Timeline for Checklist for the perfect answer - Idea refinement
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| Oct 4, 2017 at 0:17 | comment | added | Olga | I think you could specialise these two questions a bit more. For example, one could focus on consistency with technical specs provided by the OP and the other would talk about consistency with contemporary scientific knowledge. You could link the latter to the former to avoid repetition. | |
| Oct 2, 2017 at 17:21 | comment | added | user Mod | @JBH I'd rather not go into that much detail in these, myself; hopefully, [hard-science] questions will already have the hard-science notice, and for [science-based], this should be plenty sufficient. There's also the "sufficient reasoning to justify your answer" in Are you actually answering the question, within the constraints stated in the question? | |
| Oct 2, 2017 at 16:27 | comment | added | JBH | I could imagine this question being broken into at least two: (a) if the OP has used the science-based tag, is your answer consistent with or based on present-day knowledge? (b) If the OP has used the hard-science tag, is your answer specifically include the mathematics or justification necessary to meet the OP's needs? | |
| Oct 1, 2017 at 18:48 | history | edited | userMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 1, 2017 at 18:33 | history | edited | userMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 1, 2017 at 18:24 | comment | added | user Mod | @Secespitus Right; that's pretty much the distinction I had in mind when I added this one. "Constraints" can be about the "this world is flat, don't ask me why, just accept that" questions which explicitly state a constraint on answers; this is more about "if I don't explicitly say that faster-than-light travel is a thing, don't write answers assuming that it is". I think both are valid. | |
| Oct 1, 2017 at 16:03 | comment | added | Secespitus | I think it's worth it to mention this as a separate point. "Within the constraints" can be taken as "If the OP wants [stuff] to be round, don't answer that it would be easier if it wasn't round" while this point can specifically be used to illustrate that "if this were a fantasy novel you could explain it with magic" is not an answer if the question doesn't mention any kind of magic existing. We view science vs. magic as some kind of constraint - but for many new users this discrepancy is not clear when they come to this site. | |
| Oct 1, 2017 at 15:12 | comment | added | user Mod | This touches a little on the same things as Are you actually answering the question, within the constraints stated in the question?, and I'm not sure where exactly we might want to draw the line between the two. Feedback is appreciated! | |
| Oct 1, 2017 at 15:07 | history | answered | userMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |