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A Concise List of "The Rules"

The question must be about the rules of your world, not a story based in your world or the actions/choices/development of any character. (Sources: "Too Story Based" close reason, Help Center) Your w …
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Creating a specific tag for questions set in a "real world" or "real world"-esque setting

A lot of stories are set in worlds that are like reality unless noted. These are settings in which the geopolitical situation is virtually identical to the modern world (minus the presence of a few sm …
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Is it possible and reasonable to add "This is a high concept question" to the list of commun...

I'm not entirely sure. The reason for this is whether a question is a high-concept question or not can vary wildly depending on context. There are minor background details in many stories that can and …
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Should we think long and hard about [sex]?

As the person who asked the question I thought it might be worth putting in my two cents on the whole issue. In general, I tried to keep the question as clinical as possible and about as erotic as a m …
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Minimum necessary context for answering questions and interlinked questions on Worldbuilding SE

Something I've noticed recently on Worldbuilding SE is an increase in the number of interlinked questions that require reading the parent question in order to get complete context for answering the qu …
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Synonymizing the werewolf and shape-shifters tag

We currently have two tags, werewolf and shapeshifters, which have a very large amount of overlap with the former more or less being a subset of the latter. There are only seven questions on the werew …
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Debate on the relevance of law-related questions

Yes, They Are On-Topic Full Disclaimer: I am the user who posted the Spider-Man question I would argue that questions regarding legal reaction to supernatural phenomena are on-topic for Worldbuilding …
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A proposal to establish policy regarding the torture and execution tags

Adding to the discussion about "Stack Overflow has a policy of making things appropriate for 13 years old or older", I think one aspect we may be overlooking is that even though you have to be 13 years …
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A proposal to establish policy regarding the torture and execution tags

It kind of feels like this is much to do about nothing. I was under the impression that both tags were gotten rid of, and in the time since I've been here I don't think I've seen one specifically tort …
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Modifying the Evolution tag wiki

Evolution is not a black box where anything can happen The problem with this is evolutionary biology isn't nearly as much of a black box as your question seems to suppose it is. We may not know all th …
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