I am a developer seeking recommendations for an open source CMS.  I had an age old question on SO with 20+ upvotes asking for recommendations for a book but it was recently deleted for being off topic.  I then asked for my CMS recommendation question on programmers and was told recommendations are off topic but there are other places on stack exchange i could ask it.  I know the basis of SE sites is questions and answers and discussions are discourage but I would like some feedback from the development community about what they have used and that fits my specific requirements.  I am not looking for a discusion or a which is best or to start a forum style thread.  I just want "I have used this it has the following features you have requested, I have also found these other features useful.  Bearing in mind i want to know from a developer's point of view, is there a place on SE that I can ask this kind of question and if so where.
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Stuff like polls, recommendations based on subjective constraints, puzzles, webcomics etc. do not belong on the serious main SE sites, where professionals should be considered at work and having just a few spare minutes ("code's compiling") to answer questions, so they should not be distracted by such things. However, I'd also like to have a home for these things still using the SE engine. For the reason I mentioned before, this needs to be a separate place though. Let's call it four.[sitename-here].com.
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If I have a specific question I want to ask about, but I don't know which Stack Exchange site would be on topic for asking that question, where can I ask where to ask that question?  Is there any generic place where we can ask for advice? Is it here?  This is not about a specific question but in general.  For example: "Where should I ask for advice about fishing?", or if I need to know where I should ask "What would be the best fishing rod to fish for salmon?" (regardless of how good/bad these examples are)
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My feed shows questions from all SE sites, most of which are irrelevant to me.  I'm interested in physics, math, and programming, topics I find served well by the SE model.  There are many SE communities I have no interest in and even get annoyed when I see the kinds of questions and answers posted (ie, opinion based answers that are passed off as truths).    It would be much better if I could manually add each site I'd like to see questions from.
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I am just learning how to program, and I have been using Stack Exchange.  I think it is a fantastic idea for a website, and I think the moderations helps the community as a whole.  However, for someone new to programming like myself, it is hard to ask and answer questions in a constructive way.  I can only answer a small fraction of the questions, and by the time I've written out the code myself, someone has answered it before me, invariably because the problems are hard for me to solve as well.   This is where a Stack Exchange site geared towards beginners would be beneficial to us who are ignorant of asking dumb questions.    I think Meta stack exchange is geared towards conversation, so, what do you guys think?
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In the recent question , the OP asks where the following question would be appropriate:     What would be the best way to approach someone that works for me about bad odor?   CHAOS team member Abby Miller  by suggesting the proposal  &#8212; which is in commitment as I'm writing this &#8212; because     One of the up voted example questions there is about dealing with an irritating coworker. This question will be perfectly on topic for that site.   In my opinion,  qualifies for the not constructive close reason*, which applies to all sites in the network, and therefore, the question shouldn't be allowed, no matter how much it has to do with workplaces.  I know Abby isn't the only one who disagrees with me about this. I once had a talk with a mod of some beta about the presence of poll/GTKY questions on his site. His position, in short, was that his community had different rules from SO and its members enjoyed such questions. I don't remember which site it was, it might even be graduated now, but I never did end up participating there.  Anecdotal examples are nice and all, but here's the real question: to what extent can individual communities/sites override network policies? To what extend should they be able to do so?  *: not constructive comes with the description "This question is not a good fit to our Q&amp;A format. We expect answers to generally involve facts, references, or specific expertise; this question will likely solicit opinion, debate, arguments, polling, or extended discussion."
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Is there a specific area for new users that are new to coding where they can go and ask questions without being blocked for asking a question they may not have the answer to or isn't sure how to correctly ask a question. I know that there is a section for FAQ to try to explain how to ask a good question but for people who are learning and want to get the opinions of experienced coders, it can be hard to come here and ask a question. So again, is there a community that is open to helping new coders that may not always know how to ask the question they are trying to get an answer to?
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I have a coding question with two compilable options. I want to ask which is better and why. Code review, programmers, stack exchange...im not really sure? Where is this question appropriate.   It may be an opinion based question and it may not. I don't really know until I know the answer. Like I said, both ways produce the same results, but I don't know which is the better practice.   What site does this belong on?
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Where should I post question like:     Where can I find books on [some programing subject]?   or      Online sources for learning  [some programing technique]?   ? ? Should it be community wiki? or is it a taboo in the ?
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Earlier, I voted to close  as off-topic.  The question has since been closed.  There is an , but it didn't show up in the list when I selected "off-topic".  The options were:   Meta Stack Overflow Server Fault Super User Webmasters Programmers   Questions:   Should Wordpress appear in this list? Are there any other sites that should appear in the list?   Should all non-beta sites appear in that list by default?
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The downside... It seems like the type of question that would be a duplicate - but I don't see any, so I'll ask anyway. I'm finding it difficult to not visit Stack Overflow for any significant amount of time. I wake up in the morning, and check Stack Overflow at 5:30 am. I check it before I close my laptop to head off to work. I check it when I connect at the office. I check it throughout the day. How do I break the combination? The upside... I have explored more methods of accomplishing tasks than ever before after having registered here and viewing some questions. I've been introduced to many new tools, practices, and theories about development that I can honestly say make me more confident as a developer.
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I am posting this question just to get a better understanding of the questions that can be asked on Stack Overflow.  I find that  can several answers based on users opinion and cause a discussion.  Why is this a good question when several other requests for books and tutorials are not acceptable?
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I'm participating in the  and wanted to refer to the on- and off-topic questions on the  proposal.  However, I couldn't find a link to it anywhere in the SE site.  If I'm not missing the obvious, could we have one?
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Stack Overflow doesn't really support questions that do not have a specific answer, such as "What are the features you would want in a programming language that are lacked by most programming languages?". Is there a Stack Exchange site or other external site specifically made for this?
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Where do I ask opinion based questions on Stack Exchange? Why can't we have a stack-exchange that works like Quora? There has been a lot of research based on people's opinion. I think it is really not bad to have a SE on Opinions.  If there is already one please let me know  P.S This question is different from  ,  and  please don't mark as duplicate by linking to those questions!!  P.S.S : My question is completely different that . The question sounds same but the description and the answers are totally different. I have anyway received a reasonbly good answer. So it doesn't matter
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I am wondering where is a good place or how is a good way to ask a question on what software tools to use for a specific task.  A lot of the time when searching for information on these types of problems stackoverflow comes up with the top and actually useful discussions and answers, but the question is locked.  I completely understand the point of discouraging "best of" or list questions as discussed in this question () and agree they often aren't constructive enough to justify the effort in moderating them.  What I am wondering is where is the right place to have a discussion like this? Stackoverflow has a good and active community so perhaps there is another section or related site I can ask less specific questions. And I do find some value in reading people's opinions, even if subjective on issues like this.  Here are some examples of the kind of questions I mean:    and   First results in google when searching for those subjects and some useful discussion.  Perhaps asking a question like this but with a strict and detailed specification it might be considered a valid and reasonable question to ask on stackoverflow; perhaps it's just a case of re-thinking how to ask a question. Or perhaps there's a more relevant place for this kind of discussion. Please let me know what you think.
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The first experiment of a subjective proposal -  - was created 11 days ago and has been in public beta for 4 days so far. As a private beta user I followed the website since day 1, reading most questions (even though I didn't actively participate much), and so far my impression is very good: programmers is a wonderful website to read when you have some time to kill. It's like reading a magazine. In my opinion, reading  is much more fun than reading , and thus it's no surprise that most of the  actually belong on programmers, as they are subjective/argumentative (but have been grand-fathered). I believe that the very nature of subjective answers make them more interesting. Of course there is a (big) place for non-subjective websites where you can get help or help with a specific problem, but I think there should be a (big) place for subjective websites too. It's early to say (this is meant to be an ongoing discussion that will probably last months), but so far programmers seems to be one of the more successful - if not the most successful - proposals ever created. It has , and the only beta website with more views is gaming. So, what do you say? Should subjective proposals be allowed? Can they be successful?
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Curious why  (se site) doesn't have hot questions list on the right.  It also uses the old stackoverflow design.  Why has this site's design and functionality been abandoned (or at least look abandoned?)