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Because this is not a "subjective site." Programmers.SE's purpose is to handle questions of interest to programmers which are not directly related to coding (Stack Overflow is about coding, explicitly). Those questions will tend to be more subjective than the topics on Stack Overflow, so we set up some guidelines for asking subjective questions which fall within the scope of good Q&A: Good Subjective, Bad Subjective.

If questions cannot fit within the "Guidelines for Great Subjective Questions," they need to be closed.

What's the point of a subjective site...

Yeah, that's the crux of the issue. There is no point to a subjective site. "Subjective" is not a topic. You don't major in subjective. You cannot become an expert at subjective.

This has been covered extensively. If folks really want to hang out at a site which hosts fairly stupid water-cooler nonsense, Stack Exchange simply is not the best venue. You'd be much better off setting up a phpBB forum somewhere.

Because this is not a "subjective site." Programmers.SE's purpose is to handle questions of interest to programmers which are not directly related to coding (Stack Overflow is about coding, explicitly). Those questions will tend to be more subjective than the topics on Stack Overflow, so we set up some guidelines for asking subjective questions which fall within the scope of good Q&A: Good Subjective, Bad Subjective.

If questions cannot fit within the "Guidelines for Great Subjective Questions," they need to be closed.

What's the point of a subjective site...

Yeah, that's the crux of the issue. There is no point to a subjective site. "Subjective" is not a topic. You don't major in subjective. You cannot become an expert at subjective.

This has been covered extensively. If folks really want to hang out at a site which hosts fairly stupid water-cooler nonsense, Stack Exchange simply is not the best venue. You'd be much better off setting up a phpBB forum somewhere.

Because this is not a "Subjective Site." Programmers.SE's purpose is to handle questions of interest to programmers which are not directly related to coding (Stack Overflow is about coding, explicitly). Those questions will tend to be more subjective than the topics on Stack Overflow, so we set up some guidelines for asking subjective questions which fall within the scope of Q&A: Good Subjective, Bad Subjective.

If questions cannot fit within the "Guidelines for Great Subjective Questions," they need to be closed.

What's the point of a subjective site...

Yeah, that's the crux of the issue. There is no point to a subjective site. "Subjective" is not a topic. You don't major in subjective. You cannot become an expert at subjective.

This has been covered extensively. If folks really want to hang out at a site which hosts fairly stupid water-cooler nonsense, Stack Exchange simply is not the best venue. You'd be much better off setting up a phpBB forum somewhere.

Because this is not a "subjective site." Programmers.SE's purpose is to handle questions of interest to programmers which are not directly related to coding (Stack Overflow is about coding, explicitly). Those questions will tend to be more subjective than the topics on Stack Overflow, so we set up some guidelines for asking subjective questions which fall within the scope of good Q&A: Good Subjective, Bad Subjective.

If questions cannot fit within the "Guidelines for Great Subjective Questions," they need to be closed.

What's the point of a subjective site...

Yeah, that's the crux of the issue. There is no point to a subjective site. "Subjective" is not a topic. You don't major in subjective. You cannot become an expert at subjective.

This has been covered extensively. If folks really want to hang out at a site which hosts fairly stupid water-cooler nonsense, Stack Exchange simply is not the best venue. You'd be much better off setting up a phpBB forum somewhere.