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TL;DR: "It really depends on the question."

GENERAL CASE: List Questions Suck

List questions off the form "What X do you use for Y?", "What products exist that do Z?", and the like are crap questions. They can almost always be answered better by Google, and Google will do a better job keeping its answer up to date than we could ever hope to.

Possible Exceptions

  1. Checklist Questions
    A good checklist / Best Practices question that can be used by others to develop their own checklists can be a Good Thing. If nothing else it provides a canonical destination for newbies so we don't have to keep closing the same thing over and over as "not constructive" and leaving pointer comments.
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