SE sites are heavily straightjacketed. There's way too much procedural cruft that makes it very hard to just have a straightforward discussion: arbitrary stand

SE sites are heavily straightjacketed. There's way too much procedural cruft that makes it very hard to just have a straightforward discussion: arbitrary standards of topicality, complex voting mechanics, distinct answer-acceptance mechanics, distinctions between comments and answers, reputation badges, multiple types of reputation scores, convoluted hierarchies of participation privileges dependent on those scores, excessive moderation, etc. By attempting to heavy-handedly shoehorn discussion into a very narrow Q&A paradigm, SE drastically limits the kind of open-ended discourse that makes online communities worth participating in. And the reality is that I can find answers to specific, objective questions just as easily on Reddit or the myriad topic-specific discussion forums across the web, without having to jump through hoops to do it.