When people ask about Programmers.SE being too negative, closing too many things, or needing to be more inclusive - the best way to approach this is probably to look at the questions that have been asked and put on hold in the past two days or so (the 100 most recent questions).
- possible lossy conversion from long to int in java
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/297099/where-do-i-start-i-want-to-automate-some-redundant-office-tasks
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/297098/why-initialization-is-important
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/297095/python-3-x-breaking-down-user-input-and-storing-it-in-different-variables
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/297091/how-to-implement-ipc-in-a-java-process
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/297081/async-retry-executes-immediately-before-waiting-for-interval
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/297076/accesing-java-script-variable-inside-java-in-jsp-file
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/297073/heuristic-of-a-star-search
- Repost of A* search failure (10k link)
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/297071/saving-time-on-mysql-as-data (migrated)
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/297064/spare-time-development-for-work-and-ethics
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/297063/whats-a-good-way-to-design-a-data-input-output-program
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/297061/first-pc-game-question
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/297056/is-commenting-of-code-part-of-system-documentation (duplicate)
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/297055/when-to-use-typedef-in-c-programs
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/297054/how-to-handle-a-widley-configurable-application (duplicate)
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/297053/link-facebook-likes-with-website-profile-rating
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/q/297158 (duplicate)
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/297037/how-to-generate-a-single-js-file-containing-all-dependencies-from-npm-or-bower
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/297023/google-mock-how-to-name-mock-functions (migrated)
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/297012/file-not-found-file-mp3-in-delphi-xe7
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/297009/pointers-in-c
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/297002/gui-development-in-c-programming
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/297000/starting-out-again
- What does "amortized" mean in "amortized analysis" of algorithms? (duplicate)
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/296989/drawing-of-model-design-question
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/296969/what-caption-is-best-for-a-detail-form (migrated)
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/296966/mean-value-for-dimension-in-numpy-array (migrated)
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/296958/which-programming-or-scripting-language-is-this
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/296956/how-to-intercept-sound-from-running-programs-and-modulate-before-outputting
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/296949/flux-architecture-w-backone-how-to-use-action-creators-for-all-http-responses
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/296948/how-should-i-develop-an-app-for-live-streaming-of-a-home-based-cctv-on-android
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/296946/what-are-good-ways-to-store-decorated-objects-in-a-relational-database-without-a
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/296945/restful-api-using-hateoas
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/296934/intellij-community-edition-javascript-support
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/296930/is-regex-anyway-slower-than-string-methods-to-match-something-in-long-strings
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/296922/suggestions-for-building-a-distributed-system-wanted
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/296920/what-is-the-architectural-design-method-that-begins-with-data
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/296914/what-is-essential-to-create-an-extremely-performant-software
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/296909/how-do-you-format-text-in-python-using-lpod-library (migrated)
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/296905/software-version-with-git-branching
- Why isn't there a true "Date-Only" data type?
- PHP OOPS: Code review
- Methods of “Code Softening” (Opposite of “Hardening”) for C & C++
- Chain of Responsibility vs Commands in a queue or stack
- latest concept of model-view-controller updates in php
- I like programming but I get discouraged sometimes and feel like stopping because I don't think I am good enough. Is this a normal feeling?
- Waterfall model implementation
- Writing comments for some small code with rather large background (duplicate)
- Storing in-memory data in Hadoop
- contributions vs commits on Github
- It is possible now to use .net native for windows 7?
- Passing table name to a stored procedure to perform insert/delete on that table
- How to test HAProxy Load Balancer
- Is there such a thing as “code diversity”?
- process large dataset c#
- GPL - Does "internal use" apply for a public gameserver? (migrated)
- I have trouble with my matplotlib (Python) plot and fit?
- Hooking into partial class' property change
- Can the copyright message be removed from software output licensed under GPLv3?
- Spring-boot and maven multiple modules
And some that don't show up in the list because they were deleted:
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/297040/top-10-rules-for-remote-work
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/297033/what-is-the-complexity-of-while-loop (duplicate)
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/296960/finding-n-satisfying-a-criterion
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/296943/ctrlf-inheritance-to-c-in-vs2013
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/296954/code-editor-that-allows-multiple-projects
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/296926/loan-origination-system-los-integration
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/296916/how-to-make-android-app-load-external-url-in-in-app-browser
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/296911/output-of-3-different-i-o-models
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/296908/ideas-needed-for-a-project-to-do
- https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/296830/linear-equations-in-ruby
So there we have 70 questions that have been closed and/or deleted.
To people saying that we're being too negative and closing too many, specifically which of these questions shouldn't have been closed? can be salvaged and reopened by one of us? needs to be fixed by the OP and only the OP can fix it?
To any Community Managers that see this - please look at this list and consider if we are indeed being too restrictive? or if there is another problem lurking? What can we do to better serve these questions in a timely manner? Do you think we need to change our scope to say that some of these questions should be allowed on the site?