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## Asking questions

- https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3204/how-do-we-ask-and-answer-subjective-questions

- https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/544/what-kind-of-questions-can-i-ask-here

    - https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5747/are-game-recommendation-questions-on-topic-revisited

    - https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5881/are-tool-recommendation-questions-on-topic

    - https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5357/what-kinds-of-alignment-questions-are-on-topic

    - https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1639/are-character-optimization-questions-on-topic

    - https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1604/are-campaign-research-questions-on-topic-part-two

    - https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5385/are-choose-your-own-adventure-questions-on-topic

    - https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/176/are-list-collection-questions-on-topic

- https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5787/i-want-to-ask-for-recommendations-but-thats-off-topic-is-there-any-way-to-ask

- https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5449/ive-been-told-my-question-is-better-suited-to-a-forum-but-where-should-i-go

- https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3010/should-i-use-a-narrow-system-tag-or-go-broad-if-possible-and-use-system-agnosti


## Writing answers

- https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5153/is-homebrew-an-acceptable-answer-to-a-question

- https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3326/should-i-be-requesting-people-answer-the-question-independently

- https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3318/how-do-we-handle-a-desire-to-challenge-the-frame-of-a-question


## Comments

- https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1174/why-are-site-comments-being-deleted

- https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6533/should-users-refrain-from-answers-or-partial-answers-in-comments

- https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6572/why-is-an-answer-being-downvoted-without-any-comments


## Etiquette

- https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5174/can-we-affirm-that-rpg-se-embraces-a-plurality-of-playstyles

- https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4765/is-this-site-for-experts-or-not

- https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3573/is-profanity-allowed-on-rpg-se

- https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6519/when-a-question-changes-completely-should-it-be-a-new-question


## Editing and formatting

- https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3454/dont-signal-your-edits-in-text

- https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1483/is-there-a-functional-purpose-to-putting-things-in-code-text-here

- https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6498/use-real-headers-instead-of-fake-headers

- https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6867/what-to-do-when-an-edit-guesses-a-system-tag-rather-than-waiting-for-the-querent


## Community moderation and curation

- https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5758/why-was-my-question-closed-as-too-broad-unclear-or-opinion-based

- https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1475/how-to-deal-with-questions-that-just-dont-understand-the-scope-of-the-rpg-lands

- https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/942/how-to-deal-with-feedback-questions-about-house-rules

- https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/437/what-should-i-do-about-spam-questions

- https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/6524/how-should-we-use-community-wiki-part-iii


## Miscellaneous

- https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/2895/how-does-all-the-various-stack-exchange-functionality-work

- https://rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1274/can-i-send-private-messages-to-users


## External links

- [Good Subjective, Bad Subjective](http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/good-subjective-bad-subjective/)

- [Writing the Perfect Question by Jon Skeet](http://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2010/08/29/writing-the-perfect-question/)

- [How to Ask Questions the Smart Way](http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html)

- https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/66377/what-is-the-xy-problem

- [Gorilla vs. Shark](https://stackoverflow.blog/2011/08/16/gorilla-vs-shark/)

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