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To expand on my comment somewhat...

In a question and answer format, *personal* questions like "What do you *personally* think?" don't tell to fare too well. There's not really any way to identify right or wrong answers. It's very hard to vote on the quality of answers, because it's asking for personal opinions (or in this anecdotes). You can have 1,000 different answers, and no real way to sort them by "quality" - because the question doesn't focus on a specific, actionable question; it's asking for everybody to chip in to a discussion.

To me, this doesn't seem like a good fit for the Q&A format.

In the [Help Center](https://software.codidact.com/help/how-to-ask), I was specifically thinking of this paragraph:

> **Avoid too much subjectivity**
> 
> Questions like "What's your favorite way to eat an egg?" can't be answered objectively - the answer, naturally, changes depending on who you ask. On the other hand, "What's the difference between hard-boiled eggs and an omelette?" can be answered without relying too much on personal opinions. Try to ask questions that can be answered with some level of objectivity.

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I suggested chat simply because that's currently the "laid back" area, where you don't have to worry about sticking to any sort of Q&A format.

When I suggested possibly a series of blog series, I was indeed referring to a category of articles that doesn't currently exist. (That's why I mentioned bringing it up here on Meta.)  
I was thinking that a series of blog posts, by various authors, about "the worst code I've ever seen episode #6" would be a good way of sharing the (useful) knowledge that would have been contained in the question that was closed, just in a format more suited to it. (If there's interest in setting something like that up, a new Meta post about it is probably the way to go.)

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I absolutely agree that the canned closed reasons need to be reworked. As @Moshi mentioned, it's in the pipeline for being revamped entirely.

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And as a last point, it's entirely possible that I was in the wrong closing the question; I realized afterwards that I was largely operating on instincts brought over from Stack. Sorry about that! It's entirely possible that the Software Dev community here will decide that they want to keep that type of question around. If that's the case, the question can definitely be reopened, but that's probably a community-specific discussion that needs to happen.