Example question I had in mind: In this answer edit, someone changed my translation of a word "арбалет" from "arbalest" to "crossbow". In the context of translating the book ("Hard to be a God, by Strugatsky brothers), which of the two English terms is more appropriate?

This is something that I personally struggle with, and I've seen other people have problems with it too. Let's say that I ask a question on the main site, and I have certain preferences about how answers should be written. Maybe I only want answers that discuss authorial intent, maybe I want ans...

I use the library a lot. This means that I often read books that I later no longer have access to. There have been times when someone has asked a question about a book that I read but no longer have access to. Is it worth writing an answer based on what I remember about the book?

I recently asked a question about a scientific paper (Why is the Turing Test really a test about gender?), which got closed for being off-topic. However, I would argue that the question is on-topic, because it asks answers to analyze an academic article using literary methods. Is the question o...

The following answer to my Turing question has been flagged as not an answer. There's an argument for it being an answer, and there's also an argument for it not being an answer. We the moderators would appreciate some guidance from the community about how you want us to handle these flags. Shou...