4 ms·
> Unless an extremely specific concrete answer can be given, a question immediately gets killed Isn't that pretty much SO's explicit goal from day one? Complai
by Shish2k 13y ago
> Unless an extremely specific concrete answer can be given, a question immediately gets killed
Isn't that pretty much SO's explicit goal from day one? Complaining about SO not being a site for open discussion is like complaining that HN doesn't cover celebrity gossip.
- bluecalm 13y agoWell it's not like that. If you tried submitting celebrity gossip here you wouldn't get much traction to put it mildly. On the other hand a lot of blocked questions on SO were very popular, people produced very valuable and detailed answers to them and they (and the questions) got a lot of upvotes. It's clearly a policy of blocking content the community is very interested in. Better analogy would be blocking politics at HN.