I very much disagree. Threads like this and What is in your startup.jl? are best when they’re continuously added to. I pretty regularly come back to both of these just to see what people have added. It’s fun – maybe not to everyone, but to some people. And it’s only wasting the time of the people who choose to come here and have their time wasted. It might not be “productive”, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t any value in it.
Do these sometimes spark full-fledged discussions that are unrelated to the main topic? Yes. Should those discussions be migrated to their own topic? Yeah, probably. But that’s just natural conversation. If we want this to work more like StackOverflow, we should be there instead.