Borrowed from Web Apps meta
I would like this post to be a compilation for the FAQ of what is off-topic for this site. With the purpose to prevent a lot of discussion early on, about what we do or don't want to see. Off course, the community has to decide what it should be, but it does make a difference if the early examples leave out things we would want to be off-topic!
Any thoughts?
Don't anticipate problems.
This site is only 45 minutes old and we've already started a thread to decide what posts should be closed here.
I can understand the desire to get to work trying to figure out the entire scope of this site in one exhaustive thread, but as a general rule for building a new community, it is typically better to wait for problems to become invasive in actual practice before we start actively seeking to create a lot of rules discussions around hypothetical situations of how people are going to do this site wrong.
If you see a problem that is concerning for you on the actual site, by all means, raise it here. But it is simply waaaay too early for an all-encompassing "what does not belong here" thread when no actual problems have been observed on the site itself. It's just not a great way to build a new community.
That is why I closed this thread.
I assume I can extract from my answer on Area51:
While a question is on topic here or not would be quite easy to guess, for how I see it it would be question about near anything as long as it's related to one of:
Out of this, it will probably best suited to one StackOverflow, SuperUser, etc.
In fact the on-topic here are all the questions on a razor blade on StackOverflow or SuperUser as they involve programming and computer management (mainly server, but I won't block workstations questions)
