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What is the Q&A category for?

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We seem to ask a lot of questions in Meta, which sort of defeats the purpose of the Q&A category. Is it intended for subjective quesitons (of which this site gets few), or requests for tips, or something else?

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Monica Cellio‭ wrote almost 4 years ago

I just edited the category description to: "Questions about coding challenges -- techniques, patterns, etc -- that are not actual challenges." That feels kind of weak, but we can easily replace it with a better proposal if someone has one.