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Is this one fishing for ideas?

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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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I for one totally like the question and I consider it to be a perfect example of "The Art" of Worldbuilding. It should be allowed as is.

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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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