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The SO community can be pretty toxic with newcomers that don't ask questions in the "one true way". I can get away with asking questions because I know what will work, but that doesn't make the site friendlier. Also, God forbid you ask anything that can be considered "opinion based"...

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>Also, God forbid you ask anything that can be considered "opinion based"...

It's clearly not allowed. People shouldn't be surprised when their answer gets closed. The goal of stack overflow is to build a quality mapping from questions to answers. There is no way to map a subjective question to an answer.

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Opinion based exists in a spectrum. I'd expect the mods to error on the side of not closing questions and letting the discussion continue. However, there are very active mods that take them as gospel and will take any chance they get to enforce them to their most strict interpretation.

A heavily policed community is not a welcoming one.