What exactly is the philosophical context here? What have you been reading or studying that's made this an interesting problem in your study of philosophy? What exactly does an answer to this question look like in your mind; what specifically are you having trouble with that you would like someone here to provide an explanation about (in a few paragraphs)?

Did the addition address the concerns?

It's still a little vague/wandering and not particularly well-specified in terms of philosophical context. What have you been reading or studying that's made this an interesting problem in your study of philosophy?

I thought I stated that explicitly: a question on this board, yesterday. Would writing in bold help? To me that seems like yelling.

I'm sorry if the emphasis struck you unkindly; just trying to underscore the importance of spelling out as clearly as possible the philosophical context and importance of the problem you're facing. It is still not particularly clear where the philosophical interest or urgency here lies. Please consider simplifying this somewhat and focusing as narrowly as possible on the specific problem you're encountering in your study.

Is it that this question is too opinion-based and open-ended? Should all questions here be of the form, 'What did so-and-so say about such-and-such?'

Please consider taking further discussion around this to meta if you'd like a more formal response, but happy to talk it through here with you if you'd like

I have to warn you I'm turning in pretty soon though so some of this may have to wait until tomorrow :)

Reviewing meta and our about/help pages might assist in terms of getting a sense of our scope

At any rate: we're no different than any other community in the StackExchange network

It's critical that questions have a serious and organic philosophical context and motivation that is spelled out clearly

Questions should reflect some specific problem that you're encountering in your reading or study, that you would like someone here to provide you an explanation about, in a few paragraphs

(Of course please do feel free to bug me further me if you'd like to chat through this)

Okay, well, I'm not sure how to narrow the scope

What is the problem you're facing?

Perhaps I am most interested in how a government views the property of its citizens

Okay, that's an interesting general topic... :)

I know Locke had some things to say on it

Maybe we could think about zooming into a narrower problem in the study of political philosophy

Referencing some Locke you're reading -- and maybe having trouble processing? -- could definitely help bring this closer towards topical

Is there some specific text (ideally passage?) you might be thinking about?

I haven't read any lately, I know he made a comparison of stealing property to enslaving a person

Is there a way to hide the question so that I can come back and revise it?

@dwn not really, but you can always come back and revise it -- it will send it back to to the top of the mainpage for folks to evaluate, or just ping me if you'd like to talk then