Questions tagged [questions]
This tag is for general questions about questions. Answers should be applicable to the vast majority of questions. Do not use this tag for questions on a single question, use the [specific-question] tag instead.
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What should we do with humour in questions?
Here an example of question I revised:
https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/9127
Personally I thought it was confusing because of all the necessary information in it. My ...
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How can we get new users to answer old questions?
Hear me out on this. It's not what you'd expect.
On Worldbuilding, we have an extremely low amount of Unanswered Questions, typically hovering around zero.1 The longest I've ever seen a question stay ...
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Are discussion oriented questions authorized?
I read this question:
https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/21161/cliche-world-who-would-you-be-and-why
And I wondered if it were okay. Can we authorize questions which lead to ...
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Alarming number of questions (related)
Related to the alarm about a large number of edits...
I want to ask a second question in the last five minutes. Would that be considered rude?
Hypothetically, what if I asked 35 questions tonight, ...
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How do I create open ended questions with subjective answers?
I wanted to ask an open ended question whose answer will be entirely subjective. But I think the question and answer would be beneficial to the site. This is technically something that should be ...
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Is it an idea generation and thus off-topic?
I'm fairly new here, and I am not entirely sure what makes a question on-topic or off-topic. Particularly when they are at the edge. But Looking at the Ragnarok question (which I tried to answer). To ...
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What are the qualities of a great question?
After providing an answer to this recent site-favorite question, I got to wondering about what makes some questions so much more popular than others. As of this writing, we have 14 questions with at ...
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Should we settle for an 'okay' number of questions per day?
My question today has essentially already been asked. The reason I've decided to ask it again in a different question is because the question mentioned was asked 6 months ago, and also that what I'm ...
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Do the titles of questions need to be in question format?
The whole point of stack exchange is that it is a Q&A style site, and an overwhelming majority of questions have a question as a title. This is surely a nit-picky thing but it really bugs me when ...
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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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Clarify what off-topic really means
In this close review, I had some trouble with the close reason that my fellow close-voters gave.
The question is about an event which could happen in a world. Yes, it's earth, but we have an earth-...
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Answering your own question as a baseline
If I want to ask something that I already know (albeit partially, assume I want to know better answer), is it wise to ask it and answered it, on which the answer is supposed to be the baseline and ...
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"Resource ID" questions
SF.SE has a (hotly debated) story-identification tag, used for questions about speculative fiction works which the querent vaguely recalls but can't find on their own.
We could help people track down ...
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How Long until a question should quit being updated?
I have a tendency to go back after my questions are answered for a couple weeks if I see room for improvements. My question is a simple one, it is: What is the best practice amount of time to go back ...
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Should we have weekly topic challenges?
A long time ago (four months) on a site far, far away (roughly two clicks), a great suggestion was made. Jon Ericson came up with the idea of weekly topic challenges. For those not willing to make the ...
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Inactive Sandbox 2014-2017
This sandbox got a little full, so we've created some more. You should still link to this one as we will update it whenever a new one is created.
Current Sandbox:
Sandbox for proposed Questions
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How to deal with "funny questions"?
I am in nit-picking mode today.
While my question about Christmas on Mars got great reception and loads of positive votes, and personally I totally enjoyed answering both questions about dining ...
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How many questions here are really about worldbuilding?
Some of the recent questions on Worldbuilding have been interesting, and not just content-wise. Lately, we've had quite a few questions that seem (at best) tangentially related to building a world, ...
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What's wrong with "idea generation" questions?
We now have a dedicated "Idea Generation" close vote/flag reason!! What does it mean?
What is the problem with "idea generation" questions?
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Do we want "effects" questions?
There is a type of question on this site, that asks something like "given these parameters, what would be the effect on society?" A recent example of this type of question was one Monty Wild asked. In ...
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Please help review our oft-answered questions [closed]
The Community user, which neither slumbers nor sleeps, alerts moderators to questions that are attracting lots of answers. Sometimes this is just fine, even healthy, of course. Other times it can ...
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Where are the questions on magic?
As of writing this, we have 330 questions. 113 of these are tagged science-based. Only 23 are tagged magic. Additionally, almost every question that isn't explicitly tagged either, could be seen as ...
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'More Ideas' questions
I have a question brewing in my head, and already written up, and I wanted to check and see if it would seem appropriate here. I know that a question like this would not be appropriate over on Stack ...
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When to use in-universe point of view?
Assistance to fight off a silicon-based lifeform was asked from an in-universe point of view, and another user added a comment to the question that suggested making the in-universe approach "the ...
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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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Community wikis - are they ever a possibility?
After seeing this question on shared worlds and this one, I'm wondering whether such questions are better handled as community wikis, or even if they would be on-topic if broad enough to work as ...
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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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Worlds in development with deep background
A person building a world may have put in a lot of work, written a lot of background, and then become stuck with a particular problem that depends heavily on that background.
If a problem is such ...
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Are questions about characters and personalities on-topic?
A fictional world is more than just the physical setting and the biological and psychological nature of whatever inhabitants it may have, it may also be filled with people, each with their own ...
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What about my question makes it "not about worldbuilding"?
So far, my question Is there a credible way a shapeshifter could gain/lose body mass when changing forms? has received eight upvotes, one downvote, and two close votes (both as "This question does not ...
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Hypothetical situations and broad questions
I am seeing alot of questions that are very broad like in case of X what would happen, or if the world were made of X then how would life evolve?
I think we need to be extra careful to ask more ...
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