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How do we deal with fun questions? Jeff continues with: I should clarify that we absolutely do not want the site overrun with “fun” questions. … It's not for the sake of not wanting fun that I wouldn't want these questions to dominate the site. …

Classical X-Y problem, leading to bad questions. … Therefore, there's nothing to be gained from these kinds of questions. …

There really isn't any policy on this. Just note that content is licensed under cc-by-sa, but Stack Exchange additionally requires you to: (…) attribute the work in the manner specified by the aut …

High reputation users ask their questions on other sites. I sometimes post my Apple-specific questions on Ask Different. … As long as you provide good content we don't care if it's in the form of questions or answers. …

That's what we would typically do with these questions. It's the natural way for questions to become deleted automatically if they're closed and not answered. … And we absolutely want to get rid of questions that are not useful for anyone except the OP. Allowing such questions would significantly deteriorate the quality of our content in the long run. …

We usually do not delete questions with upvoted answers, unless these questions are egregiously off topic or otherwise not appropriate for the site. … Basically, you want to have no deleted, closed questions. Please read everything in What can I do when getting “We are no longer accepting questions/answers from this account”? …

There's one particularity about our Markdown formatting. If you add just one line break in the editor, it isn't rendered as a paragraph. Not that this is always the problem, but it often is. Lead by …

. […] questions related to my problem have about 10 answers with 1 or 2 upvotes that all may be right. This is really annoying and seems to be an overall continuous problem. …

You can vote as much as 30 times per day, and 10 times more on questions. If you want to draw more attention to an answer, you can also place a bounty on the question and reward the existing answer. …

If you want to get up-to-date answers for an old question, you can place a bounty on that question. See: How does the bounty system work? You can enter a message asking users to provide new answers …

Not everybody uses the same wording to ask a question, so therefore it's justified to keep them on the site – as long as they're reasonably good questions, of course. …

To extend on Ivo's answer … But when should it be marked off-topic then? By you? Probably never. By the OP? If they want it migrated, e.g. because they didn't get too much attention or later tho …

In any case, leave a comment telling them that questions should be reasonably scoped. Point them to the FAQ where it says that. … I've edited your post to remove additional questions – feel free to ask them as separate posts, and link back to this question. Thanks! …

If you can't ask questions anymore, you will have to work on having that ban removed, sorry. I don't see how adding a comment to the answer would help you (or others) in the long run. …

You've asked two questions: One that was migrated to Unix.SE on your own request where you then deleted it (so this counts as a rejected migration on our site) Another one that was closed as primarily … opinion-based and auto-deleted later Basically, two closed and deleted questions, which negatively impact your account's standing. …