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17 questions linked to/from Magic is primarily opinion-based by definition, so what does a POB VTC mean?
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Aren't all questions and answers about alien culture opinion based? Or magic, for that matter? [duplicate]
I respect the rules of the board. My first question was about how telepathic aliens could effectively communicate ideas with non-telepathic humans. Answers of course are going to be creative and ...
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Are "explanations for magic" something that belong on World Building SE? [duplicate]
I see more and more questions asking for help to explain how a specific magic could "work". They are all opinion based, a kind of brainstorm exercise, and sound more like plot related questions than ...
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Do we need the [idea-based] tag on Main?
I was just going through the "Suggested Edit" review queue and saw a tag wiki edit suggestion there for a tag that was recently created, which read as:
This tag is used by questions that requires ...
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What exactly is "Opinion Based" and why do we shun it?
The Context
I have seen many questions being voted for closure as being primarily opinion based. Now, if you think about it for a moment, aren't all questions opinion based (except the hard science ...
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How has this answer not yet been shot down?
On a recent question about reasoning the constant existence of ice-walls around a flat-earth there has been this one answer leading with upvotes:
As there is not scientific basis for anything like ...
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How can questions be closed as being "primarily opinion-based" on Worldbuilding?
This question was fueled by the following question being put on hold: Reason for magical abilities. However, my meta question below applies to the pob close vote reason in general and I do not wish to ...
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Idea Refinement: Clarification and Examples of VTC Reasons for New Users
This page was written before the late 2019 changes to close-voting. However, much of the information is still relevant. -JBH
The Welcome to Worldbuilding.SE! page for new users is up and running. My ...
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Consensus for Shapes for an Infinite Animal
This is in regard to the question Shapes for an Infinite Animal.
I consider the question to be lacking some critical criteria to be objectively answerable with a "best" answer, and commented as such (...
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The problem with opinion based questions
I've seen a few questions, including my own, being closed for being 'too opinion based'.
My question is, what's wrong with that? I think that in the SE philosophy opinion based questions are bad ...
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Is there something wrong happening to my question?
Please,This is not right.
How do i make skeletons formidable hand to hand fighters?
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Opinion-based close text, should we customize it?
Update: It seems that my reading of the meta post linked was incorrect, we aren't able to change the text in the way proposed, alas.
In the reopen review queue we often deal with questions which have ...
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"I have an implausible end goal. Please tell me how to get there!!"
Plausible Weapon or Other to Cause Space-stage Civilization to Shatter and Revert to Primitive Societies
Since I am horrible at coming up with ideas, I couldn't think of a circumstance or weapon ...
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Why are questions with multiple answers off-topic?
I'm basically asking about questions which do have short, objective answers, but it may be subjective to determine which is the best answer.
Like suppose mankind now has xyz technology, which ...
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Is it possible to change the descriptive text for the POB selection?
When users pull up the VTC panel, the description for "Primarily Opinion-Based" is:
Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience, but answers to this question will ...
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An invitation to reopen a magic-system question
RE: Need help finishing my magic system
Helping people flesh out a system of magic should, frankly, be one of our foundation strengths. This question was closed as Primarily Opinion-Based (POB).
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