NancyLebovitz comments on Boring Advice Repository - Less Wrong

56 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 07 March 2013 04:33AM

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 07 March 2013 07:31:08AM 2 points [-]

Any suggestions for best forums for questions that don't have obvious places to ask? I've been happy with ask.metafilter.com, but I haven't used it lately.

Comment author: ChristianKl 07 March 2013 10:56:44PM 2 points [-]

If your answer fits any of the categories of Stackexchange that's usually a good place for a question.

Comment author: fubarobfusco 07 March 2013 07:53:14AM 0 points [-]

Reddit has a number of these, e.g. /r/askscience for general science explanations, /r/answers for "everything you ever wanted to know about anything but were afraid to ask." There are other specific Q&A subreddits for history, social science, and estimation of unusual quantities.