Timeline for So many bad questions
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| Jan 29, 2015 at 22:00 | comment | added | Fuhrmanator | The list from programmers.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic is clearly more focussed than programming. I'd almost say a good name is Software Engineering (again, it's close the the topics we teach in our software engineering bachelor's program), but I think a lot of people might think Software Engineering is about anything related to software (using it, for example). How about a sexier name like softwarecrafters? | |
| Jan 29, 2015 at 21:49 | comment | added | Fuhrmanator | I agree that the problem is much with "what do you call it," but design is not the solution. That word is even less clear. I teach software design and can refer you to many books on the matter. Even so-called experts don't 100% agree on what is design. | |
| Jan 29, 2015 at 16:00 | comment | added | Izkata | @Sejanus Programmers originally was named as such for "not programming related" - the users that visited regularly made it largely about the people & culture/workplace as well as software design. A few years ago, they decided to force a hard left turn on the site and turn it into what it is now (alienating a lot of the original users), but for some reason decided against a rename/new site, which has been the primary source of confusion for new users. The name matches its original intent, which is not quite what the site is for now. | |
| Jan 29, 2015 at 10:37 | comment | added | Michel | I totally agree with this. When you are new to the StackExchange sites and you google your problem and arive at this site, you see 'programmer'. And when you start start Eclipse and can't create a project, you think 'gotcha, I am a programmer, this is the right place for me', and you write your post. And about reading the FAQ: It wouldn't surprise me if FAQ's are only read by the people who wrote it. | |
| Jan 29, 2015 at 9:15 | comment | added | Sejanus | @MichelT I'd assume if the name was less broad, people wouldn't be posting so many offtopic questions, or at least that was the idea. Programmers imply that you can post any programming related question here. Mike certainly has a point. | |
| Jan 29, 2015 at 4:56 | comment | added | user40980 | Could you go through the most recent closed or downvoted questions and explain for each, how it would be clearly off topic on the site with a different name? | |
| Jan 29, 2015 at 3:48 | history | answered | Mike | CC BY-SA 3.0 |