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This is about the What topics can I ask about here? page in the site's help center.

Back in 2010, Robert Cartaino posted a Stack Exchange blog post titled Good Subjective, Bad Subjective. That post talks about how hard it is to have subjective questions, and outlines half a dozen guidelines that helps define a good subjective question. Since Worldbuilding is, by definition, a rather subjective site (few of our questions have hard answers that are either "right" or "wrong"; it's more of a continuum than a binary either/or situation), I propose that we add a link to that post to our help center article.

Currently, the help center article says, in part:

Note that questions must be specific as well as answerable. If you are looking for discussion, brainstorming, or an overall process rather than specific question-and-answers, the Worldbuilding Stack Exchange might not be a good place for your question.

How does the community feel about such a change?

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I propose that we change the relevant paragraph to:

Note that questions must be specific as well as answerable. If you are looking for discussion, brainstorming, or an overall process rather than specific question-and-answers, the Worldbuilding Stack Exchange might not be a good place for your question. Such questions may however be welcome in Worldbuilding Chat. Also see Good Subjective, Bad Subjective for why this type of question is hard, and some guidelines on how to post good subjective questions which are less likely to end up being closed.

(Feel free to make minor adjustments to the phrasing here, but if you wish to state a difference of opinion, make that a separate answer so that community voting works!)

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