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Tom

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elemtilas

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elemtilas

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Downvoting questions - A Guide?

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Can we include a "user your own creativity" rule?

CommunityBot

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2023: a year in moderation

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How to use the Universe Factory

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Sandbox for Proposed Questions

i am fish

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Please help me write an on-topic question

JBH

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New blog post: How could a subterranean alien lifeform develop space travel? (Previous: An attempt at writing: The Gryphons and a Dragon)

Monty WildMod

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modified Feb 20 at 10:35

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2025: a year in moderation

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Policy Change: Objective Storybuilding is Acceptable

Nosajimiki

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modified Dec 5, 2025 at 14:17

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Need help undoing accidental downvote

Glorfindel

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Catalog of Question Types

JBH

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Military Doctrine vs Story Based/Character Action

JBH

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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, 2025 at 5:33

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Policy Clarification: Asking about commercial or third-party worlds

elemtilas

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modified Nov 10, 2025 at 16:54

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Request to delete the "social acticities" tag

Monty WildMod

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modified Oct 30, 2025 at 3:01

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Cultural Worldbuilding: How to avoid closure?

JBH

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modified Oct 16, 2025 at 20:48

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Time for an "Obsolete" Notification?

elemtilas

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modified Oct 7, 2025 at 2:04

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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, 2025 at 20:09

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The Scale of Hard Sci Fi

JBH

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

Trish

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modified Oct 4, 2025 at 8:49

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

Trish

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modified Oct 4, 2025 at 8:48

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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, 2025 at 22:22

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

elemtilas

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answered Sep 17, 2025 at 3:36

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Community wikis - are they ever a possibility?

JBH

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answered Sep 12, 2025 at 21:31

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Why isn't the Hyperbolic time chamber question brainstorming?

JBH

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modified Sep 12, 2025 at 20:27

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

JBH

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answered Sep 12, 2025 at 20:19

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Advice: Math and the Zen of Worldbuilding

elemtilas

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modified Sep 12, 2025 at 18:54

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1 answer

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Commenting on a conflict in an old question?

elemtilas

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answered Sep 5, 2025 at 17:01

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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, 2025 at 21:59

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1 answer

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What is the [power-scaling] tag?

JBH

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modified Jul 1, 2025 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, 2025 at 22:52

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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, 2025 at 0:09

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Does the AI-generated content ban extend to improving questions

elemtilas

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modified Jun 15, 2025 at 22:31

2 votes

4 answers

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Are there any countries as "worldbuilding" as Australia?

Trish

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answered Jun 4, 2025 at 19:28

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

elemtilas

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answered May 23, 2025 at 13:36

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

sphennings

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modified May 21, 2025 at 10:28

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

sphennings

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modified May 19, 2025 at 2:04

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Why have these off-topic questions not been closed?

elemtilas

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answered May 14, 2025 at 2:17

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Clarification: RMIQ and Creature Design

elemtilas

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answered May 10, 2025 at 21:53

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

TheDemonLord

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answered May 9, 2025 at 9:37

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Anatomically Correct Series

L.DutchMod

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modified May 8, 2025 at 19:07

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

VLAZ

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answered May 8, 2025 at 18:36

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3 answers

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The duplicate close reason has certain flaws

JBH

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answered May 8, 2025 at 14:35

17 votes

3 answers

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Policy: Review-My-Idea questions are permissible

JBH

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modified May 7, 2025 at 18:25

4 votes

2 answers

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

JBH

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answered May 7, 2025 at 18:09

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