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Ask HN: Open-ended-questions.org — like StackExchange, but for open questions
1 point by KajMagnus on Aug 30, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
Dear Hacker News,

I'm thinking about building StackExchange.com for open-ended questions. Do you think it's a good idea? I have two questions:

But first:

1. There would be subdomains that corresponded to StackExchange subdomains, e.g.: programmers.open-ended-questions.org and writers.open-ended-questions.org. So if you wanted to ask an open-ended question, or start a discussion, you could visit *.open-ended-questions.org instead.

2. I've mostly built a hopefully better discussion system already, as part of a failed one-person startup, see http://www.debiki.com/-84472

Now, the questions:

1. Do you think open-ended-questions.org is a good idea? Would you use it sometimes, or perhaps people would use ... Reddit? instead?

2. Would anyone like to help out in some manner somehow? :-) For example, helping promoting the site(s), or advising about how it should be promoted? And/or suggesting features and things to add and amend.



I hate the circle-jerk of Askreddit. I think it is a great idea and will help as much as I can.


Okay, I'm glad you're interested.

By the way I wonder if a reputation system necessarily contributes to a circle-jerk, I mean a culture that tends to make everyone think in the same way, so that they'll get more upvotes.




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