Tavern on the Meta

12:00 AM

@Catija from a certain point of view ;)

Also make any edits you can see before migrating. The revision history will be erased (well, still accessible via a link, but mostly invisible) and if you do it well this ensures the question stands the best chance of being well-received at the destination.

Journeyman Geek

(NPR became programmers became... I can't remember?)

Catija

@Shog9 You're preaching to the choir here...

Shog9

see, that logo looks classy in chat

Journeyman Geek

right, that. Its still early and the coffee hasn't kicked in yet ;)

and hah, 3 monitors ;)

user202362

12:05 AM

Maybe the way it's used is wrong? I mean, it's a temporarily pool of ... misc goods, each with multiple potential tags, mods and high rep users from sites with associated tags can move those into their sites if it's determined appropriate. The residual ... well stays on misc

Catija

NPR? What did that even stand for?

Other than the obvious.

Journeyman Geek

Not Programming Related ;)

Catija

So... people would ask cooking questions there?

Anonymous

The name was problematic.

Catija

I can imagine.

Journeyman Geek

12:06 AM

tbh, I kinda never went there so I have nooooo idea

Catija

The amusing thought of a site going from "Not Programming Related" to "Programmers"... is odd.

Journeyman Geek

@Catija in a sense it was presumably for the non pointy end of the programming spear.

"Old master once say, it broken shaft makes reaching hard"

Shog9

Not Programming Related was what the Off Topic close reason was originally called on SO... So folks would tend to close more subjective questions as Not Programming Related. Or "Subjective & Argumentative", but that's not a great name to sell folks on the idea of a new site.

Journeyman Geek

lol

Jon Ericson

@Catija Any time someone suggests we are good at building communities, I remember that saga. It's a useful memento mori.

Journeyman Geek

12:09 AM

@JonEricson I'd argue you guys are terrible, but it happens anyway ;)

Catija

@JonEricson You're good at building communities... just need some work at defining them. :P

Shog9

The first month of the site was exactly what you'd expect: "What do programmers eat for breakfast?" "How do I tell my co-worker he smells?" "How do you know when you are tired of programming in your life?"

Journeyman Geek

One of the core ideas of SO was kind of to minimise anything close to social interaction right? ;p

Anonymous

yet here we are.

Shog9

So Joel & Jeff look at it & say, "wow, what a mess" and it got... redirected.

Journeyman Geek

12:10 AM

@JeremyBanks in spite of best efforts? ;p

Catija

I'm sort of surprised you didn't just dump it in the trash and start over.

Shog9

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A: Why was the Programmers site on Stack Exchange created?

Origin Story If you browse questions on Meta for a bit, you'll quickly realize that there are a fair number of people who want to use SO for things that SO wasn't designed to be used for: discussions, polls, flame-wars, endless lists... And over time, this has created some amount of irritation o...

Catija

> The idea that this site was destined to become the cesspool of SE didn't sit very well with the goals SE Inc. had in mind for their network.

Ouch.

Journeyman Geek

lol

Yeah, sometimes things do go spectacularly wrong.

Catija

... So... is it fair for me to edit that FAQ to say:
Votes are cleared on posts with scores below 0. Posts with 0 or greater score retain their votes which are attributed to the Community user.

Shog9

12:26 AM

Yes

Andrew T.

2:12 AM

Morning...

Andrew T.

2:56 AM

@rene one way is to google the exact title. As it returned other sites than SO, it should give a hint that it was on HNQ (as Shog has also explained about site referral)

(yeah, very late reply)

@SmokeDetector also, thanks Smokey for greeting me with spam... you're the only one... ;(

user202362

4:10 AM