As climate change is a hot topic in the scientific community nowadays, with broader and broader subtopics, I thought it could be interesting to introduce a Stack Exchange on Climate Change. What do you think of it?
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I have an idea or subject that should have a Q&amp;A, and want to propose a new site. How can I do this?  Related:
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I want to know which forum, in the Stack Exchange multiverse, is the most appropriate to ask questions like...      I am new to working with csv files in perl, Can someone please point me to any good references on the subject?   I know questions like these are less specific and I will get yelled at on most of the forums I use within Stack Exchange.
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What's the best blog post/video/tweet/whatever to explain how the Stack Exchange system works to regular people? I am trying to gauge interest for a new Stack Exchange site, but I want to explain it to people as best (and preferably) as visually as I can. Any YouTube clips breaking it down?  anyone?  Note: I am fully aware of , but mine is about Stack Exchange, not Stack Overflow.  Most people think I'm describing traditional forum software, which they know sucks. Is there some way to describe the magic of how the design of the Stack Exchange system actually produces useful results very quickly? I can describe generally that it is a Q&amp;A site that users vote on the answers, but Stack Overflow feels like so much more. Am I perhaps thinking too big about this?
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I just posted to our blog about our .  Please see the post for details on the projects that our Community and Public Platform teams aim to deliver this quarter. We are interested in your thoughts and questions regarding our upcoming projects and priorities on the roadmap.
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Recently, I've seen many questions with this structure:   a wall of code a request for the community to debug it by inspection   You can find a nice selection .  I offer, as a thesis, that these questions are not consistent with the stated goals of SO. They do not, usually, create a resource of use to other people.   As a community, we could politely but firmly tell these askers to do enough of their own work to come up with a concrete, specific, programming question, other than 'can someone tell me what's wrong with this?'  Don't get me wrong. I'm sympathetic to people with problems. I have not been downvoting or voting to close these, because the community seems to be inclined in general to be helpful. I'm asking, are we really doing the right thing by encouraging the site to populate with these?  If the consensus is 'yes' then I'll just slink back to my cave. I'm not interested in starting a campaign here.
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An ageing gent says he does not accept this statement:  It's a fact that greenhouse gases, predominantly water vapour, keep the Earth  from being hostile and cold; that CO2 albeit in trace quantities is also a  greenhouse gas and therefore helps keep the planet warm...   I know no more about why he rejects this statement - maybe it is that water vapour alone would do the job. The gent in question has a first class degree and a doctorate in physics.    Is there a debate within the physics community over this or am I misunderstanding?
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I am new to Stack Exchange. I know there is a lot of discussion sites for Stack Exchange. I would like to know about there were any Stack Exchange site available for discussing and solving personal psychological problems.
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in questions, answers, and comments. Can we get something like this going on Stack Overflow?  I think it’d be appropriate as I at least pretty often want to write something like n^2 and would benefit greatly from prettier markup.
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I think many experts in stack exchange have knowledge in multiple discipline, and they would like to share their knowledge across multiple domains. It is not difficult for them to have knowledge in more than 7 domains. Please make the combined flair shows more than 7 icons to encourage expert supports other satellite sites.
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Financial terms, content quality, etc, is not a problem. The author has a contribution that will significantly impact the advancement of human knowledge about a particular topic.  Can anyone submit a paper? Or does it require some affiliation with a larger group such as an educational/governmental/corporate institution?  I am talking about journals of such clout as the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Physics of Fluids, etc.
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Has the Stack Overflow crew considered partnering with other existing, more traditional forums to support open ended discussion?  I understand Stack Overflow is strictly a Q&amp;A site. We all know the drill. We also all know that when a more 'discussion-y' question is asked it's either coerced into Community Wiki mode or out right closed by the moderators. And that's fair enough I suppose but sometimes a question is open ended or spawns many, many comments. With Stack Overflow's lack of threads it can be difficult to follow anything of length. So, on to the my feature request!  Partner with other forums such as Reddit (stackoverflow.reddit.com?) so if open discussion is wanted it can happen easily. And by easily I mean provide a link on each question page saying something like "Open an official discussion at $forum_name", or if the discussion was already opened then "Join the official discussion at $forum_name". And of course on the forum posts provide a link back to the SO question for reference. When clicking the outgoing link a bunch of heavy lifting is automatically taken care of such as signing into the forum (As who? Obviously that will have to be figured out) and filling in the various post fields with data from the question and submitting it.  As to which forums would be official partners I only came up with Slashdot and Reddit as possible candidates but I imagine that there should be a number to choose from depending on the topic of the question. Select the best forum for the topic.  The key part is to still let SO be really good at Q&amp;A and still let the various forums be really good at being forums while providing a little bit of official integration between the two. Additionally if the discussion devolves into nothing worth while then it's only related to SO and not actually a part of it. No harm, no foul.  So at the risk of making this sound too 'discussion-y', what do you people think? ;)  PS, And on second thought maybe this would be better implemented as a browser plugin or Greasemonkey script. :P  PPS, Or perhaps the focus should be a little narrower. One of the options for closing a question could be to migrate it to a forum area. That way the Q&amp;A isn't polluted with discussion questions and the actually discussion could be isolated to a discussion area.
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I think a Legal Stack Overflow would be an excellent resource. Why doesn't such a thing exist? If it doesn't, I'd like to create one.
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We are living in the gold age of user-generated content. Anyone can post a joke before breakfast, become a meme by lunch and be fired for the joke at the end of business. Ok, it's more like the " age", but still a unique moment in human history. Here at Stack Exchange, we're doing our part by hosting some of the very best content produced entirely by individual users at scale. I think it's fair to say we are the  of Q&amp;A.  It all started back in . Even so, it achieved some popularity within the developer community. The network first expanded to fairly technical topics, but very quickly  for just about every form of human knowledge including an endless variety of  and  schemes. In the days BSE (Before Stack Exchange) it was certainly possible to share knowledge. There were podcasts and blogs and forums and . You could post on  or  or . And of course there were  and  sites with alien mascots. But none of them capitalized on the simple genius of the question and answers format quite like Stack Exchange.  The  and we got to thinking it's too bad Stack Exchange sites have only been part of a third of that history. What, we pondered, would the world be like if Stack Exchange had started back in  1998? Relieving you of the need to imagine it, we are proud to announce a new Time Machine feature that lets you experience Stack Exchange before its time.    What's that? It says "WELCOME TO STACKOVERFLOW" you say? I asked our designers about that and they tell me dank fonts don't need lower case. Oh, you mean why isn't it STACKEXCHANGE? That's a bit of a time travel paradox. We set the baseline at 2008, but the Stack Exchange brand didn't really show up until . We have our crack quantum mechanics working on it. Once they patch the timeline, we won't have any way of knowing.  As you explore the Stack Exchange off-ramp of the Information Superhighway keep your eyes peeled for content that could only exist in the '90s such as:     Funny        Feel free to note especially appropriate examples in the answers below, but please don't .
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I had a question about the future of Citrix as potential career field, but wasn't sure where to ask it.  I ended up asking it on , is there a better place for these types of questions?
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Wouldn't it be a good idea to be able to vote for questions to be moved to any Stack Exchange site? For example, I just voted  as off topic, but that was all I could do. I wish I could've voted it be moved to .  It's OK to have the predefined list of sites that is now when voting to move, but it would be nice to have a more link, where we could pick any Stack Exchange site.  Here's a quick mockup of how I see this implemented:    When the more link is clicked, a list of all the Stack Exchange sites should appear.
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Has a Stack Overflow YouTube channel or a stackoverflow.tv site ever been contemplated, in doing so taking advantage of a medium where the Stack Overflow experience could be expanded and extended beyond reading material and the (nonetheless proven) Q&amp;A format?  EDIT: I'm not talking about  or that  that has the one video, I'm talking full-fledged  style but a lot wider in terms of technologies.  Beyond the (undoubtedly enormous) challenges, there are also enormous potential rewards.  I'm convinced this has, at least at some point, been on the table and would be interested to hear what made it an unsuitable medium to further explore.  To clarify the question, I can easily imagine that:   digging into the audio-visual market would be easy for a site that has already reached a certain standard, status and reputation there are a lot of very smart people on Stack Overflow who are not only celebrated authors but also experienced public speakers who, given the chance / asked / coerced could bring a wide range of topics in their respective fields of expertise to a wide audience this might be a cash cow in terms of ad revenue (I could be way off here, I have no idea how that "world" works...) there could be a standard in terms of audio-video quality and content that I sometimes miss on YouTube ...
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I want to learn one functional programming language. I would like to know pros/cons of various  candidates based on some assumptions (to be specified in question).  Now as it is Opinion based,  is definitely not a place.   could be one place, but  suggest other wise.  Is there any suitable SE forum where opinion based questions are allowed?