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Part of the problem is that when programmers.se was first talk about, it was seen as a way of pulling the "garbage" away from SO.
– Ian Ringrose
Commented Jul 7, 2011 at 15:01
@Ian Ringrose: Even with overly generous assumptions about what is appropriate on programmers.SE, some questions are just blatantly worthless. Obvious flamebait, incoherent nonsense, requests for advice on very localized issues... stuff that would never even result in a worthwhile discussion. My impression is that programmers.SE was never about utter rubbish, just fluffy-but-useful questions that SO has become more aggressively opposed to.
– McCannot
Commented Jul 7, 2011 at 15:16

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like so
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