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10 questions linked to/from When and how to challenge the back story?
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Real Life cannot be an overriding limitation on any question unless specifically requested
I have finally found the perfect question to kick-start this discussion concerning what I believe is a growing undesirable behavior on Worldbuilding
How can the Sea of Japan be drained?
The OP wasn'...
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Considered harmful: questions where the asker expects us to figure out a scientific explanation or alternative for their handwavium
Latest offender: Need counters for a near perfect Anti Thermal and Kinetic armor system in a near future setting
Another example: Could alien organisms evolve to utilize Thermoelectric cooling(the ...
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Should we warn about (presumably unintended) parallels with racist tropes?
Somebody asked a question asking about a fictional humanoid race. To my eyes, the premise of this fictional race has strong parallels with a real-world early 20th century racist stereotype of African-...
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Died of a Theory: A Challenge for Too Story Based and Fishing for Ideas Questions
I wanted to test a theory. I wanted to see what would happen if a question that asked for a narrow list of ideas would react on the site now that a week or two of my previous meta post asking how to ...
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Should we remove the [tag:alternate-history] tag?
I read this question about technological advancement in an alternate history.
It was closed as too broad, and rightly so. It was too broad.
Thanks to @MichaelKjörling for getting an accurate count ...
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How am I supposed to get people to use "facts and citations" for a question about a completely fictional environment?
Relating to This question, how can I ask contributors to include "facts and citations" in a question about a completely fictional world?
It's science fiction, so all facts are relative to ...
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Case Study: The Consequence of Inadequate Comments
UPDATE: Amber's original question has been undeleted and the new question closed as a duplicate. It looks like that new question has since been deleted (honestly, it didn't need to be this complicated....
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Are frame challenges in comments disallowed, and if so by what policy, and can this be more clearly communicated to users?
(I am setting this up as a separate question to focus on this issue alone, without being mixed with other stuff.)
It has recently come to my attention that at least some moderators consider frame ...
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What level of detail should questions have?
Before anybody can effectively solve a problem; they need to know what the problem is. That is true in real life, and that is true in Stack Exchange. As a result, there are rules that questions should ...
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Is an edit to the three Science tag wikis warranted?
A recent question posited a fantastic condition then used the science-based tag. In essense, the author wanted a science-based solution to a problem that wasn't science-based in the first place.
We've ...
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