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What Stack Exchange site would address software suggestion questions?

Example: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11659740/book-recommendations-for-moodle-2-2

Are these types of questions not allowed?

Seems like something very useful for Moodle developers. Wouldn't Google pick up this question?

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Recommendation questions in general aren't allowed because they're just that: recommendations. Since there's no real right answer, they tend to generate lots of discussion and don't really fit the StackOverflow Q&A format.

Recommendation questions are pretty much the poster child for the not constructive close reason:


This isn't to say that recommendation questions can't be interesting or valuable, just that StackOverflow isn't the place for them. It's a pity that there isn't some obvious great place for them, but that's the price of keeping StackOverflow great for its core function of providing answers to concrete programming problems.

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