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