Stackoverflow Is A Difficult Community to Participate In

Re:Stackoverflow Is A Difficult Community to Participate In by dbecker on Sunday September 09, 2012 @03:14AM (#4495193)

StackOverflow has been very clear that they don't intend to be a discussion site. Even if you like subjective questions, that doesn't mean that a site shouldn't be able to specialize in something else.

I like basketball. But I wouldn't expect stackoverflow to allow basketball questions.

This isn't a judgment on the value of discussions... but there are other sites for that.

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Re:Stackoverflow Is A Difficult Community to Participate In by keithpeter on Sunday September 09, 2012 @03:55AM (#4495267)

Asking if a question is subjective may, itself, be a subjective question.

Communities of Practice (Lave, Wenger) are held together by sharing a common repertoire of practices, and opinions. Newcomers may want to explore these shared opinions. SE is obviously not a place where they can do that, so I end up agreeing with your final sentence.

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Re:Stackoverflow Is A Difficult Community to Participate In by yrizos on Monday September 10, 2012 @07:32PM (#4502885)

http://sports.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/basketball ;)

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