I think such questions should be allowed. They have a factual answer (a list of all journals on a given topic) which may not be easy to find anywhere else. They also admit subjective answers, which ...

Yes, absolutely! This line is here to satisfy the SE minimum character restriction.

I'm willing, although I will sometimes have other demands that make me unavailable for a week or more at a time. I'm a numerical analyst and have been pushing the site in my professional circles. ...

To add to Dan's answer: a moderator can migrate the question to another site for you if that is deemed appropriate. You can request migration by flagging as "off-topic" and then suggesting (in the ...

I would say yes, definitely. There have already been a few questions of this sort.

I am an applied mathematician.

I have advertised the site on NA-Digest (in December) and SIAM-CSE (last week). Both generated a noticeable bump in the visits/day for a few days, but not a lot of new questions, as far as I can tell....

Yes. And as you demonstrate, clear statements of computational science require mathematical formulas. So this is additional impetus to add MathJax.

I think both points of view expressed here are correct: It is impossible to give general recommendations for which method to use; rather, the choice of method depends on the characteristics of the ...

As it's a registered trademark of the Mathworks, I'd go with their capitalization: MATLAB.

Okay, here's an idea that I like: Establish a tag called "choosing-a-method" (or "method-selection") or something similar. Then, if I'm wondering how to choose a solver for $Ax=b$, I just search for ...

Both concepts of stability refer to whether small errors have a small impact on the solution. Only the source of errors differs (roundoff errors versus truncation errors). I personally think it's ...

I would say yes, if the question (like the one you reference) is about learning or teaching computational science specifically. We have a tag education and it has 6 questions so far. Two of them ...

A first step is to post links to them in our FAQ. I've made a first attempt, trying to follow the results of our discussion of scope.

I'm not sure what topicality is meant to denote, but as far as I can tell it's a synonym of the (clearer) site-scope. I'd like to eliminate topicality or make it explicitly a synonym of site-scope.

I will only give information about Q1, as I'm brand new to SE and don't presume to know about Q2. The current top 4 people (in terms of rep) all know each other very well, and 2 (not me) are PETSc ...

One think to keep in mind is that a question can be reopened (and it seems that this is not so uncommon on many SE sites). So closing isn't final, although I suppose it is demoralizing to the poster. ...