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People are downvoting examples to say that they're off topic but not adding an explanation for why - to be useful really we need you to add your reason
For risk factors, do we want to have something like: "google the terms of the question first and come back asking it later"... as sometimes, the OP use words they clearly don't understand, supernovae, black holes, etc. And with their failed understanding, their question has no sense..?
In principle, in several other sites, the OP are required to show that they looked for a solution by themselves before asking it here. That would be somehow the same idea. People should look up what they are talking about. At least, when a simple read of the corresponding wikipedia article would help them refine their question...
The downvote button for questions, the hover text is: 'Does not show any research effort; it is unclear or not useful'. Not having any evidence of knowing what they are asking is a clear lack of research effort. Note that this does not translate into 'must have read wikipedia article', however it is a good start :P
yes, but it has the default of letting anyone answer it, making it as one image of WB... that I'd rather avoid
and to me, having a question on-hold feels less agressive than downvote. The OP do not lose any reputation and has a chance to fix their question. A DV, even if they do fix their question, it is not so likely that the downvoter will come back to check and thus remove the vote
@bilbo_pingouin I think there are still questions that deserve downvotes, like questions that one believes can never be fixed. Like a question that doesn't know what it's talking about, even if the OP does research they'll only figure out how stupid the question was
holding questions implies they can be fixed, downvoting implies they should be deleted
I don't like downvoting because I don't have confidence in my own opinions, but I assume that's a personal deficiency. Everyone else should be downvoting way more than me
but maybe the lack of downvotes is just part of the accept-anything mindset a lot of people have gotten into for this site
that's also the advantage of closing questions... there are 4 other persons judging the status... downvote, is less effective but more definitive
the problem, is that people still answer bad questions, even if there aren't any upvotes... so on-hold is to make clear to everyone that there is a problem with that question
and is a first step to it being deleted... That's an interesting question, can one delete a question that isn't on-hold? High-rep users? I suppose mods can.
I already designed a whole world around balloon whales, it was surprisingly easy
do you have a question in mind, or do you just want to use that tag?
I think the edits were a bit too drastic, you might just want to ask your own version
well, the main idea of edits is to make the question more readable while still maintaining the author's intent, so you probably shouldn't change the criteria
or maybe I'm wrong, looks like the edit was accepted
The problem is, I don't know how this would be a similar topic and on topic.
Nope
I can't see artificially floating whales for a short amount of time as on topic in any way. Were it a creature design question, about whales that could float, then it would be on topic.
@James might be too broad. If you're asking if it's possible, then sure, but if you're asking how to do it, then I'd need to see your constraints first
I have a fetish. One that I am extremely careful about any place serious. I like helping people. I like helping new people. And I like voting for people so they don't have to scrape and agonize to get to the relatively tiny rep I have after months. But this is SE. And this is WB. And while new pe...
I have questions.
Good questions. Hot questions. Quite a few of them. They get many views. They get many answer-upvotes. But. I don't get credited for asking a question worthy of an answer of quality. If you like an answer to a question, unless it's poetic or comedic, then it only makes sense th...
If you want to post something on meta, you can.
There is no real limitation to this. However.
If you post something that is't a question, or make comments in the form of 'answers', is it at all right that your rep goes up? *
*For doing nothing relating to the 'goal' of SE, which is: "Ask que...
As the Risk Factor identified as most important by this post I'm starting a discussion on Too Individual/Character Based.
Please start answers to this question discussing each of the examples, adding more examples, and discussing just where to draw the line. Once we've reached a consensus and up...
@James This is the last time I'll bug you about it, but I did finally get values for you for the stability answer I've been bugging you with updates about, and the system is very, very stable for the values I chose.