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View submission: Announcement: New Rules, Guidelines and Flair System
You guys do great work, thanks for everything mods.
One addendum: posting on here to answer a question can be really intimidating. I get that that probably helps in weeding out unqualified answers, but it also makes me pass over answering a question that I could because I'm worried I don't have enough citations or specifics off-hand.
Elsewhere in this thread I read
We want something more substantial in the answer, even to silly questions. It may be a link to an article, or paper, or what have you, and that's fine. But just dismissing a question or answering it in the affirmative without saying anything more isn't helpful.
Couldn't this (or something like it) be added to the rules themselves? When I read "substantive and well-researched" I imagined a standard much higher than what it seems you have in mind.
Comment by Madokara at 06/11/2018 at 11:36 UTC
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But if you can post an article or a paper or another source, then you necessarily have done some research on the topic, no? I can't think of a situation where you know that a specific paper or encyclopedia entry gives a good answer to a question but didn't at very least study it yourself. You seem to think of a situation where the one is the case but not the other?
Comment by ADefiniteDescription at 07/11/2018 at 18:42 UTC
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So I want to note that this post will remain stickied indefinitely to clarify our rules and guidelines, and thus people can go here to read more about the intent behind the rules.
That said, I'm worried about adding even more to an already word-heavy rule. In fact, I don't think reddit will allow us any more text than what we already have in that rule - maybe just a few more characters.