I understand that some questions tends to be subjective, like "what is the best IDE for JavaScript". That said, no one will deny it is a question that many people will ask many times. As far as I could read, moderators will argue that, despite what-is-the-best question is valid, it doesn't fit stackexchange norms, but as it is valid, people should seek to find the answer by themselves by reading reviews, downloading demos, etc. My problem with that is most of the experts don't even have blogs, so their knowledge is denied to the world.
My proposal is to start paying attention to those not-constructive, but valid questions doing some small changes:
- Rather than closing a questions as not-constructive, mark them with a different color, or filtering them out by default.
- Not-constructive questions will never have an accepted answer, but rather just list them all sorted by date, as what-is-the-best completely depends on the date you asked your question.
- Answers to not-constructive questions should have more strict moderation to avoid answers like "If you are a PRO, you gotta use IntelliJ IDEA. Period".
Any suggestions are welcome.