Given the churn induced by social coding sites like GitHub, we need a place to consult whose purpose is to stem the NIH tide. Like the opposite of a real life Lazyweb, the intent of posts are not desperate, hail mary requests to be spoonfed solutions; the implication is instead, "Hey, I'm very definitely about to go off and implement this unless someone speaks up. So if it already exists, let me know so that I don't end up creating something that the world didn't actually need any more of."