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Should questions about painfully killing people be welcomed on this site?

Specific question in discussion: gruesome execution by slow dissolution in low-concentration acid solution But lets talk more generic: Questions of how to kill a person, or set of people are ...
Pavel Janicek's user avatar
19 votes
4 answers
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Should we be mindful of potentially dangerous questions?

What is the least expensive way to annihilate humanity? While perfectly within the realm of worldbuilding, do we really want to answer these sorts of questions? Imagine if someone were to give a ...
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Let's talk about sexploitation questions

I have seen some questions that just stand out as not belonging in WB (nor Stack Exchange, nor any other Q&A sites) and that have one characteristic in common: they seem to be coming from a (...
The Square-Cube Law's user avatar
19 votes
4 answers
536 views

Why do we [torture] ourselves with this tag?

I don't see how torture can be used for world building. The tag text says: For questions about the application of mental or physical suffering, usually without the intent to kill. I'm trying to ...
The Square-Cube Law's user avatar
8 votes
5 answers
299 views

A proposal to establish policy regarding the torture and execution tags

Although most questions tagged torture and execution are unquestionably well within the scope of Worldbuilding, some were or might have been inappropriate causing a discussion about the validity of ...
JBH's user avatar
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6 votes
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Should questions requesting help creating a terrorist attack be answered? [duplicate]

I feel requests asking for help plotting a terrorist attack or a possibly real crime should be considered Off Topic for our site, because, if somebody really does come up with a great idea and it ...
Thom Blair III's user avatar
1 vote
3 answers
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Answer contains description of real-life animal torture and my edit request was denied. Is such content acceptable?

A user posted a pretty disturbing description of actual animal torture in an answer. Instead of flagging the whole answer I tried to remove the offending passage while keeping the actual answer, but ...
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25 votes
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PSA: Please use those flags!

While it's still as true as ever that flags and close votes are not super downvotes (or even super delete votes; standard policy for moderators in response to "please delete this" flags is to decline),...
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What are the new policies of worldbuilding?

Someone told me that there are new policies of WB,I missed that,Please someone share me a link to the new policies so i wont break the rules.
Seraph Myrmidon's user avatar
3 votes
0 answers
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Are questions about torture ok? [duplicate]

A method to cause maximum pain to a human asks how to cause the most pain to a human while torturing him to death. The question lays out parameters, including not wanting the person to go out of his ...
Monica Cellio's user avatar