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Re:StackOverflow by bostonvaulter2 on Friday March 02, 2012 @02:10PM (#3657881)
> I still love SO, but am sort of discouraged from starting any discussions unless it's a very direct question.

That is by design and the direction that they want to focus the site.

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Re:StackOverflow by icebraining on Friday March 02, 2012 @10:38PM (#3659290)
Yes and no. While they did want to discourage offtopic and open ended discussions, they say in the last podcast[1] that the community itself took on a much stricter approach than they would have - it's probably why old popular questions are now all closed.

[1]: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/03/se-podcast-31-goodbye-...

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