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Magic is primarily opinion-based by definition, so what does a POB VTC mean?
Magic questions can be answered objectively if:
Rules of magic are stated, and question is about their internal consistency.
Rules of magic are stated, and question is about physical / biological ...
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Magic is primarily opinion-based by definition, so what does a POB VTC mean?
My take on opinion-based questions is the following:
A question is "primarily opinion-based" if every reasonable answer would be exactly equally valid.
There are quite a few problems with opinion-...
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Putting opinion based questions on hold, too fast
I think collectively we need to be putting questions on hold much faster, not slower. Either that or we should have a moratorium on answering until it is settled what the question actually is asking.
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Are we closing too many questions?
I do think that there have been some over-zealous closures recently, but generally we strike the right balance. We do need to be careful both not to close questions that should be open and to open ...
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Putting opinion based questions on hold, too fast
Putting question on hold is not the end of that specific question
When question is put on hold, you just cannot answer it.
However, if author of such question corrects that question, it can be ...
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Does the low tolerance for opinion-based questions make the tag reality-check unnecessary?
No. Reality-check means that the answers can pick holes in the question’s premise. Such questions may be somewhat different in nature, as well.
I think you misunderstood the meaning of the tag.
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How do we reconcile "rate my plausibility" questions with "primarily opinion-based" questions?
How can we be more granular about indicating these questions that are based on plausibility?
I believe that it has to be on the asker to provide that information.
If you're asking a question like ...
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Opinion-based close text, should we customize it?
No, but not for the reasons you might think
The opinion-based VTC reason is a network-wide close reason. It can't be customized on a per-Stack basis. Yes, SE could change the code to permit it to ...
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Are ideas about proposed world social structures inherently "primarily opinion-based"?
Since I was the fifth close vote, I'll identify the items that caught my attention as problematic.
The question specifically calls out that the asker is "looking for ideas" for a solution. This means ...
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Are we closing too many questions?
A year and a half ago, there was an interesting discussion of redefining "too broad" here on Meta. What I find a bit worrying is that the conclusions (or notions) come to in that discussion appear ...
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Are we closing too many questions?
Personally, I've noticed a lot of new users on the site within the last couple of weeks. While this is a good thing, these low rep users have been responsible for asking a lot of questions which are ...
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Why was my question closed as primarily opinion-based?
I think your question needs to be more explicit (especially in the title) that it's looking for the process of naming a location rather than looking for a name.
"I have this city, what do I call it" -...
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Why was my question closed as primarily opinion-based?
I think I have a litmus test for what constitutes a "primarily opinion-based" question.
Ask yourself: "What would a wrong answer to this question be?"
For the process of a place name developing, ...
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Is a question with an implausible or logically flawed premise opinion-based?
We really need to start reading between the lines in some cases.
At its core, this flawed premise of the large spider really has some key components even if not explicitly stated.
A particular type ...
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Let me know what part of my question is opinion-based so I can fix it
I honestly don't agree that your query is terribly opinion-based. I think your root question: what specific actions can the rulers take?, given the constraints of culture, history, and technology, is ...
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Are questions opinion-based when asking about the behaviour of people in the aggregate?
First - because leaving this unsaid would bug me - "whatever you want the plot to do" is grounds for closure for being too story-based, rather than primarily opinion-based. An example of the ...
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Are ideas about proposed world social structures inherently "primarily opinion-based"?
Opinion-based Question very often involve the Respondent's own inferences because the question doesn't describe enough
Last year, year before, we had a huge meta discussion about the relative merits ...
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Opinion-based close text, should we customize it?
Update the question so it can be answered with facts and citations. This will help others answer the question.
I concur about "facts and citations" being just slightly inappropriate in this ...
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Aren't all questions and answers about alien culture opinion based? Or magic, for that matter?
Not necessarily, if you provide your evaluation metric.
Example:
What is the best way to commute to work?
This is opinion based: car, bike, bus, walk are all good answers, and there is no way to ...
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Putting opinion based questions on hold, too fast
At possible risk of being downvoted, closed or banned (IMHO, the criteria are clear as mud), I'll venture an opinion in two parts:
1. Worldbuilding as a topic is fundamentally different from many ...
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Understanding our double standard regarding some opinion based questions
For me, this question is on the edge. I see this point why this question should be left open:
It solves actual problem many worldbuilders faced: The question was asked by myself several times: "I ...
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Understanding our double standard regarding some opinion based questions
Philosophy is not opinion. Which philosophy one prefers may be, but a philosophy needs to be logical and consistent.
This question seems to go to the very heart of building this individual's world....
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Is a question with an implausible or logically flawed premise opinion-based?
All exposition/examples aside, let's look at the real question here:
Is a question with an implausible or logically flawed premise opinion-based?
To this my answer is absolutely no. When a question ...
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Why is "brainstorming" in of itself against the rules -- why was my question closed as "opinion based"?
In short, your question seems to be asking to write your world intentions in your stead. Constraints and intentions are a huge part to one's artistic activity, and we can't either reasonably induce or ...
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Why is "brainstorming" in of itself against the rules -- why was my question closed as "opinion based"?
It's All in the Writing
So, I think the basic answer to your underlying problem is simply a matter of you writing a query whose form is not a good fit for Worldbuilding. My plan here is to pick out a ...
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How do we reconcile "rate my plausibility" questions with "primarily opinion-based" questions?
I had a question on the skittery edge of impossible, but I asked for possible science back-up on it. Can we use science to explain a creature that feeds on emotion?
I would have liked a tag called ...
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Understanding our double standard regarding some opinion based questions
EDIT: I find this question on Meta to be relevant:
Is the ultimate goal of Stack Exchange really to build a knowledge base for Googlers, not to help individual users (even if they ask good questions)...
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Understanding our double standard regarding some opinion based questions
While I agree that the problem you're talking about exists, I don't think it does here.
What the OP of that question seems to need is perspective. I'd almost say the question should be closed for ...
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Putting opinion based questions on hold, too fast
OK... here's one that I think SHOULD be closed as "primarily opinion based", even if we relaxed the rules for WorldBuilding as compared to other SE forums.
I have no idea what "spark reptilian DNA ...
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Hot or Not - the Opinion based question, the sandbox game
If a new nation on an artificial island was founded, what kinds of names might it be given?
User @Kevin believes his question is not opinion-based
I answered that I think it IS opinion-based ... AND ...
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