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Policy Change: Objective Storybuilding is Acceptable

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Need help undoing accidental downvote

Glorfindel

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answered Dec 3 at 9:04

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8 answers

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Sandbox for Proposed Questions

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modified Nov 29 at 4:04

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Catalog of Question Types

JBH

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modified Nov 27 at 6:16

8 votes

3 answers

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Military Doctrine vs Story Based/Character Action

JBH

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answered Nov 26 at 4:30

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2 answers

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

JBH

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answered Nov 21 at 5:33

15 votes

5 answers

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Policy Clarification: Asking about commercial or third-party worlds

elemtilas

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modified Nov 10 at 16:54

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1 answer

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2023: a year in moderation

CommunityBot

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modified Nov 5 at 22:03

6 votes

1 answer

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Request to delete the "social acticities" tag

Monty WildMod

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modified Oct 30 at 3:01

12 votes

2 answers

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Cultural Worldbuilding: How to avoid closure?

JBH

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modified Oct 16 at 20:48

2 votes

1 answer

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Time for an "Obsolete" Notification?

elemtilas

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modified Oct 7 at 2:04

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3 answers

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

JBH

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modified Oct 6 at 20:09

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2 answers

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The Scale of Hard Sci Fi

JBH

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answered Oct 6 at 20:03

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11 answers

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

Trish

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modified Oct 4 at 8:49

7 votes

5 answers

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

Trish

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modified Oct 4 at 8:48

1 vote

2 answers

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

elemtilas

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modified Sep 22 at 22:22

10 votes

2 answers

386 views

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

elemtilas

42.5k

answered Sep 17 at 3:36

4 votes

1 answer

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Community wikis - are they ever a possibility?

JBH

142k

answered Sep 12 at 21:31

6 votes

2 answers

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Why isn't the Hyperbolic time chamber question brainstorming?

JBH

142k

modified Sep 12 at 20:27

3 votes

1 answer

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

JBH

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answered Sep 12 at 20:19

2 votes

1 answer

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Advice: Math and the Zen of Worldbuilding

elemtilas

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modified Sep 12 at 18:54

1 vote

1 answer

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Commenting on a conflict in an old question?

elemtilas

42.5k

answered Sep 5 at 17:01

2 votes

2 answers

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

JBH

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answered Jul 22 at 21:59

2 votes

1 answer

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What is the [power-scaling] tag?

JBH

142k

modified Jul 1 at 14:40

2 votes

2 answers

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

TheDemonLord

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answered Jun 26 at 22:52

-2 votes

2 answers

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

JBH

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modified Jun 23 at 0:09

1 vote

2 answers

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Does the AI-generated content ban extend to improving questions

elemtilas

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modified Jun 15 at 22:31

2 votes

4 answers

470 views

Are there any countries as "worldbuilding" as Australia?

Trish

25.7k

answered Jun 4 at 19:28

5 votes

3 answers

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

elemtilas

42.5k

answered May 23 at 13:36

6 votes

2 answers

571 views

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

sphennings

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modified May 21 at 10:28

7 votes

1 answer

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

sphennings

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modified May 19 at 2:04

0 votes

2 answers

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Why have these off-topic questions not been closed?

elemtilas

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answered May 14 at 2:17

5 votes

1 answer

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Clarification: RMIQ and Creature Design

elemtilas

42.5k

answered May 10 at 21:53

0 votes

3 answers

97 views

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

TheDemonLord

41.3k

answered May 9 at 9:37

62 votes

1 answer

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Anatomically Correct Series

L.DutchMod

311k

modified May 8 at 19:07

0 votes

1 answer

75 views

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

VLAZ

8,142

answered May 8 at 18:36

1 vote

3 answers

97 views

The duplicate close reason has certain flaws

JBH

142k

answered May 8 at 14:35

17 votes

3 answers

368 views

Policy: Review-My-Idea questions are permissible

JBH

142k

modified May 7 at 18:25

4 votes

2 answers

245 views

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

JBH

142k

answered May 7 at 18:09

0 votes

1 answer

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Should we have a defined question structure for new contributors?

IMP9024

3,758

modified May 5 at 0:36

4 votes

2 answers

166 views

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

elemtilas

42.5k

modified May 2 at 20:11

2 votes

1 answer

111 views

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

TheDemonLord

41.3k

answered Apr 30 at 22:25

0 votes

2 answers

80 views

Who’s making the rules, WorldBuilding or SE?

JBH

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answered Apr 30 at 16:49

0 votes

1 answer

49 views

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

JBH

142k

modified Apr 27 at 5:38

1 vote

1 answer

133 views

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

CommunityBot

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modified Apr 23 at 13:07

2 votes

1 answer

55 views

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

sphennings

21.6k

modified Apr 23 at 0:42

3 votes

1 answer

116 views

Can AI software be used to proofread?

elemtilas

42.5k

modified Apr 20 at 19:14

-1 votes

3 answers

169 views

Can opinion based questions be answered anyway? Should they?

JBH

142k

answered Apr 13 at 21:32

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