I recently posted this question on programmers.SE and it was suggested that I move part of the question to meta. I was asking if there was a good forum/discussion board I could find online to talk to other programmers about culture, opinions, stories, etc.
I love Programmers.SE but lately it seems that they are enforcing the "good subjective question" policy too harshly. If they want this to be a place for Answers and not discussion, that's fine, but then I would like to find a site where I can discuss things. If this is the site to discuss things, then please think before you vote to close something and don't just vote to close something because it doesn't meet some set of rules.
A few examples are:
- What do you call this { character I think this is a perfectly valid question. We're all new once and the best way to find out the answer to something like this is to ask the industry
- What programming jargon words are your least favorite I enjoyed this one and learned some new terms
- Do speakers get paid for their tech talks? Another one I was interested in but got closed
- I've got "benefits" I actually found this one funny and would sympathize with him. Its the sort of thing you kind of have to be a geek to appreciate
There were a few others I was looking at a short time ago that had some close votes, but hadn't closed yet.