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Ah, I wasn't familiar with the subreddit, so I was just taking it as a free for all, so no question is out of place. Especially as lemmy is smaller, and lacks enough traffic in niche communities, it makes sense to have a bigger community for just answering whatever comes to mind.
But obviously there's issues with that, if the community was swamped it would make sense to have a stricter guideline.
I mean if this is gonna be a catch-all for every question ever, why do we need it when asklemmy exists?
Guidelines make communities unique. And why did we remake the sub if we weren't going to continue the spirit of it?
Totally. I was just being descriptive not prescriptive. I wasn't aware of the sub, and thought this was a fun lemmy thing, particularly suited to its smaller user base. And I've always associated asklemmy / askreddit with asking people's opinions, wanting a broad range of answers.
Looking at the guidelines, there doesn't seem to be any guidance about what kinds of questions beyond "ask away". The rules are mostly about no trolling, NSFW, etc. So, my comment was giving the perspective of someone who didn't associate the community with a reddit thing, and the message it's giving off is "ask any question" and that seemed cool to me. But I have no problem at all with it being more specific than that, having explicit guidelines or just a culture of up/down certain types of questions. Community guidelines and specialisation are good! But with lemmy smaller user base more broad communities can also be good!
I think most people don't like to see obviously leading/rhetorical questions, but I'm (personally) happy with seeing more abstract, whimsical, or interesting questions than just "stuff you feel like you should know but don't ". Looking at the top posts in the community, there are some "what is wage theft/a sovereign citizens/etc" which seem to be the classic "everyone else seems to know something I don't" situation. Then there's a bunch of fediverse, corporation and tech industry opinion questions, which definitely do seem more like an asklemmy thing. But "can you live on pickles?" or "would nuclear weapons be useful in a space battle" are the kinda questions I think are fun and I generally enjoy reading the responses and learn something, but they're not "stuffy you should be expected to know" (well, maybe the pickles answer is pretty obvious, but the reasoning isn't necessarily...)