| Disclaimer: I'm a Programmers moderator. The original version of Programmers was called "Not Programming Related", and it was created as a site for anything and everything that didn't fit Stack Overflow (What's your favourite programming cartoon, etc). What you are describing is actually the current scope, that seems to be working just fine. You're right that questions that fit within the site's scope rarely have a definitive answer, but a definitive answer is not what we are looking for, just a finite and somewhat limited set of good/great answers. Here's a few recent example questions that probably explain what the site's about better than I could ever: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/167305/what-f... http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/165380/how-ca... http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/161568/critiq... http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/162643/why-is... http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/161794/is-it-... http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/159637/what-i... http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/154247/experi... http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/158779/how-ha... http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/155488/ive-in... http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/154733/my-bos... http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/145669/what-s... None of these questions would make it on Stack Overflow, and that's the gap Programmers is filling. |
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Personally, I've found that some of the most interesting and instructive answers have been quite opinionated and not really fact based. Sometimes these lead to (heated) discussions of their merits, which lead to some insights into the various opinions. I would almost say that in software architecture, most areas are gray (and those that are black and white are trivial or uninteresting). It's just unfortunate that these types of questions and answers run the risk of being closed.
What I'm really saying is: I get the need for moderation, and yes, perhaps some questions are not a good fit for the site. But I'd still love to have some place where developers express their opinions and are challenged to justify them.