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Meta Allowed types of questions for Worldbuilding

not having a strict policy of "ask your question correctly or it gets closed" This doesn't work well in a Q&A format, as opposed to a more traditional threaded discussion. These sites and the...

posted 1mo ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar Olin Lathrop‭ · 2024-09-06T13:05:30Z (about 1 month ago)
<blockquote>not having a strict policy of "ask your question correctly or it gets closed"</blockquote>

This doesn't work well in a Q&A format, as opposed to a more traditional threaded discussion.  These sites and the Codidact software are for the former.

Experience here and Elsewhere has shown that attempting to community-fix bad questions in a Q&A format creates a lot of noise that most users don't want to see.

Quality is important.  A site with 1000 questions of which 200 the users actually want to see is far worse than a site with just 200 good questions.  To get there, noise-generators need to be culled and dispensed with quickly and ruthlessly.