of my similar architecture questions were closed by Mods. I don't know where one can ask such questions?

eduardordm 14y ago

you could try quora

brutuscat 14y ago

Yes, I was asking the same thing. Too bad that we can't use SO to discuss things. HN is good, be the feedback here is not that technical. What I ended up doing is to cross-post the questions in some mailing list/groups that are slightly related to the topic (celluloid, any active ruby/my-lang group).

gtt 14y ago

I often see well-thought and well formulated architecture questions to be closed on SO. Why do mods do such thing?

DanBC 14y ago
The SE sites have a strict rule - only questions of a certain type are allowed. That's a good rule. It means SE can focus on that thing. But it's a great shame that the huge knowledge of the SE sites is locked in that format. There's quite a lot of heat generated around the fuzzy borders of acceptable and unacceptable borders, and having a question closed or deleted doesn't feel good. Meta is death. I kind of agree, yet SE does have active meta. SE also has chat stuff. So, would it really kill them to have "freeform SE question site"? It could be a paid feature (although recommending people buy a sub to post a question would cause all kinds of furore). Thus, you'd have: http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/ http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/ http://meta.gamedev.stackexchange.com/ http://meta.gamedev.stackexchange.com/ *http://freeform.gamedev.stackexchange.com/ http://freeform.gamedev.stackexchange.com/ It would still have strict rules, and mods, and etc. But it would allow more open form discussion. They might need to have a different structure to allow threading and better replies?
- RossM 14y ago
  One of the objectives of SE is to build a vast Q&A, which relies on the assumption that all questions can be definitively answered. There's typically no canonical solution to design/architectural questions (there can be many solutions, with varying degrees of quality). Because of this, http://programmers.stackexchange.com http://programmers.stackexchange.com exists, which is a site that allows more free-form questions.

codegeek 14y ago

"I don't know where one can ask such questions?" May be start a SO type site which focusses specifically on Artchitectural how-tos ? Like "How to design a real time trading system", "how to design a supply/chain software" etc. What do you think ?

tkahnoski 14y ago
I think the How To format might be too limiting as their are many possible answers. A wiki format with embedded diagramming targeted at architecture would probably suffice once you arrive at some standard for page structure. This small toolset could also elaborate various business models and business processes as well.
wagerlabs 14y ago
http://quant.stackexchange.com/ http://quant.stackexchange.com/