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Speculative answers will be downvoted, commented on ("Back It Up!"), and/or deleted. Second, per What are the citation expectations of answers on RPG Stack Exchange? … : What are the citation expectations for Subjective answers? These are answers drawing on experience to suggest solutions to social problems, best practices, GM and player techniques, etc. …

Yes, editing for tone is acceptable. If you are a new user however, ask others in comments, chat, and/or meta to make sure you're doing the right thing. For your specific example case, I think you …

See What are the citation expectations of answers on RPG Stack Exchange? … Vote to put the question on hold so it can have some edits to make it draw better answers. …

Add Links To Things You Are Actually Citing Referencing (PHB p.123) or linking to a SRD or whatever for content in your answer is good. Adding Links To Everything Referenced Is Of Questionable Value …

Per that previously linked question, we do not have an “official” source. Use what you prefer as a question or answer author or editor. Nethys, d20pfsrd, something else. Also, as the links are not …

We should take a hard line on unsupported answers I don't like questions drawing large numbers of unsupported answers having to be closed either. … I have questions I've asked on the site where I had to add an extra rider to the question demanding GS/BS answers to pull it over the line. Hot Network Questions can bring in more driveby answers. …

As always, it's a continuum. If someone produces an entire piece of content from whole cloth - e.g. a new character class, feat, spell, monster - we really think they should playtest that before cla …

I have edited the question to focus on mitigation where one option is "no mitigation is required." I understand this looks like two different questions on the page but at it's heart it is "how do I b …

There is no technical rule against answering a question in this way, and I wouldn't say it requires "tried and tested" homebrew. So it is a licit answer. On the other hand, this is a bad way to answ …

and To what extent does a well known representative from an RPG company who represents their product need to provide evidence of this in their answers? … Their answers should stand and fall by our usual site quality standards. Ideally if they're the designer they should be able to Back It Up! with real play experience, yes? …

The new SE guidance on rudeness does NOT alter anything about site SOP in terms of how we handle questions and answers, and we are not throwing out the usual ground rules because it's not "huggy enough …

It's up to you Some people prefer answers that are to the point and answer the question. … Otherwise, it's fine for them to have different kinds of answers to pull from. …

All of those are acceptable. There’s no “right” answer, it depends on how much work you want to put into it, how much rep you have, etc.

Seeing some of your answers to those questions, they include untested speculation. … In fact all the answers you link are good, and many of them add in “you could rule otherwise” or “here’s how it works at my table.” I shall upvote all those answers now for being good. …

For some questions, answers from those might be appropriate and for others they may not be. …