Comment by yrizos

Disclaimer: I'm a Programmers moderator.

The original version of Programmers was called "Not Programming Related", and it was created as a site for anything and everything that didn't fit Stack Overflow (What's your favourite programming cartoon, etc).

What you are describing is actually the current scope, that seems to be working just fine. You're right that questions that fit within the site's scope rarely have a definitive answer, but a definitive answer is not what we are looking for, just a finite and somewhat limited set of good/great answers.

Here's a few recent example questions that probably explain what the site's about better than I could ever:

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/167305/what-f...

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/165380/how-ca...

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/161568/critiq...

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/162643/why-is...

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/161794/is-it-...

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/159637/what-i...

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/154247/experi...

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/158779/how-ha...

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/155488/ive-in...

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/154733/my-bos...

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/145669/what-s...

None of these questions would make it on Stack Overflow, and that's the gap Programmers is filling.