Timeline for answer to An AMA* with some members of the team supporting you by Karl Knechtel
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| Jul 13 at 13:53 | comment | added | Connell StaffMod | @KyleMit beat me to it, but yes, people already come to SO to ask open-ended questions. Our product depends on having an active community and these users are trying to be part that, so we want to provide an appropriate home for this type of content rather than just saying it is not allowed. But we want to get it right, so we've spent years experimenting with exactly how that should work: discussions, opinion-based content, open-ended questions; all the while balancing feedback from meta, from user behaviour data, from user interviews, and from our own inutition as users too. | |
| Jul 13 at 13:42 | comment | added | KyleMit StaffMod | Bonus 3/2 - Also - want to point out for the entire history of the site, users have been trying to come to Stack to have these types of questions. And have felt consistently slapped away by the community when their question is closed for a variety of reasons. So there's strong signal that users want to have these conversations here. Now it's up to the community to figure out if they want to be a part of them as well. | |
| Jul 13 at 13:37 | comment | added | KyleMit StaffMod | As evidenced by the fact that these discussions current have to happen on other internet forums indicates we're not doing a good job solving that problem here in-house. So obviously we'd like to provide a space to allow for that type of discussion within our platform. The why is something we want to make the argument for through iteration. Hopefully it becomes a good place to bring those types of questions and that becomes the why. 2/2 | |
| Jul 13 at 13:36 | comment | added | KyleMit StaffMod | "Why would someone come to Stack Overflow to ask an "open-ended" programming question, rather than literally any other programming-related discussion forum on the Internet?" Stack overflow has always had the mission to solve problems that developers are having. Full stop. Problems and needs change over time and we want to be honest and survey what problems technologists are having and how we can better address them. 1/2 | |
| Jul 11 at 2:35 | history | answered | Karl Knechtel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |