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A Proposal to End the Love/Hate Relationship with Brainstorming, AKA List questions, Idea-Generation, and Fishing-for-Ideas
Preliminary Information
Before I begin, I want to make a clear distinction insofar as I understand the principal purpose of this Stack (the following closely fits the rules as defined in the Tour and ...
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Advice to Querents asking "is X plausible or realistic?"
A July 2022 renovation of the reality-check tag and others has changed the context of this question. It is now obsolete. Please see the following question and the link under "Conclusion." If ...
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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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Advice concerning questions asking HOW to implement a technological procedure or device
Though not terribly common, there are occasionally questions where the querent asks either how to implement technology or whether or not their suggested implementation is viable, practical, feasible, ...
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Cultural Worldbuilding: How to avoid closure?
I'm hoping to encourage more questions about cultural world building, but cultural world building suffers greatly from being too broad, primarily opinion-based, and too story-based.
One recent ...
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Are "how would X explain Y?" questions on-topic?
I just read How would a physicist explain this starship engine?. I actually like the question, but I wonder if it's opening a bag of worms?
The Cons I See
When I asked the community about the "...
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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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