<p>I'm a noob -- so don't put too much in my opinion, but (to up credibility a little) I've been a computer engineer for about 10 years, read most of Joel's books, and tried this collaborative shtuff before -- so I'll toss in my two cents.</p>

<p>I feel like basically, Joel et. al. created this awesome building in which to house a library (now this isn't Wikipedia, but gimme a sec) and now they're letting us use it for <strong>free</strong>. We (or I should say thankfully, <strong>you</strong>) petitioned to create a new reading room and bookshelves called "Statistical Analysis".  We meet here and talk about the things we want to talk about -- seems like the group is developing significant cohesion -- <em>but they aren't asking for us to pay rent</em>.</p>

<p>So now the question of a name comes up and it's like you want to move the reading room &amp; bookshelves to a new building <em>which they have to build for us.</em>  Now I know this is the web, a single address is cheap, we picked a good name, but it almost sounds like you're saying <em>we deserve our own identity, separate from the original initiative.</em></p>

<p>Personally, I think they've done us a huge favor - I've already had several questions answered here, one I asked, a few I stumbled upon, and a few I discovered in trying to answer questions for others.  But I don't want to dissociate from the SO/SE brand because, IMO, the did a damn fine job making the site.  Further, because I can see the quality of Q&amp;A on SO, I can come over here and expect <em>and receive</em> the same level of quality. It's also really easy to wander to other rooms for those slightly off-topic questions...</p>

<p><strong>That said</strong>, if they're willing to purchase a website and redirect it to our room, stats.stackexchange.com, that would be great!  It's a bit of a mouthful to get out on the elevator ride up.  Then as @Srikant said, we don't need to go into a long explanation about SO, just say -- go to CrossValidated.com and get good shtuff.  :O)  I would liken this to saying -- hey, we've got a lot of traffic (any you know these walls are pretty thin right??) would you mind if we construct a new door?  We'll tell people about it, that way our traffic won't clog the front entrance.  Besides, this one's a little closer to the Stat department / a little more convenient for us to remember where it is (especially us noobs -- you know how freshmen are always getting lost..).</p>
