I have posted a question about advices on design and architecture and review on a framework I'm creating:   Basically: I'm in the right direction and have I done some mistakes in the architecture. This required a bit of reading of the documentation and code can't be posted as such.  All my questions were closed or voted down, telling me to go somewhere else. Very nice people gave me a : none of them seem to fit the topic (although other similar question get answered on Stack&nbsp;Overflow, software engineering stack... which is very frustrating).  Simple question: Where do I post this kind of question now?
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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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About an Hour ago, I faced a problem and tried different ways to solve it.  At last I was going to post my Question on Stack Overflow, but the last trick which came in my mind worked, and the problem got resolved.    Now, if I want to post that problem on Stack Overflow with the solution which worked for me, for the purpose to help other newbies to get their answer if they face the same problem, what is the proper way of posting such solution to a problem?
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I posted a question which was closed as off-topic and it seems like it could fit on another site in the network. How can I go about moving it there?   What is migration? When can a question be migrated, and who can migrate it? When should I consider migration, and when is it inappropriate? What causes a migration to be blocked and what happens after? What causes a migration to be rejected and what happens after? Anything else I should know about migration?
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A couple of days ago  for a problem I had.  I got no answers, but almost by chance I solved my problem.  I am not quite sure if the question and answer are really relevant given that the solution was so simple.  So I have a question on the question:   Should I answer it (moving current Update 2 as an answer) and in a couple of days accept my own answer, so that question and answer are part of the archive? Should I ask for an administrative closing of the question, so the question reminds in the archive but not as an answered question? Should I ask for deletion of the question, so the question is removed for the archive?
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Some questions boil down to "how can/do I do X?" Here's an .  Sometimes, people leave comments under such questions that ask "what have you tried?" Is it OK to leave comments like that? Should all questions contain snippets of non-working code?
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Useful threads are being closed as "not constructive:"     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. See the .   For example,  was very useful for me since I am new to obfuscation and the question gave me a start. Also that question has lots of votes and bookmarks - these alone are the  markers of usefulness. The question is closed anyway. No idea why.  Same happened to my question, , which received one bookmark immediately.  I was waiting for an answer with the two products downloaded and installed.  I desired that experienced people would share their thoughts and point me to the better one. No. Closed. I.e. I must go to some other forum and ask there or I must search on Google and write down the pros and cons of each myself. I am not asking questions just because I have tons of time and want to chat; I need an answer, that's why I am asking. I am asking because I think that SO has the most professional people to answer and because I didn't find a good answer in Google.  I saw other questions closed which I myself found to be useful and I bookmarked some of the closed questions.  UPDATE  If I want people who have an experience which I do not have with some software products and I want to see which product is better in the terms of usability and reliability, not just better in terms of the price or has a better official website or better described on the official website, how do I ask this question? Or is this a question which I cannot ask on SO? I.e. this sort of information is not available on SO?  Is this one breaking the rules as well:  ?
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This is my usual experience:  "I want to post a question but I don't know what kind of questions are within the rules on this site. And since I don't want a question that took me 10 minutes to write to be instantly flagged as off-topic, deleted or down-voted into oblivion I won't post until I know the rules."   But the rules are nowhere to be found. The short site description is often not enough and doesn't include any extra information, for example Server Fault says "Q&amp;A for server administrators" and nowhere does it say "Don't post questions about home servers on Server Fault" etc.  With the increasing amounts of new users wouldn't it be a good idea to have the rules defined on the front page of each site like on reddit for example?
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Many posts here or somewhere else contain code, but they do not say where to put it.  Example:  I have found this post:  I'm a newbie with PHP. Where exactly should I place the code from the answer?
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:     What should I do, if the "Open Call Hierarchy" is broken (empty for every method in a project)? It is very useful for code navigation, do not know, how to work without it!    (now converted to a comment):     I have had the same issue. Closing and re-opening the project fixed this issue for me. You might want to give that a try.   The comment on the answer (before it was deleted):     This does not provide an answer to the question. To critique or request clarification from an author, leave a comment below their post - you can always comment on your own posts, and once you have sufficient reputation you will be able to comment on any post
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What happened to the close vote option for posts that describe an error or unexpected result but don't include the relevant code or any code!? This is on of the two most popular I use.. What am I supposed to do about questions like  now!?  I just also noticed "must show minimal understanding" is missing as well. After reading over the new option again, I am supposing that the intention is to use "not likely to be helpful for future viewers" for both of these?
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I regularily encounter questions on StackOverflow which are asked only because of the sole fact that the poster haven't made the effort to google for and the docs of a particular function/class/framework/whatever. My question is, to which category of the five proposed one should I vote when I vote to close the question? Is it: off-topic, not constructive, not a real question, exact dupe or too localized? I tend to be all for 'not a real question' - am I quite right?
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I frequently come across a really useful answer on StackOverflow which has been closed because it doesn't match the Q&amp;A format.  Examples include  ,  ,   ,  and there are others.  Where should this information be exchanged if it's not on stackoverflow?  It seems the moderators are often somewhat overzealous...  ---edit  When I say best, I mean they are informative and useful for someone who's looking for an answer to them.  Even if they do become a bit of a discussion, I value other people's opinions on the relative merits of the different JPA frameworks.  I come here looking to choose one and the answer helps me.  So what if it's not a definitive answer?  ---edit  I don't care how popular a question is, nor how interesting it is.  Users are interested in stuff that's useful to them.  Plenty of those were useful (as judged by the upvotes on the answers: 'This answer is useful'), but closed because they didn't have a definitive answer, as far as I can tell.  ---edit  Seems I'm not the first person to think this: there are various similar questions to mine like this one:   In it the user lists lots of other useful questions which have been closed:                    So isn't there a place on stackoverflow for these questions?  A discussion section, maybe?
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I went looking for answers to a question I had, but didn't find what I was looking for.  Now that I've found the answer myself, I'd like to share what I've learned.  What's the best way to do this, if nobody else has asked the exact question I did?  Should I ask the question myself, and immediately post my own answer?  Or should I mark the question as a tutorial in the title?  ("Tutorial: How to ABC when using XYZ")
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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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Where can I post my photos and get reviews, comments, and critiques from the community, in order to learn to become a better photographer?  Here is a list of places to get feedback.  Please use answer wikis to comment and rate each one.    As you get more advanced you might also want to try out photo contests, both online and local.
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I'm still becoming increasingly confused as to why we can't do or see certain things (really, just about anything except for answer a question) from the Review interface.  Today, it's comment voting.  I came across a question in the close queue where another person had already left a comment that clearly described why the question should be closed.  Sometimes, I'll come across other questions where a commenter has also clearly stated what can be done to improve this question so that it will either not be closed or will be a good candidate for getting re-opened.  Often times, in either case, the thread is still worth my close vote because it is either off-topic, low quality, or missing out on some other SE criteria, and it does not contain enough detail for me to feel confident that I can edit it into a good question that is still valuable to its original author.  I personally feel that, in most cases, it is our responsibility to the question author to give them feedback if we are going to down-vote or vote-to-close their question.  Sometimes, the feedback is clear enough in the close reason but this is only visible after the final vote - and even then, only the option selected by the majority is shown.  For instances where I'm giving a down-vote, or I'm one of the first-through-fourth people voting to close, the comment space is my only real option for giving feedback to the author.  Regardless, I feel that providing feedback to the author is essential in helping them to learn how to write better questions, write questions that better fit the StackExchange model, and get answers that are both useful to them and the community.  However, in cases where another person's comment already clearly and thoroughly relates my concerns regarding the post, it's often preferable that I up-vote the existing comment instead of leaving my own, redundant comment to clutter up the thread.  This is not currently an option from within the Review interface.  Interestingly enough, I'm allowed to leave a comment but I'm not allowed to vote on existing comments.  If I want to vote on an existing comment, I need to follow one of two processes - the choice between which is pretty much determined by the first step in each:   Remember that the Review interface will immediately leave the question when I choose an action option. Open one of the links to the question in a new, background tab in my browser. Choose my action for the question.   If necessary, choose the reason for my action. If necessary, select other options (i.e.: duplicate question) to complete the action.  Switch to the question's tab. Vote on the comment. Close the question's tab and go back to reviewing, or doing whatever else I was going to do.   OR   Forget that the Review interface will immediately leave the question when I choose an action option. Choose my action for the question.   If necessary, choose the reason for my action. If necessary, select other options (i.e.: duplicate question) to complete the action.  Open a new browser tab with the main site interface. Search for and open the question. Vote on the comment. Close the question's tab and go back to reviewing, or doing whatever else I was going to do.   Each of these workflows has four steps (italicized), plus associated page loading times, that I would not need to go through if the option to vote on a comment was simply included in the Review interface.  So, for the sake of our time and sanity - the savings of which, I believe, is the primary goal of this interface in the first place - please add or restore this functionality.
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Megan has written a .  I've seen a bunch of discussion about it on chat - but it feels like having it purely on the blog is a little clunky.  So specifically - what does the MSE community feel about the proposed post notices for closed questions? What's missing, or what should be added? What are some of the lessons we've learnt that could be helpful here?