Related to the alarm about a large number of edits...
I want to ask a second question in the last five minutes. Would that be considered rude?
Hypothetically, what if I asked 35 questions tonight, which floods out / pushes down other peoples'? Would this be considered rude or abusive with the...
We usually agree that idea generation questions should be avoided, as per here. However I had the feeling that we used to have a more explicit statement about it in the help section.... but I can't seem to find it anymore.
Was it removed? Is so, why? Is my impression wrong and there never was su...
So I started a series yesterday, that seemed like a good idea at the time.
The limits of human biology: atmospheric tolerances (#1)
My plan was/is to create a series (I have a few in mind and I am sure more will come up from other people)
Atmospheric Tolerances
Temperature tolerances
Energy c...
@bilbo_pingouin Yes, the first and only article had me puzzled over the goals of the blog. I mean it is about world-building because it talk about the galaxies and galaxies are part of the universe but... It could serve as an introduction (with links) to more detailed articles (for example).
@ArtOfCode Do you know how many people visited the blog?
@Vincent In a way yes... more like, you want to create a world? Here are some questions you should consider... time/bla bla bla. And then, you want something about religion, look there, something about weapons, there, etc.
I think the blog is probably the best route to go for creating how-to guides, that or we can work something into the tag wiki's, maybe create a getting started with world building tag
blog or wiki pages are probably a good way to go, I can see a few examples: choose your world, give it some geography, give it a past, which races?, how to organise the society, etc.
I also think it defeats the Q&A format of SE's main form. But SE hosts some blogs/wikis... I don't know if it would be possible to get some pages there
@Vincent ah ok. I think he mentioned the history thing, when we were in the map-making challenge, that is probably the reason for my earlier confusion :-)
Anyway, I have to leave for some time. Read you later :-)
@ArtOfCode can you detail a bit more what is the approach of the blog? As you might read above (chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/22961892#22961892), @Vincent already gave the link. Then I tried to explained a concept I had in mind. How does that fit with "your" blog? :-)
@bilbo_pingouin @Vincent tag wikis can be good places for this, too -- worldbuilding-process, history, map-making all have tags. I've seen a couple really extensive tag wikis (from SO I think) that are basically "one-stop shopping for this topic". And it's automatically linked from the relevant questions. :-)
@bilbo_pingouin About the blog, I was thinking we could work on these on the Stack exchange and publish the bill when it's finished. It's a possibility. It takes some time to write a good blog entry but it appear as a smaller task if several person contribute.
It attracted a lot of people... let's see how we fare with humans... but anyway, with some luck a certain number of the newcomers will stay/come back regularly
Based on this question.
I don't really like "Idea Generation" as a reason to close. It seems like too much of a subtle reason to me, since really this entire site is about ideas.
Even the accepted answer about "What is Idea Generation" seems to indicate this:
We have an "Idea Generation" c...
So I started a series yesterday, that seemed like a good idea at the time.
The limits of human biology: atmospheric tolerances (#1)
My plan was/is to create a series (I have a few in mind and I am sure more will come up from other people)
Atmospheric Tolerances
Temperature tolerances
Energy c...
I read this question:
Cliche world - Who would you be and why?
And I wondered if it were okay. Can we authorize questions which lead to discussions?
Based on this question.
I don't really like "Idea Generation" as a reason to close. It seems like too much of a subtle reason to me, since really this entire site is about ideas.
Even the accepted answer about "What is Idea Generation" seems to indicate this:
We have an "Idea Generation" c...
The Factory Floor
The Factory Floor