Questions tagged [asking-questions]
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Political and Scientific questions are off-topic for Hinduism SE
Recently, a user posted these questions:
Why Hindu saints are targeted very badly in India?
I have been living outside India for the last couple of years but I saw plenty of fake cases against Hindu ...
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Is "What scriptures/XYZ say about ...<my off topic query>?", a freeway to convert a Qn to on-topic?
There are numerous Qn-s (including few of mine), which starts with,
"What scriptures/some school/my favorite philosophy/acharyas/XYZ say about [some concept]?"
Many a times these Qns are on-...
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Are we correctly tagging "scripture" tag?
Recently, I have found out that scripture tag is not correctly used.
According to the tag wiki excerpt of the scripture:
For questions about the holy texts of Hinduism. Please also use a more ...
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Can we have some quality questions now?
I would request users now to ask some sensible questions on the Hinduism site. Ain't sure why but some users do debate with me when I say that these types of questions should be marked off-topic.
Let ...
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How to answer questions about the status of divine weapons?
How do we answer questions such as:
What happened to the Vijaya bow after Karna's death?
What did the Pandavas do with the oldest sword in the world?
What happened to the Akshaya Patra after the ...
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Are unanswered questions affecting the site's graduation?
Despite substantial activity, the site is still in "beta". There are many unanswered Qn floating around. Most of them are either too off-beat for general taste or simply unanswerable due to blog ...
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Why was my question closed? What exactly is an "opinion-based" question on Hinduism.SE?
My question How to introduce Hinduism to Children? was closed as "primarily opinion-based."
The SE standard explanation is:
Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert ...
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I want to ask a question on home buying vs. renting - how should I frame a valid question?
If I ask a question: "According to Hindu scriptures, is buying a home better than renting one? What are some arguments for or against buying a home (vs. renting it) considering that our life on earth ...
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Do meta questions have a quality standard?
A few weeks back, there was a question posted on meta Why is it marked as duplicate?
From the title, it asks why the question is marked as a duplicate of another question. But when we look into the ...
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