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I've been on thise site for a couple months now and what I like about it is that it's very flexible. I used to be on stack exchange and after seeing the difference between the two sites I can see why people leave it for codidact; stack exchange is designed for topics with clear almost definitive answers, but expects every group to follow those guidelines, and when it comes to worldbuilding there really is no definitive answer and trying to put down strict rules on such concepts tend to hinder the creative process and makes it hard to truly get help since in many many cases helping with worldbuilding needs some level of brainstorming. With codidact that is well understood, with each subject, worldbuilding included having greater permisiveness and flexibility that stack exchange. Honestly the idea of setting rules to it is pretty ridiculous since the concept of "fishing for ideas" or "being too broad" are ubsurd in themselves since the question is how to do you decide when a questions falls into these categories, after all brainstorming is just coming up with ideas through any and all methods and processes such as discussion and input, so to draw an arbitrary line as to when it's ok vs not ok is pretty ridiculous and self defeating.

Now I'll be the first to admit that there certain lines that have to be drawn in terms of what's actually allowed, such as prohibiting more vulgar content from being allowed, or maybe "fishing for ideas" being used more as a term for a plagiarist trying to steal someone's else's ideas but that's a whole other story entirely. Setting up stricter rules only causes the risk of the same issues with stack exchange, where it started to feel like people cared less about asking and answering questions as they did just jumping on someone who doesn't follow the rules to the letter and making an environment that feels unwelcoming to new comers.

That all I said I acknowledge that some questions can be vague since you don't have the ability to see inside the mind of the individual so maybe asking people to concise and clear about their question would be reasonable and make it so you can actually answer their question properly. In addition maybe setting less of rules and more of guideline suggestions as well as examples of good question set up vs bad question set up so people know how best to make their question at least capable of being answered properly.