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I believe that http://programmers.stackexchange.com/ was introduced for this.

A lot of questions were migrated from SO to programmers when it started.

Nah, they don't like discussions there either... Check out the FAQ: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/faq

I prefer programmers.stackexchange.com and really want to contribute more, but the heavy handed closing of questions gors on there and it's really putting me off.

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