As a result of recent debate over whether certain answers would be considered acceptable on this site, we posed the question "What are we looking for in answers?". In my foray into the issue, I noted that of the two main classes of questions we field (questions about the field of hermeneutics and...
Sometimes personal belief, not dispassionate analysis, governs actions. We all have biases; it's part of being human, and it's certainly part of participating on a site about religion. But we're looking for questions and answers that start from the text and follow some logical path to answers. ...
We want answers to show their work, and of course we want answers to be useful. We've now got a fairly clear idea of what our standards are and what we should do with answers that fail on both counts. Slightly trickier is answers that are useful but do not meet our standards for showing their wo...
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