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If a question is closed as Too Story-Based, does it automatically belong on Writing Stack Exchange?
Note: The reason I’m asking this question has nothing to do with my most recent question being bombarded with VTC:Too Story-Based. This isn’t a form of retaliation.
The title of the question says ...
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Why have these off-topic questions not been closed?
I just asked this question today and within 1 minute of posting it was closed by a diamond mod. The moderator did not provide satisfactory reasons for the closure, instead first claiming that I was ...
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Clarification: RMIQ and Creature Design
Relates to: Policy: Review-My-Idea questions are permissible
We have previously discussed how complete an idea must be to be worthy of review. A recent review request on Main was, in my opinion, ...
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What to do about questions that require other questions to answer?
I'm debating whether or not to post a question that goes along the lines of:
'What would the Radius and Mass of a Gas Giant have to be to support 25+ Moons?'. It would go on to explain a sort of '...
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The duplicate close reason has certain flaws
I just saw this question on the main site. It was closed as a duplicate of this question. In this case, both questions were clearly low-quality spam and hence closing them was justified.
However, this ...
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Should we have a defined question structure for new contributors?
As a relatively new user myself, I find that a lot of the issues I have with asking questions, and a lot of issues that others have, stem from how unclear the help center can be, especially about the ...
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Suggestion to reword "book" answer questions in the don't ask section
On https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask, I would suggest the following change:
"Your questions should be reasonably scoped. If you can imagine an entire book that answers your ...
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Trish's answer to a closed question deserves a bounty - but bounties are forbidden for closed questions - so please up-vote it
This is the first time I've made this request on Meta. It's easy to imagine it'll be the last.
@Trish has provided what I believe is a spectacular answer to a closed question. I voted to close the ...
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Is it only permissible to ask a question if it is in the context of a specific world I'm trying to build?
Do elves have to be 'perfect', because of their immortality? <- This question has been closed. From the comments posted under this question I understand (please correct me if I'm wrong) ...
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How to make a clear difference between open ended questions and asking for reasoning?
So, I have a question I wish to ask, but I'm afraid it will get a negative reaction since it's...iffy.
The question itself I want to ask is along the lines of: 'How would a coalition of benevolent ...
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Who’s making the rules, WorldBuilding or SE?
I was looking through questions on Stack Exchange Meta, trying to see if I could get a better feel for this site, when I noticed the following comment in this question (Idea Refinement: Clarification ...
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Is posting a question that's a revise of a previous one allowed?
I have a previously asked question that, put simply, both were horrible and received horribly. It was too unrealistic for it to make sense. But I've been doing more research and I believe I can make ...
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Can AI software be used to proofread?
I understand and agree that AI generated questions and answers are and should be banned however, my question is: does this apply to all AI assisted uses? For example if a user were to draft a question ...
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Is it ok to slightly refine my questions that already have accepted answers?
I'm considering editing my past questions to remove extraneous details like unnecessary lore. Since most of my questions already have accepted answers, I'm concerned that mass editing would violate ...
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What were the 2 major rules changes in the last 9 years?
After browsing this site for a while, I noticed that there are many old questions that would be decidedly too broad for this SE's current rules, many of which are 9 years old or more, such as 1, 2, 3 ...
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