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Is strict moderating discouraging newer members to add to the community?
I'm one of the mods here, but I have a tendency to stay away from unilaterally closing questions from anyone, at least immediately after they've been asked. The big problem with me voting to close, of ...
HDE 226868Mod
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How to stop a moderator when they have too much power?
Let's have a short recap of your deeds:
you post several questions which are poorly thought and a poor fit for this community
said questions get closed and downvoted, resulting in your profile being ...
L.DutchMod
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Is it OK to take a question asked in another SE site & rephrase it for WB?
While it's true that the general rule is that posting the same question on multiple sites in the network is discouraged (and at least Unix & Linux SE has that as a specific reason to close a ...
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Can we add "Logically Self-Contradicting" as a reason for closeure
I do not recommend closing these questions
Many of the questions we see on the site do demonstrate a lack of knowledge in the topic being asked about. If the question is asked in good faith and ...
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Is strict moderating discouraging newer members to add to the community?
I've got a few thoughts on this too, although I'm not a moderator so the answers you've gotten from L.Dutch and HDE may be more what you're looking for.
The challenge here is in error rates - because ...
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Accepted
Are justification questions off-topic?
While there's nothing explicitly wrong with asking how to justify something, however a lot of questions asking for justification of x aren't a good fit for other reasons. It's similar to how questions ...
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Is strict moderating discouraging newer members to add to the community?
One of the moderators here.
Back in the first times of the Internet, it was good practice, when joining an internet community, to spend some time just lurking around and observing the behaviors in ...
L.DutchMod
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Is strict moderating discouraging newer members to add to the community?
Do you think newer people could/should get some "getting-used-to-it"-time so they can explore the ins and outs of the site and how to partake properly?
Not only on Stack Exchange sites, but in all ...
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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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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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Proposing a tag for worldbuilding questions that use existing worlds
The original question in May 2019 asking for a policy clarification listed a number of issues:
Pros:
It expands the number of questions people may bring to our stack.
It increases the visibility of ...
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Proposing a tag for worldbuilding questions that use existing worlds
Food for Thought at KeizerHarm's Tag Sale
I think my answer to the other question addresses the issues of overzealousness of rule & Policy application.
To summarize: I concur with your position ...
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Is there a rule prohibiting “follow-ups”
Yes
When you say "follow-up" I assume what you mean is that, within a single post, you're asking a "main question" with one or more "follow-up" questions. I say this ...
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Is it OK to take a question asked in another SE site & rephrase it for WB?
The general rule on Stack Exchange is that cross-posting the same question on different sites is discouraged. That said, that isn't a hard and fast rule and if you are looking for a different ...
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Is strict moderating discouraging newer members to add to the community?
The purpose of closing posts is to give you a chance to improve your question before people start submitting inappropriate answers
There isn't a "nice" way to deal with the educational process —...
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A Concise List of "The Rules"
The Wyes and Wear Fours
On this point:
"The question should inspire answers that explain "why" and "how."" However, this Stack is much better at answering "how"...
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Why is "brainstorming" in of itself against the rules -- why was my question closed as "opinion based"?
Stack Exchanges is an opinionated platform. It has been designed to be strict about the questions that are permitted on a site. Certain categories of questions are prohibited sitewide. Important for ...
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Is there a rule prohibiting “follow-ups”
Yes there are rules prohibiting multiple questions
If you are talking about this question, and that by follow-ups you mean asking multiple questions that follow one another, the answer is no, you ...
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Are we helping or hurting Worldbuilding with these rules?
OPINIONS --- the Joy and Bane of Worldbuilding
I've been active here for a couple years and have often, perhaps to the point of ticking some people off, argued against the Closure for Being Opinion ...
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How to stop a moderator when they have too much power?
More often than not, conflicts can be resolved by talking to each other.
If you would like to talk to a moderator 1 on 1, go to chat, open a new chatroom and invite the person in question.
If you ...
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Why is "brainstorming" in of itself against the rules -- why was my question closed as "opinion based"?
To add to the other answers, Stack Exchange has a number of rules that are the basis for our no brainstorming policy. From the Help Center we read:
To prevent your question from being flagged and ...
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A Concise List of "The Rules"
I have 2 points to make:
While it is nice to have someone attempt to compile existing interpretations of the rules, this should be moderators' job. As it is now, this compilation and commentary are ...
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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)...
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Is it OK to take a question asked in another SE site & rephrase it for WB?
The basic answer to your question is sure, modify the question to meet the expectations of Worldbuilding.SE and there's no problem.
But I have a problem with your reason to do so. You asked the ...
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Is strict moderating discouraging newer members to add to the community?
I have been on scifi stackexchange for some time and only now learnt of worldbuilding. A new user may not know how to approach so many boards and ask the right question. There are a few moderators who ...
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Can we add "Logically Self-Contradicting" as a reason for closeure
While I can understand the reasoning for wanting to close these questions, you can usually solve this problem by asking the Asker to expand, clarify, and reword their question. Let me borrow your ...
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