Report anything that discusses metadata or involves personal attacks.

Upvote good content downvote incorrect information.

(This doesn't, of course, mean there isn't room for further discussion.)

Search for your question, it may have been asked and answered before.

Any sort of competition questions belong in whowouldwin.

AskScience and AskHistorians exist for that. r/whatiffiction, a sister subreddit, has rules more accommodating to these sort of questions.

General questions are discouraged without a firm set of in-universe rules, most of them boil down to 'whatever the writer chooses' in terms of answers.

Avoid questions about real-world pseudoscience (i.e.

Any fiction is allowed not just science fiction.

You already know Bruce Wayne is Batman, you already know Darth Vader is Anakin Skywalker, you already know Sauron is evil. However, if you choose to roleplay, please remember that you must answer as if you had all the information available to a member of the audience.

We discourage but do not forbid roleplaying.

Answer the questions from a Watsonian perspective only- no Doylist answers.

your posts with the setting you wish to discuss.

Take the fictional rules of the universe to their logical conclusion, ad absurdum.

Doylist perspective can be found here, here, and in the dictionary definitions of the two terms.) Or as calls it Watsonian, not a Doylist point of view (Further reading on Watsonian vs. Use in-universe knowledge, rules, and common sense to answer the questions.

It's like Ask Science, but all questions and answers are written with answers gleaned from the universe itself.

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