I asked a question regarding the design choices made in the Haskell language and got slammed.  Is there a Stack Exchange community for the philosophy of computer science?
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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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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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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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Allow me to add my own "top questions" too! I know, I know, the site should be more heavily weighted to answering, but sometimes, how and what people ask is important too! For example I recently asked  which I think is a fairly good question. Clearly I'm going to avoid questions where I've asked something very simple, but I know of a user or two who are implementing their own C standard libraries and the depth of those questions is important/ought to be on show.  Of course, the argument I can just look at their profile holds, but that awesome q/a might have been from a year or so ago in which case finding it is difficult.
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Besides contributing  and answers, are there any other ways that I can contribute to Stack Overflow and its family of websites?  I would be happy to    give a  donation contribute code   SFOU has been helping me tremendously, so it's only fair if I can give back something.
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I recently saw a question on Stack Overflow relating to the . The guy wasn't asking for code at all, meerly asking what the process involved.  It was immediately slapped with a comment directing him to the  (which after reading I still couldn't see why the asker was being directed there), and closed shortly thereafter as "Not a real question".  Since I asked this question, it has been suggested that the question was closed because the asker was asing whether he could ask a question, or because he may have been asking how to unlock his iPhone, where I assumed he was asking for the technical specifics of what happened. Both fair points, it may have been my mistake  As Brad has stated the question  received a very positive response. Another relevant question suggested by Brad, but received a negative response:   Now I know some people out there want to be the Stack Overflow Police, and some people are scared of questions that slightly hint at subversive or underhand methods, or that the asker is trying to do something illegal (either for the sake of the site, or for maintaining their own halos).  However in my opinion it is perfectly acceptable to ask about processes and methods, even in the areas of reverse engineering and programming practicies that are invariably used to exploit other software. Questions like "How do I crack software X?" are obviously unacceptable.  I'd like to know what the community thinks about this; what is your opinion?  Is it ok to ask about shady practices, for educational purposes, as long as they are non-specific (in terms of cacking a certain piece of software, or asking for code to unlock iPhones, etc.)
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I understand and agree that opinion based questions are a bad thing on Stack Overflow, but shouldn't we have a place to ask this kind of question? There are so many times where I look at different frameworks and have to make decisions that will affect the next 3 years of my life without actually having all the pros and cons of both sides.  So my question is: Is there a place to ask these questions?  And if the answer is no, could that be a new Stack Exchange sub-website?
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Since opinion based questions are not allowed neither here nor on stackoverflow, I would like to ask if any of you, know some other web page (outside Stack* ecosystem), where we can ask questions like:  "Which Java Web framework would you recommend to learn"   or any other, which by nature are opinion based.  EDIT1:  Allow me to explain a bit more - I know there are webgroups, forums and mailing lists BUT most of those are for single programming language or framework and I'm looking for something more generic. Stackoverflow is great because there are experts from all sort of programming languages and frameworks, so if it would be allowed to ask:   "Best web frameworks similar to ASP.NET MVC4"  I would get a lot of opinions, from different languages and frameworks, and that exactly what I'm looking for.
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On a few occasions I've wanted to know about experiences in a certain situation, only to get close votes because the question resembles a similar question answered by hard facts.  On other occasions those same questions are shot down because they are non constructive.  Programming often is not an exact science. There are multiple solutions for a problem and often those solutions all have their pro's and con's.   I do understand why those type of questions can run against some opposition, they do tend to end up in a meta-discussion, actually exactly why meta.stackoverflow.com exists.  My question however is: How would one ask a question of which the answer is highly debatable, even though the opinions of people is actually the answer you are looking for.  Typical examples of this types of questions: - Use REST or SOAP for for a webservice - What is currently the best IDE of choice? - What programming language would currently be best to learn.
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Important: This question is being asked here, and not on the Programmers Meta,  because I believe that several SE sites suffer from this same, specific problem.    On Programmers, I see a pattern emerging.   New User sees the "Programmers" site title, and asks their incomplete, "fix my broken code" question. Community members comment that their question is off-topic, and recommend Stack Overflow.  New User says "thanks" and leaves, leaving their undeleted question for the community to clean up.    What seems clear to me is that:   New User has never seen the "What kinds of questions can I ask about here" page, or if they have, they've clicked through it without reading it. New User doesn't know how to move their question to the right place properly  (i.e. post on new site, delete from old site). Community cleanup of such questions is onerous.  The moderators on Programmers, following the principle that the community should moderate itself for the most part, are not proactive about removing such questions unless they're especially egregious. Migration is even more onerous.   OK, so we have the .  Here's what it says about topicality, about halfway down the page:    Note to those who are confused about Programmers' site scope: it's all right there, in black and white.  However, I do notice a problem.  It's circled in red.  That's our fault, the fault of the Programmers community.  What we really meant to say was "Don't ask your code troubleshooting questions here; those belong on Stack Overflow."  Coding tools deserves its own bullet.  We should fix that.  However, what are the chances that the user is actually seeing this, and evaluating whether or not they should ask their question based on this?  So here's my question, in two acts:  ACT I:  Is there a way to highlight the pain points of a particular site to new users specifically, so that we can be very clear that we don't want those questions that are clearly and unambiguously off-topic on our site, before they ask their question?  ACT II: Failing that, is there a way that we can fast-track the removal of such questions so that they no longer pollute our front page?
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I want to ask some funny things (humor questions) but I don't know where. Is there an appropriate Q&amp;A site in Stack Exchange?   Maybe not only humor, but we all known memes. Why don't have a site about new science called "Memology"?
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Within the Stack Exchange ecosystem, is there a place for indie developers to post links to their software? Promote, test, discuss, and brag about it? If no, then why not?
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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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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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I know C++, Python, JavaScript and Prolog.  I want to learn Java.  Will my question be deleted if I ask for recommendations on StackOverflow?  If so, is there another StackExchange site I can ask on?
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I am working on a Web application, and I was looking for a reasonable implementation for one of its backend services. I wanted to ask the community if they have done something similar and if so how does their implementation work?  This is a subjective and possibly open-ended question, hence Stack&nbsp;Overflow is not the right place to ask this question.  Is there a Stack&nbsp;Exchange community in which one can ask suchlike questions?
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Can I ask questions about software application recommendations anywhere in the stackexchange system?  For example, I have a requirement, which will involve software and hardware.  I want to type this requirement up somewhere where possible readers will be able to recommend hardware and software solutions to my requirements?