Questions tagged [policy]
Indicates policy related questions or comment. Usage should be limited to matters of site policy, and not the theoretical policies or laws of a model government.
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Policy Clarification: Asking about commercial or third-party worlds
We have an unwritten rule that questions about commercial worlds (e.g. Star Wars, Star Trek, Babylon 5, etc.) should be asked on the Science Fiction & Fantasy stack.
Or we might have one. That's ...
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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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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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A Concise List of "The Rules"
"The rules" are spread across a number of locations. This post is an attempt to bring the basics of what this Stack expects of questions together into one place. Before I begin, please let ...
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What is "narrative necessity" and how does it apply to worldbuilding?
As a loose continuation of How best to deal with "what are you expecting?" questions, I believe many new authors don't understand the function of Narrative Necessity in their writing and how ...
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Are questions based on movies okay?
Are questions based on movies OK? More specifically, is something like this acceptable, or should it be kept in chat:
reality-check evolution creature-design
Anatomically correct (insert creature ...
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When and how to challenge the back story?
I was in the middle of answering this newly asked question when it was deleted by the author. It had been up for 30 minutes.
I can't read the OP's mind, but I suspect the question was closed because ...
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Is it Fair to Encourage People to NOT Answer Questions that Need to be Closed?
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WB.SE has a SE mandated format; the community has determined that certain rules need to apply to the asking and answering of questions; the community has in place certain policies & ...
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How far can we push the term worldbuilding?
I don’t know how much discussion has been on a topic like this already, but allow me to explain.
The term "world-building" was first used in the Edinburgh Review in December 1820 and ...
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Do people still need to see comments under graduated/abandoned question drafts in the Sandbox?
Recently there was a Meta discussion about Deletion of Comments from Sandbox? and according with Monica's comment I want to start a discussion about the usefulness of comments under graduated/...
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Yes, questions can be Too Localized. But usually they are at far greater risk of being Too Broad
Seriously, from the word go, we need to be pre-emptive about requiring people to ask specific enough questions that we can offer concise and definitive answers. For example, "How does one go about ...
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Do questions HAVE to be for some greater cause?
I love this stack. I've just recently gotten into it and have been absolutely enthralled with the deep discussions and thought provoking responses that I've witnessed in my short time here.
That ...
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End of beta soon?
This is from Area51:
Sites remain in beta for at least 90 days to build up a critical mass
of users, questions, and participation.
We are at day 86 and our stats are good. We have hit a ...
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What pictures do we like and dislike in a post?
I’ve seen posts containing (possibly large) pictures heavily downvoted and (now that I'm a ♦-mod) flagged. (Most recent example)
I’d like to have this topic be a reference for what the general WB ...
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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 ...
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Advice: How to ask for a review of your idea
Periodically we see questions of the following form:
After reading the back story and my description of my worldbuilding idea, what do you think?
I'm going to call this question type a Review My ...
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Is Worldbuilding a What if Site - a followup
For some this is a problem brewing, for some this is a problem that has brewed, for others, its sat on the desk going moldy from being ignored. What do I talk about? Well Is Worldbuilding a What If ...
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A tag for speculative questions
I was re-tagging questions and it occurred to me to make a speculative tag for all those questions that are "what if"s and the like.
Alarms went off in my head about what that encourages, considering ...
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Should we ban posts using ChatGPT or similar software?
Recently, the chatbot ChatGPT was released and experienced a surge in popularity. It's reasonably good at mimicking humans, and it has a database of information to draw on. The upshot is that you can ...
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Does the Stack wish to allow questions concerning the profession of worldbuilding?
EDIT: It appears that the question in question has been closed, then reopened, then closed again, and is a vote into reopening it a second time. We're pretty divided about permitting questions about &...
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Should workarounds be suggested when the question implies an impossibilty?
The title is awful but I couldn't come up with a better one, feel free to edit
What I'm wondering about is this: when presented with question such as this, this or this, where the answer is most ...
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Seeking community consensus about "Why would X lead to Y?" questions
While we've likely always had "Why would X lead to Y?" questions, it feels like we've had a lot of them lately. Here's a sample (the questions asked so far in October, some have been closed).
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Questions about [tag:psychology]
We are starting to have a problem with psychology questions. While the impact of events on a culture is part of Worldbuilding, you could easily write a thesis on even the smallest change and how it ...
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How best to deal with "what are you expecting?" questions
From time to time I run across a question like this one1 where it appears the OP hasn't taken the time to think about what kind of answer he/she is looking for.
It's not uncommon for these questions ...
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Systems of measurement
I've ran into several posts where the author used 2 systems in the same post. Personally, I use the metric/international system all the time. Other people might use other systems, namely the US system....
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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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The Rules and the Worldbuilding Resources Tag
Background
A recent question asked about designing the biological sexes of alien creatures. Not surprising in our world today, the OP's original question used the word "gender," even going ...
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Speculative but factual Books: Worldbuilding or not?
Reference question: Is an atmosphere's oxygen partial pressure or concentration more biologically significant?
While discussing with the OP why they were looking for so much detail the OP said the ...
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Clarification concerning a loophole in the Real World Question policy
Policy Reference: A proposal to finalize the "are real world questions on-topic" debate
Enlightening Comment: A proposal to finalize the "are real world questions on-topic" debate
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Canonical Delphicity is the line we must observe in judging third-party worlds
Entirely too much bandwidth and moderator time is being invested in quashing the victimless crime of using borrowed terms in a query under the false pretense that such terms invade some third-party ...
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