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Is this one fishing for ideas?
There was a very nice question posted recently about an underground society not knowing overground war has ended.
Just out of curiosity:
The question could be regarded as
- "too broad",
- "generating ideas", "brainstorming", "fishing for ideas",
- "answers are only opinion-based",
- "there is no best answer",
- yadda yadda etc.
Giving actually any and all the reasons to close by some standards (which are or are not defined or agreed upon yet, I actually do not know).
Now what? Answer, close, something else?
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the reasons to close by some standards (which are or are not defined or agreed upon yet ... )
The standards for what kinds of questions are allowed on Worldbuilding will be determined by Meta discussions like this one. Here's my opinion for voting up/down:
Worldbuilding welcomes some fishing for ideas
Sufficiently specific
I like the example question. It gives detail about the setting, and also describes precisely what it's seeking.
A vague question such as "I don't know what to write about. Tell me what to write about" would not be sufficiently specific. There will always be a grey area between questions that are clearly well specified and clearly not. The purpose of this answer is to establish that in Worldbuilding, a question can be seeking inspiration, rather than just asking a concrete question. Fine tuning where to draw the line through the grey area can be the topic of future discussions once we have more example questions.
Possibly in a dedicated category
The example question is welcome in the Worldbuilding community. Whether that is in the Q&A category or in a separate idea forge category (name to be determined) can be a separate discussion in another Meta question. This answer is just to indicate that well specified questions seeking ideas will be on topic somewhere in the Worldbuilding community.
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