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Discussion on: Stack Overflow Isn’t Very Welcoming. It’s Time for That to Change.

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// , Maybe there could be a "FriendlinessOverflow" to complement the Q&A site?

Its symbol could be a muffin with rainbow icing.

I would love a site like that.

“There’s not a Hand in this town, sir, man, woman, or child, but has one ultimate object in life. That object is, to be fed on turtle soup and venison with a gold spoon. Now, they’re not a-going—none of ’em—ever to be fed on turtle soup and venison with a gold spoon. And now you know the place.”–Josiah Bounderby in Charles Dickens’ Hard Times

But seriously, his quasi-Bounderbyisms aside, Jeff Atwood, the founder of the StackOverflow site, has a point.

StackOverflow brings the best to its readers as an aggressively curated Wiki masquerading as a Q&A site.

This means that some content will get rejected. Plenty of mine has been. And some people will, in turn, feel rejected.

And if you try a search query in other, less curated fora, I think you might agree that a lot of the value of StackOverflow is what is not on it.