Questions tagged [close-reasons]
For discussion about why a specific question was closed or about what constitutes a reason for closure.
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How to deal with "Please develop my High Concept" questions?
"Hello Community... I have a great idea for my Worldbuilding. Assume Earth and history as we know it, but in my world, Hitler died from whooping cough as a baby. What is my world like after this ...
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Why is my question "Too Story Based" and how do I get it opened?
See also: When should I close a question as "Too Story Based"?
Asking about plot elements such as the actions of characters, rather than about the world in which your story takes place, is ...
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Enough is enough. NOBODY can obey rules that are only in someone's head [duplicate]
Relating to this question.
Since when can a question be closed for poor quality? The two respondants to my challenge to justify the closure said that it's just a physics question (which we answer ...
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Are we too harsh on the so-called "opinion-based" questions?
Let me start from the disclaimer that I understand perfectly well that questions like "what color an invading alien armada spaceships would be" or "what would my superhero decide to do ...
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So, I started with joke and people took it seriously. What can be done with the question?
Today, I got idea for a joke. Worldbuilding moderators are taking over the world!
So, I posted it as a question
Inspired by Facebook sysadmins preventing Cthulhu, my original idea was, that joke ...
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Back It Up! policies
The Good Subjective/Bad Subjective guidelines talk a lot about what make for great questions and answers for subjective issues, and it primarily falls around Back It Up!: answers need to cite some ...
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Idea Refinement: Clarification and Examples of VTC Reasons for New Users
This page was written before the late 2019 changes to close-voting. However, much of the information is still relevant. -JBH
The Welcome to Worldbuilding.SE! page for new users is up and running. My ...
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"Question Closed: Too Broad" despite numerous clarifications and stipulations
The question of interest is here: All Else Equal, would certain human types be better suited for living in an Ice Age?
I'm not trying to be a poor sport or anything. In the past, I have had several ...
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What Am I Doing Wrong?
I have asked a dozen questions now and have received negative feedback on most of them, with each question having at least one vote to close, and others getting down votes. I am especially frustrated ...
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How was the question on a lethal joke off-topic when most [weapons] are on-topic?
I am referring to this:
• Could a joke be funny enough to kill?
Please discuss.
I actually liked this question. We don't see much describing its placement in its world, but it was my understanding ...
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Why are 'plausible magic' questions so poorly received?
Let's say I have a question such as the following:
I want my race of fantasy avians to have a crest of beautiful, long, iridescent feathers. If I don't care how they came to be in the first place (...
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"I have an implausible end goal. Please tell me how to get there!!"
Plausible Weapon or Other to Cause Space-stage Civilization to Shatter and Revert to Primitive Societies
Since I am horrible at coming up with ideas, I couldn't think of a circumstance or weapon ...
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A Plea for Consistent Close-Voting
I don't believe it's a surprise to anyone that I'm an advocate of swift question closure. I'd rather have a chance to help a user produce a great question than suffer the problems that come with ...
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Questions that show a lack of basic research
This question on Dreaming was asked recently. Lets ignore the fact that its also off topic for now. When I googled the question I found that the top result was a comprehensive and well referenced ...
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Are questions about the ideal strategy for a dictator story-based?
I asked this question, and after almost a dozen answers, it got closed for being story-based. Mind, I'm quite satisfied with the response I got before that happened, so the reason I'm asking is merely ...
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I disagree with this question reason of closure
This question of mine got marked as primarily opinion-based. As I couldn't understand why, I asked for clarification in the comments, but received none. I do agree with @kingledion that it might be a ...
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Proposal: ALL questions start "on hold" for 1 hour
I do not know if there is a way to adjust the SE software to accommodate this request, but this idea has come up REPEATEDLY in multiple meta discussions, so I'm formally proposing it.
ALL new ...
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How can questions be closed as being "primarily opinion-based" on Worldbuilding?
This question was fueled by the following question being put on hold: Reason for magical abilities. However, my meta question below applies to the pob close vote reason in general and I do not wish to ...
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Why is my question not about building a world?
My first question on this site has been put on hold because I am "asking questions about a story set in a world instead of about building a world". I read the linked explanation on meta, but I don't ...
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When should I close a question as "Too Story Based"?
See also: Why is my question "Too Story Based" and how do I get it opened?
What criteria should I use when closing a question as Too Story Based?
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Are there inconsistent standards for closing physics questions?
This question recently got put on hold and it's made me notice a pattern where some physics questions that are asked by newer users get closed. Now, this is not necessarily an awful thing in and of ...
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Is it possible and reasonable to add "This is a high concept question" to the list of community-specific reasons to close a question?
Edit: An incredibly valuable example of why we should add "This is a high concept question" to the VTC reasons is this question: What would happen if the salt in the oceans disappeared? The ...
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Site Policy: Judging When a Question is a Duplicate
For anyone who knows the kind of question I post, I put a great deal of effort into making sure a question is unique. I check the site for similar questions to see if those answer the one I would ...
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How to deal with changing close-vote reasons
I love seeing users edit their on hold/closed questions after getting some feedback about how to improve them, all the more so if in doing so they resolve the initial problem. However, it's not ...
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How do we define "building a world" in this meta?
So going through a few questions, I came across a question I felt was too story based and one that was closed as a result, and didn't really have anything to do with building a world.Being as new as I ...
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Debate on the relevance of law-related questions
I've seen a couple law-related questions closed recently for being "not worldbuilding", not all of them my own, so I would appreciate a clarification of the rules. I have identified several ...
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The problem with opinion based questions
I've seen a few questions, including my own, being closed for being 'too opinion based'.
My question is, what's wrong with that? I think that in the SE philosophy opinion based questions are bad ...
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Does "What are the implications?..." = Idea generation?
[To be clear, plenty of good questions are posed: "what are the implications on _____", or "what are the _____impliations?" I've got no problem with those. It's the un-scoped "what are the ...
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How to make a "Fishing for Ideas" question fit on Worldbuilding Main
Being the most creative and imaginative Stack in the Stack Exchange library has a handful of disadvantages. Stack Exchange's basic behavior is to expect a single objective and answerable question that ...
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Why my question about Orbital Pizza Delivery is off-topic?
I recently posted Orbital Pizza Delivery.
It got closed as off-topic. It was claimed that it was more properly related to Physics.SE.
Yet, the questions below seem fine, even when dealing mostly ...
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"This question has multiple issues"
Sadly, there is always a steady influx of low quality questions, but that is not just on this corner on the SE network.
I want to know if a review behaviour I have used for a while is reasonable, or ...
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Why was the jaguar armour question closed?
Would a taxidermied jaguar make decent armour?
The question was closed without explanation, and I am making a Meta post hoping to find out why.
Questions along the lines of "would this material ...
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Can a "too story-based" question be saved with the "In a world..." defense?
We have a rule that says that is a question is more centered on a story than on a world, then there should be a Vote To Close for being off-topic.
For example: How to safely check if you are ...
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Is there hard data on close votes?
I'm wondering if there's any data/statistics on the percentage of close votes that age away vs end in closure vs end with the question being reopened here on Worldbuilding. Perhaps even some breakdown ...
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When are software-recommendation questions on topic?
This question about alternatives to wikis (to use to build an encyclopedia of one's world) is currently on hold. This question about map-making software is currently open. Both are software-...
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"Close >> migrate to another SE" : please add Physics SE and Biology SE as options
When we vote to close a question, one of the options is to move the question to another Stack Exchange. But the only one listed is Meta.Worldbuilding. The two I most frequently wish were there are ...
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Question closed as dupe when it isn’t
I just recently asked the following question:
In a world without humans—or any caretakers—would domestic house pets simply regress into being feral or die?
Which has been closed as a duplicate of ...
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How should we respond to dead links?
I saw this answer containing a dead link to a website with lots of ads that does not redirect (I used a redirect tracker. So how can we alert the mods to delete it?
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Aren't some questions becoming too localized?
Some questions like the following seem to be valueless to anybody except the question poster which is strictly against SE mentality where a question should hold value for all future readers and not ...
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Closed question "This question needs details or clarity" but without explanation of what should be more detailed of clarified
This question has been closed with the reason: "This question needs details or clarity"
I had already replied in the comments some clarifications. It is not clear to me though what further ...
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How to be a close voter
The value of precedent
One of the most important principles in organizing a just society is the equally applicable rule of law. Worldbuilding is, while perhaps seeming trivial compared to a nation, ...
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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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Too broad? Crashing Earth into the sun
So I came across this question asking about how the make the Earth hit the sun. It has many similar posts like this one about changing the moon's orbit or this answer about moving asteroids which ...
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Inconsistency in closure of story-based questions
I don't want to encourage extra closures and I certainly don't want to close any of the following. In fact I prefer to keep them open.
How would a superhero who needs to fall asleep to use his powers ...
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Is "What land animal a large pack of trained war dogs can't kill?" a good fit for the site?
What land animal a large pack of trained war dogs can't kill?
This question seems like a classic "List of X" problem, but it's scoped so strangely that the list could go on forever, or contain ...
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What is “too story based”?
What is the current litmus test and general consensus on a Q being “too story based”? I see many Q's do involve story to some extent but the close reason is “too story based”.
I'm using the “Joe” ...
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Why is "Why would a fire dragon still be afraid of torches?" not opinion-based?
Over the weekend, I noticed this question about why dragons would be afraid of fire. To me, it seemed like a pretty clear-cut case of an opinion-based question. There are currently 17 answers, each of ...
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Why is everyone suddenly so strongly against homework questions?
This meta question has sparked a flurry of responses saying we need to get tough on homework questions being asked under the guise of worldbuilding. This argument has come up several times in the 'are ...
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Are ideas about proposed world social structures inherently "primarily opinion-based"?
I read, and liked the question about Courier Ethics. I liked it enough to actually try and answer it. Later I returned to the question as a result of a comment on my answer. It took a minute before I ...
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Why don't people explain votes to close?
It looks like Can I have snow "near" (somewhere with the climate of) San Diego? is going to be closed due to "lack of clarity". I don't understand why it is unclear, and despite requests for ...
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