These questions are the most frequently asked and answered questions on Meta.
Site purpose and usage
- How do I get started with Programmers.SE?
- What goes on Software Engineering (previously known as Programmers)? A guide for Stack Overflow
- What's the difference between Programmers and Stack Overflow?
- Where can I have subjective discussions about programming?
On-topic and off-topic questions
- Why was my question closed or down voted?
- Are "I'm looking for X" questions on topic?
- Where does my tool question go?
- Why is "what language should I learn" considered off-topic?
- Are software law questions off-topic here?
- When is a software licensing question on topic?
- Are book recommendations on-topic?
- Where can I have subjective discussions about programming?
Moderation
Other resources
- Software Engineering Tour
- Software Engineering Help Center
- Blog: Good Subjective, Bad Subjective
- Blog: Real Questions Have Answers
- Blog: Q&A is Hard, Let’s Go Shopping!
- Blog: Gorilla vs. Shark
Is your question not part of the FAQ?
First look at questions tagged faq-proposed to see if there is a question not in this index that might have the answer you seek. If you still can't find an answer, then see the following instructions for proposing an FAQ question.
How can a question be added to this FAQ?
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Tag as faq-proposed and support. When a post seems to hit a mature state, it will have faq added by a moderator.
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