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Bill the Lizard: > If it meets all the criteria in the FAQ, it should be fine. Note that the blog post does explicitly say “as long you format it as a question and answer.” If it’s a discussion you’re looking for, this might just be the wrong place to look. I'm going to have to disagree with you. Non-trivial questions have non-trivial answers, and that means discussion. If SO's goal is to just be the repository for shallow questions that newcomers ask, then okay, but I've never seen that expressed as the goal. For example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/383402/is-javascript-s-new-keyword-considered-harmful This is a legitimate question that you closed as "not constructive". The question that covers "software tools commonly used by programmers" and "practical, answerable problems that are unique to the programming profession". It's "reasonably scoped" (a single keyword in a single language), and the motivation was clearly "I would like others to explain ______ to me". Yes, the question invites discussion. That's what interesting questions do.

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Bill the Lizard:

If it meets all the criteria in the FAQ, it should be fine. Note that the blog post does explicitly say “as long you format it as a question and answer.” If it’s a discussion you’re looking for, this might just be the wrong place to look.

I'm going to have to disagree with you. Non-trivial questions have non-trivial answers, and that means discussion. If SO's goal is to just be the repository for shallow questions that newcomers ask, then okay, but I've never seen that expressed as the goal. For example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/383402/is-javascript-s-new-keyword-considered-harmful This is a legitimate question that you closed as "not constructive". The question that covers "software tools commonly used by programmers" and "practical, answerable problems that are unique to the programming profession". It's "reasonably scoped" (a single keyword in a single language), and the motivation was clearly "I would like others to explain ______ to me". Yes, the question invites discussion. That's what interesting questions do.

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