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"Is it good" is not an objectively answerable question. "What are the effects of this" is. "Does this achieve my specific requirements" is. "Is this good," "Do you like this," etc. are subjective q …

Unfortunately you're the second case in recent history of a popular question being dragged afield and closed (Why is one +21 question On Hold when a similar question is ok with +53 votes? discussed th …

Have you read Good Subjective, Bad Subjective? It makes it pretty clear that there is a continuum of subjectivity that begins immediately after "Does this code compile?" (RPG.SE equivalent: "Is there …

All that voting means on SE is: Upvote: This answer is useful (unstated: "to me") Downvote: This answer is not useful That usefulness/unusefulness is entirely subjective. People can and do vote ba …

Because there are a lot of different games and theories of play - too many for an answer to this without narrowing it down more. This question is like asking "How do I know if someone's programming s …

The question is too broad along several axes. It's for "any game". Even in the 1970s there were many games. It's for "the 1970s." A whole decade of different groups, evolving playstyles, etc. in …

I think we'd be open to specific designated "fun" questions as long as people don't suddenly open others and flood us with low qual questions. We could do something like this as part of a specific ini …

This question is complicated, because there's a lot of different things going on here. In general, "Why is question X treated different from question Y?" isn't a real good question. Well, they're n …

The second one is better, if a little tortured and perhaps better broken up into two sentences. Here's the thing. Without any experience cited, you're just some guy giving opinions off the top of th …

This topic was initially addressed in the beginning days of the site under How much subjectiveness is OK? but our understanding of this issue and best practices surrounding it have changed somewhat so …

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. But last time we tried the alternate path of deleting …

This answer won't discuss the policy or why we do it, that's well covered elsewhere. It will take the Good Subjective/Bad Subjective policy as gospel and explain how to give Good Subjective answers a …

Some amount of subjectivity is unavoidable and desirable. See the SO blog post "Good Subjective, Bad Subjective" for the Management's take on the question. I think we should try to steer things towar …