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> There should have been one SO for everything.

What could possibly go right about mixing Judaism questions and Christianity questions into the programming questions?

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Its something I've mulled for years ;)

Here's about collaborative filtering: http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/15581427232/self-...

Here's just general SO discontent: http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/25426541504/stack... and http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/26580091073/stack...

;)

The collaborative filtering thing stands out as a really good idea to me.

Anyone here who can say anything about the community size you would need for something like this to be viable?

I don't have a problem with separate Stack Exchange sites for topics that are fairly separate, but I do have an issue with the sheer number of computing-related sites - the difference between StackOverflow and Programmers.SE, for example, is a bit arbitrary.

Is this a problem with wikipedia.org? Imagine both of these sets of questions tagged as `religion` and you have a common source for all people interested generally in any religion.

Are you kidding me?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Index/Ca...

Also, there's a very good reason "the dramaboards" are called that.

Ask reddit.

On a more serious note: Stack Overflow started out as a technical site. Questions about programming often crosses the border to hardware or networking. They rarely however cross into theology.

I'd be fine with opening a different site for theological questions as long as I could have all my technical questions in one place (and more importantly not having someone move them around.)

Well, it might put the fear of God into programmers, which wouldn't be all bad.

And the fear of computers into God, perhaps.

There are other options like the subreddit model, where the users define and moderate the divisions themselves.

...and where petty factionalism (among other factors) led to the creation of, say, /r/math, /r/maths, /r/askmath, /r/askmaths, /r/learnmath, /r/mathematics, /r/badmathematics... and so on for every topic you can think of.

Sure. I think that's preferred to the one community going stagnant--math is one of the only areas where that is arguably preferable.

They could use tags and machine learning. Have you been to Quora lately? they are a good example.

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