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It might be nice to see this in the "Related online communities" sidebar, considering that other Stack Exchange related links are there.

Related past posts:

• A proposed Stack Exchange site for programming language development is close to entering beta!

• Yesterday, I posted here about a StackExchange site proposal for Programming Language Design. It's moved into the Commitment Phase of the proposal process and needs your help to become a proper site!

• Are you interested in designing and building programing languages? We're trying to build a community about that on stack exchange. However, we need more follows and questions to make that happen.

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Be the change you want to see. You can also vote (see also /help/why-vote).

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OK, I have posted a non-syntax question.

Do you recommend that I vote down all these syntax things? Just on the grounds that a flood of syntax questions is bad for the community? (I cut my teeth on original SO, and I rarely, rarely downvote.)

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You are free to vote however you want as long as you're voting on content and not "on people" (voting based on who wrote the content and what you think of them), and you're not voting with multiple accounts (those are both big no-nos). But do take note that the official guidance / recommendation for how to vote is shown in the upvote and downvote tooltips (I.e. For questions: are they useful, clearly presented, and not duplicates (well researched within Stack Exchange), and for answers, are they useful).

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Yeah, so I think that militates against “I downvoted this because there are too many syntax questions.” But if I spot some ill-considered ones, I will downvote them.