As far as I understand it, the policy regarding list questions is an ongoing discussion (see here and here). The idea is that we should built up a community first, and then discuss how to handle this issue. I agree with this, but I also think that there should be guidelines for the transition phase. Right now the policy seems inconsistent.
My personal opinion is that we should handle list questions as liberal as possible for now.
I had a brief look at mathoverflow, math.SE and cstheory.SE (see for example here). Here it seems okay to have list questions at some extend. Indeed, list questions receive usually a high number of upvotes.
I would like to propose the following: (I extended the following items, some of the comments might refer to the frist version of the question.)
- List questions are allowed, if they are cs-related, and the question is a real question. In particular, they should follow these guidelines.
- All list questions are tagged. This might be a big-list or subjective tag.
- All list questions should be community wikis. (Not so sure about this.)
- If a list question turns into a open discussion or a long list of items it will be closed.
- If the community has grown, we review our policy.
Discussions are welcome.
