Hey, let's ask the FAQ question! Now I am going to go be talkative in the answers. One answer per answer, vote up/down depending on whether you think it should be there, yes?
Update: I will be editing these into the FAQ soon, so make your suggestions and votes!
Q: What kinds of questions should be marked as community wiki questions?
A: If your question is intended to gather a list of equally relevant answers, and you don't expect one answer to be the most applicable, it should be a community wiki. For example, if you ask for a list of cyberpunk-themed RPGs, that'd be a community wiki. If you ask what would be a good cyberpunk RPG for a game in which posthumanism and uplifting non-human races are major themes, that's probably not a community wiki.
"What is a Role-Playing Game?"
You know, that blurb that they put in the front of every single RPG core rulebook ever published. I think we should have our own version, for newbies, so they understand what we're about. A link to some more official source wouldn't hurt.
What should I not ask here?
Q: Are trivial questions OK?
A: Yep. Stack Exchange sites are not meant as the second place to go for answers after Google; it's OK to ask questions that can be answered by other means. This post from our parent site explains more of the reasoning behind this answer.
Avoid asking questions that are subjective, argumentative, or require extended discussion. This is not a discussion board, this is a place for questions that can be answered! If you want to talk about the site itself, please don't do it here. Visit our meta-discussion site where you can talk about things like what questions are appropriate, what tags we should use, suggest a feature, or generally discuss how RPG Stack Exchange works.
If your question is about…
(Up for suggestions on the somewhere elses)
From: Should we worry about spoilers?
This site may contain spoilers. We try to tag questions that are expected to generate spoilers with [spoiler], but you are not guaranteed to see a spoiler warning before reading a spoiler anywhere on the site.
When is something system agnostic versus system specific. We've seen a bunch of questions where someone made the question without specific system tags but they only make sense in certain games (or even versions of games for D&D).
So really, when to use system specific tags.
The FAQ needs to clairify what the target audience is for the site.
I propose the target be: "New and experienced RPG players and RPG game masters"
If the comments come up with something better, I'll edit the post to reflect it.
Edit:
The line "This site is not intended for:" should probably be included with a short list under it that includes computer RPG players and potentially larpers if the other questions ever determine if they are or are not part of the intended audience.
Since we now have the spoiler code implemented, I think the FAQ should contain guidelines for how spoilers should be posted and how to properly use the code.
I believe that just as the FAQ contains guidelines for asking questions, so also should it include guidelines for answering them. See this thread for discussion on what those guidelines should be.
