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My experience is that, in practice, open-ended questions on programmers.stackexchange are closed too, e.g. this post of mine http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/133506/when-s...

I have had just as much stuff pedantically closed on programmers.stackexchange.

I was aware of programmers.stackexchange but wasn't sure of the difference until now. Instead of closing questions on Stack Overflow with messages such as "This question exists because it has historical significance, but it is not considered a good, on-topic question for this site", it would be a lot more helpful to point people to a better home for such questions, such as programmers.stackexchange.

Programmers.stackexchange is a horrible experience. Over moderated to a fault and snarky filled. It's almost impossible to tell what the site is supposed to be used for. You'll have a better chance asking a question on Reddit than in Programmers.SE