@Anna i suspect the reason it flopped in area-51 is the highly reiterated stigma against this concept in the first place, more so than the idea itself being flawed
Ok people stop suggesting discussion forms, if you honestly think about what i am suggesting you will see that a discussion form, which is strictly linear, doesnt have per post rating systems, and allows responses responses, is not the proper avenue for this type of stuff
honestly, would it be too much skin off anyone's back if we had a place where 'whats your favorite programmers blog' had a place to live? If you dont want to see that then stay away from that SE site. Or let them exist on the regular SE sites, and lets make a special tag that automatically hides questions from showing up unless you specifically search for that tag. Noise problem solved!
What could make a SE subjective Q&A site not become crap like yahoo answers? Proper execution, and proper community mindset. I don't think that the SE sites are too far technically from being a great execution for it, so whats holding it back is the communities attitude- which is built and reinforced by the scars of a few flubs early in the process
I understand 'whats your favorite programmer blog' not belonging on Stackoverflow, however that question on a traditional forum wouldn't produce nearly as valuable of content as when its in a Q&A rep based site (people need motivation to post)
as for: it's off-topic, it's noise and pointless, it's subjective and argumentative, if you were on StackOverflow id agree, but the version on Programmers seemed quite fitting to me
@badp, the following are issues that stem from the overeager closing complex that SE has: it was opened and closed countless times, it (probably, I don't have 10k) needed protection and locking because it just couldn't die and now has been deleted?