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2247d ago – KorvinStarmast
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nitsua60
May 30, 2019 16:36
Having not digged too-too deep into the precipitating question, please allow me to party-crash and give some of my thoughts on *why* Back It Up! is so valuable:

Explaining *how* one knows their answer is good (be it citation to a rulebook or actual play experience or Mike Shea's blog or internal company documents) serves [the long tail of readers](https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/244534/311001) better than not explaining.

Providing the correct answer helps one person. And it may help people down the line with *that exact* same problem.
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KorvinStarmast
May 30, 2019 17:13
@Rubiksmoose My legal team has referred your question to the Boston Law Firm of Dewey, Chetham, and Howe. 8^o Might be a while to get an answer.
Carcer
May 30, 2019 16:56
(and that blocking a question from HNQ is a perceptually mild moderator action which feels less disagreeable than doing stuff like actually deleting answers and that jazz)
Carcer
May 30, 2019 16:53
I think SSD's got a reasonable answer that for this particular problem there is no solution that doesn't upset everyone and you just kind of have to deal with it existing briefly and then move on. I feel like an ability to preemptively block questions from HNQing would reduce the impact caused by these questions - as we now have the HNQ delay, and it's usually pretty obvious when a question's going to go this way.
A. B.
May 30, 2019 16:45
@Gcl Of course. Anyone can make something up that sounds like it'll work, but having actually tried is better.
Carcer
May 30, 2019 16:13
there's only really two directions to go there - one is "well, change the policy so it's aligned with what people are actually doing" or "have mods enforce the policy because the community is unable to"
Mark Wells
May 30, 2019 16:10
@GcL If your point is that everyone who says they have direct experience could just be lying, well, yeah, they could. Don't do that, people.