I'd recommend listening to StackExchange's podcast (http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/podcasts/); http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/podcasts/); They a

I'd recommend listening to StackExchange's podcast (http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/podcasts/); http://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/podcasts/); They always discuss this problem, and I think the choice they made (be strict on rules) is a good one for the type of platform and community they wanted. Basically: if you wanted to discuss a vague subject that doesn't have a limited set of possible answers, you should probably use a discussion board instead of using a stackexchange website. That's part of the reason why Jeff Atwood left to create Discourse.