Questions tagged [subjective-questions]
For questions about subjective questions on the Role-Playing Games Stack Exchange (either in general, or about specific questions) and about how to answer them.
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Would this question about the Deck of Many Things be allowed?
I recently asked this question on the Deck of Many Things which was closed as opinion-based. I would like to revisit the topic and ask for expert opinion from a different angle. To avoid as much ...
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How do I ask this question about house-rules for the Simulacrum spell in D&D 5e without it being closed as opinion-based?
How do I ask this question about house-rules for the simulacrum spell in D&D 5e without it being closed as opinion-based? This is a perfect example of a question I believe that our community has ...
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How are you meant to provide personal experience on mostly mathematical questions?
In What can I do to make a Kobold encounter interesting? there was a question of how to make an encounter more challenging. I noted the example of Tucker's kobolds, where you lead the people to ...
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Uncomfortable about inconsistent application of criteria for valid answers
This is a common problem (it seems) across social related SE (gaming, workplace, interpersonal etc). The criteria for an answer require either an objective citation, or that the answer is based on a ...
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How to revisit citation expectations for subjective questions
Based on questions like Medix2's, Medix2's other question, and my earlier one, there is a big disconnect between the historical guidance for supporting subjective answers and what the community likes/...
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Revisiting citation expectations of good subjective answers
There have been quite a few questions on Good Subjective answers and their policy, and I would like this one to avoid discussing what moderators are or aren't doing to enforce the current policy. ...
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Confusion regarding the "Good Subjective" post notice and the policy on backing up answers
This is a question for moderators as I'm not sure how else to ask this. There have been the following posts recently: "Please give your feedback on a new “Subjective Citation Needed” post notice ...
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Please give your feedback on a new "Subjective Citation Needed" post notice
One of the tools that diamond moderators have at their disposal is the post notice. We have several different types of post notice for example, this one, for posts that require additional citations: ...
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How do we appropriately back up a subjective answer? [duplicate]
If anyone has other approaches to subjective support, please provide an answer on the duplicate questions linked above. It is clear that we require answers to be backed up here- whether they are ...
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When do we close a question for drawing opinion-based answers and how can we try to get ahead of such closures?
I'm not talking about opinion-based questions, but the flipside of when a question could generate good subjective answers, but doesn't. This question does have several parts that are tied together: ...
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How should we handle editing questions that are seemingly opinion-based?
I've seen a trend recently that when questions that are seen as opinion-based (or any number of other questionably stackable formats), the community tries to rewrite the question to something we can ...
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What can we do to help promote supported opinion-based answers rather than closing a good question due to bad answers?
This is somewhat related to this question on question closure due to speculative answers, but it goes a bit further. I've seen a couple of questions here and here that are clearly stackworthy, but ...
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Are spell comparison questions on-topic and sufficiently objective?
After asking this question (Functionally, how does Power Word Kill work?), it was suggested to me in the comments that I may instead want to ask how Power Word Kill compares to other level 9 spells. ...
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How should I phrase my question about gaming's early days?
A moderator (and then the community) put on hold this question. Even were sufficient reopen votes garnered again, based on chat about the question and Mxyzplk's closing comment on the question ("This ...
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My question got too popular - what should I do now?
A few days ago I was discussing an amusing RPG concept with a friend and decided to ask a question about it on rpg.stackexchange to see if the community has good ideas: How to let my players fail ...
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