<story><title>Not Constructive, a place for the discussions not allowed on Stack Overflow</title><url>http://www.notconstructive.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jerrya</author><text>What can I say? Like many people, I believe, I find the questions that have been closed, usually as &amp;quot;Not Constructive&amp;quot; to be the most helpful.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t understand Stack Overflow, but the weird negativity over there certainly keeps me from asking or answering questions there or at most of the stack exchange sites.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tudborg</author><text>I actually like the strict style of Stack Overflow.&lt;p&gt;And i find the &amp;quot;Not Constructive&amp;quot; to be exactly that.&lt;p&gt;Yes, it can be annoying when a question is closed and you really wanted to discuss it, but the rules are quite clear on what is and is not classified as &amp;quot;Not Constructive&amp;quot;, and the discussion should just move to some of the discussion threads instead.&lt;p&gt;And i don&amp;#x27;t know what you interpret as negativity?
I have never seen unfair or non-objective use of moderator functions?</text></comment>
<story><title>Not Constructive, a place for the discussions not allowed on Stack Overflow</title><url>http://www.notconstructive.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jerrya</author><text>What can I say? Like many people, I believe, I find the questions that have been closed, usually as &amp;quot;Not Constructive&amp;quot; to be the most helpful.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t understand Stack Overflow, but the weird negativity over there certainly keeps me from asking or answering questions there or at most of the stack exchange sites.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>runn1ng</author><text>And &lt;i&gt;exactly&lt;/i&gt; because of this perceived negativity, SO recently changed their close criteria - right now, &amp;quot;Not Constructive&amp;quot; is not even an option in &amp;quot;close&amp;quot; voting.</text></comment>