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Policy Change: Objective Storybuilding is Acceptable

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Sandbox for Proposed Questions

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Catalog of Question Types

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Military Doctrine vs Story Based/Character Action

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Is this website open-or-not to the realistic implications of fantastic scenarios?

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Policy Clarification: Asking about commercial or third-party worlds

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2023: a year in moderation

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Request to delete the "social acticities" tag

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Cultural Worldbuilding: How to avoid closure?

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Time for an "Obsolete" Notification?

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If we can't burn the "reality check" tag, can we rename it?

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The Scale of Hard Sci Fi

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Do we need the reality-check tag? [2017 - obsolete]

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Does [hard-science] imply [science-based] imply [reality-check]? [2015 - obsolete]

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How are we, as worldbuilders, meant to handle readers/commenters who have non-conventional opinions and viewpoints?

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How can a question be "Too Story Based" if there is no story involved?

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Community wikis - are they ever a possibility?

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Why isn't the Hyperbolic time chamber question brainstorming?

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"Why should I depend on my minions?" Being closed

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Advice: Math and the Zen of Worldbuilding

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Commenting on a conflict in an old question?

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When writing supernatural/horror aspects, how to avoid people being 'rationalist' and frame challenging everything?

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What is the [power-scaling] tag?

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When worldbuilding deliberately flawed societies/economies, how to avoid people missing the point and frame challenging everything?

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Proposal: "Crab-in-a-Can" questions, an exemption to the third-party worlds rule

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Does the AI-generated content ban extend to improving questions

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Are there any countries as "worldbuilding" as Australia?

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Are 'Roleplay' or In-World Perspective questions allowed?

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Are deliberately satirical/farcical/ludicrous settings 'permissible'?

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Strictly speaking, does the term "worldbuilding" encompass "micro-settings"?

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Why have these off-topic questions not been closed?

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Clarification: RMIQ and Creature Design

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Is it only permissible to ask a question if it is in the context of a specific world I'm trying to build?

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Anatomically Correct Series

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If a question is closed as Too Story-Based, does it automatically belong on Writing Stack Exchange?

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The duplicate close reason has certain flaws

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Policy: Review-My-Idea questions are permissible

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What to do about questions that require other questions to answer?

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Should we have a defined question structure for new contributors?

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Trish's answer to a closed question deserves a bounty - but bounties are forbidden for closed questions - so please up-vote it

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Suggestion to reword "book" answer questions in the don't ask section

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Who’s making the rules, WorldBuilding or SE?

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How to make a clear difference between open ended questions and asking for reasoning?

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What were the 2 major rules changes in the last 9 years?

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Is posting a question that's a revise of a previous one allowed?

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Can AI software be used to proofread?

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Can opinion based questions be answered anyway? Should they?

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Why can’t/shouldn’t the ‘internal-consistency’ tag be used with the ‘science-fiction’ tag?


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