I just deleted What Stack Overflow is Not, a collection of
various explanations for things that Stack Overflow doesn't do,
wasn't meant to do, or shouldn't be used to do. Several people
put a fair bit of time and effort into it, so I felt I should
take a minute to explain my reasoning...  First I should note
that this wasn't due to problems with the post itself. Not that
there weren't problems - you can find them discussed in depth in
How can the "What Stack Overflow Is Not" post be improved? - but
they could've, and to some extent were, being fixed with edits.
As negative as "What X Is Not" sounds, the intentions were good:
a set of answers to common misconceptions on the purpose of
Stack Overflow, directed at new users, written and edited with
an eye toward clarity and brevity.  It was a nice idea; my hat's
off to those who were willing to try it. Unfortunately, it was
also fundamentally misguided.  As I wrote a while back in
response to a similar suggestion,   The best you can hope for is
to catch a handfu