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New Site Name and Scope Proposals
Software Engineering.
I think it's as good a site title as you're going to get. Here's why:
It's not "Programmers," which smacks of people who write teh codez.
Electrical Engineering's name change (...
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New Site Name and Scope Proposals
This answer is to summarize the requests for Stack Exchange in a single post. It is a community wiki, so if something else seems to be a consensus in this thread, feel free to add or edit it.
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It's official! Programmers is now Software Engineering Stack Exchange
We made it, y'all! We just pushed the changes and now, after 8 long months...
The name for the site has changed to Software Engineering Stack Exchange.
The logo for the site has been updated to the ...
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I'm not a software engineer, right?
Do you care about applying craftsmanship1 or engineering to the planning, design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of software? Are you concerned with all aspects of software ...
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New Site Name and Scope Proposals
How happy I am that this day has finally come! These are my suggestions, some similarities to Snowman's answer with certain omissions and value-adds.
Site Name
I favor the new site name, Software ...
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Downvoting because we don't agree with asker's approach or logic
Votes should be used to indicate quality and usefulness and the lack thereof, and not to show agreement.
To be clear: it is great when askers write about their (possibly completely wrong) ...
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Am I right to downvote questions that contain the word "best"?
I don't think it's right to down vote questions just because they contain a certain word or phrase. I also don't think that questions should be edited to remove a certain word or phrase just because ...
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What is this "Software Engineering" site you speak of, and what kinds of questions can I ask there?
Why is "Programmers" changing to "Software Engineering?"
Because the name "Programmers" invites all sorts of questions that are only vaguely related to software ...
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Am I being selfish by asking on-topic, yet very specific questions?
The questions which are most welcome here are those which come from real software projects, related to real problems which arise inside the project. It does not matter if it is a commercial project, ...
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Why was "Why aren't young programmers interested in mainframes?" re-opened?
Thus, questions that are not answerable -- discussions, debates, opinions -- should be closed as subjective.
By and large this is true, but do you ever stop long enough to consider if there is ...
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3 votes for closing/reopening experiment: the results
Were you really expecting a different result?
This is simple mathematics; you reduce the number of votes to close, and the number of questions that get closed is going to increase.
That's not what ...
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Great Expectations... or, at least, user expectations
Frankly, I think that you are off base. Or at least your "change enforcement" is too thinly scoped.
No amount of name changing or scope massaging or helpful blurbs will fix the community.
As it ...
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Why questions about "the correct way" are too broad
Ask us about your specific problem.
Focus your questions on a specific, design-related problem you are having. Instead of asking "Is this SOLID," show us part of your project, tell us why ...
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The CV experiment has officially failed...but what are we supposed to do about it?
In my opinion this "spam" problem that gnat speaks to is one of those problems that is so deceptively simple, so completely obvious in hindsight, and something brought up before hiding in plain sight.
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So the site was renamed. Was it helpful?
The close questions statistics don't allow you to see windows that you can adjust, but I wonder if you can use SEDE to explore more. I'll also see if a CM can run some queries and do some data ...
Thomas OwensMod
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The community needs your support! Can you provide it?
What I like to support here is the request for more engagement by the community in helping to moderate this site (though I guess those who really take the time and read this meta post, having enough ...
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Should there be a shorter subdomain for the Software Engineering Stack Exchange?
I support swe because 3 is less than 4.
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Follow-Up 2: New Site Name and Scope Proposals
I think that this would be good. "Programmers" has always confused me. "Software engineering" is much clearer.
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Am I being selfish by asking on-topic, yet very specific questions?
Of your 9 non-deleted questions, all of them have a net positive score and none of them are closed. Two of them are also marked as a favorite question by at least 1 person, with one being marked as a ...
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Should we kindly explain the basic stuff, or rudely close the question?
As far as these types of questions go, I find that the people who ask them fall into one or both of the following (and many times that one leads to another):
They are in over their head. This ...
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Am I right to downvote questions that contain the word "best"?
If I may impart one observation I gleaned on my way to 100K+:
People who understand a problem well enough to craft a perfectly-worded question rarely need to ask the question.
People usually say "...
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Revisiting what is on topic, with respect to new sites: Open Source, Law, and Software Recommendations
I think we should not change the scope at all.
There is no reason the sites (Law and Open Source) can't have overlapping scope with Progs. For example questions about algorithms are on topic both here ...
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How to treat questions from users question banned on Stack Overflow?
No, there's absolutely no reason to treat a question differently if a user has been blocked from asking questions on a particular SE site.
If a question isn't a good fit here on Programmers, here's a ...
Thomas OwensMod
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It's official! Programmers is now Software Engineering Stack Exchange
Quite pleased to see the change but I would still insist to get a more serious font for the title SOFTWARE ENGINEERING like they have on Electrical Engineering, and Chemistry.
The current font of the ...
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Should we kindly explain the basic stuff, or rudely close the question?
IMHO a question which is not off-topic per se, but based on a wrong understanding, false assumption or premise, deserves a comment to give the OP a chance to edit it, or at least an explanation for ...
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