At the our last home "you" decided that "we" were not allowed to do anything that made people we did not welcome feel unwelcome.

@Ringi as Art said, "we" will not impose any, but the lightest rules on the community. There are some safeguards for "you" (open-source; we plan to create a non-profit organization with community board seats; ...). However we do require some basic amount of decency. See our minimal Code of Conduct. Normal use of the site should not interfere with that CoC though.

@Ringi I'm not sure what you mean. This site is not run by Stack Exchange, if that's what you're worried about - the folks who run this site are not the same people as those who can make decisions on Stack Exchange sites.

But shouldn't at least some things get narrowed down before launching the site? As it sits now, the scope seems incredibly broad and nobody has a clue what's on-topic - everything vaguely programming-related? I'm not sure what this site is for or how to use it. Nor am I particularly interested in contributing to a "everything programming" site. How's that different from Reddit, Quora et al?

If we make a "super site" because we fear low contribution on specialized sites, it might very well have the opposite effect: scaring away technical specialists, whom are absolutely necessary for a programming site to flourish.

@Lundin this site has an initial scope, which was hammered out on Meta.CD in the site proposal - it's in the welcome post and at the top of the Q&A category. That can be changed here on Meta if that's useful.

Yeah I read it, it's apparently everything vaguely programming related... I very much doubt there will much in the way of quality posts with such a huge scope. And no attention is given to the usual hot potatoes: homework questions, career advise, tool recommendations etc. Are these on-topic or not? Code reviews? Code golf? And so on...

@Lundin This is much like a private beta for a new SE site; those things have not been defined yet, because they can and should be decided here on Meta by the folks who want to participate here - this community belongs to those people.

I think it's important for a QA site to continue to focus on documentation as a purpose instead of "please answer my question"; that immediately would make homework, career advice, tool recommendations, code golf, and overly broad questions off topic. However the path to that probably requires making it very obvious that you do not get help as a user from the "Ask Question" form, you get it by searching, and you should probably bury the Ask Question button like the advanced user feature it is.

The other thing I think would be necessary if you went that route is either establish a clear scope of what is/isn't ok to document here (I see Excel formula questions getting downvoted even though I can't find a reason why that'd be off topic here), or if you don't know right now, either disable question downvoting or give it no penalties, because you're pretty much saying "please determine this experimentally, at your own risk".