One of the reasons on which many users are confused is on-topic and off-topic. If you once look at our meta home page, you will see that many questions are like Are questions about X on-topic here?
Are essential oil topic questions on-topic here?
Are recipes related questions on topic or should they be moved to cooking.stackexchange?
Are sorta-vegetarian diets on topic?
Is nutrition on-topic?
These are the questions I found and on the main site, we are seeing some questions. For example:
From the above list,
- Question 1 is closed.
- Question 2 is closed but has a reopen vote.
- Question 3 is closed as off-topic.
To me question 2 and question 3 are off-topic. They fit in Health.SE. But one of our friends answered of the above questions and said this:
Being on topic somewhere else doesn't make them off-topic here.
To remove confusion about on-topic and off-topic, can we add the off-topic reasons in help center? Currently there is nothing defined as off-topic. Same applies for on-topic.
If we consider our personal opinions as on-topic and off-topic, it greatly affects the site quality. Adding these reasons would decrease duplicate questions and off-topic questions, and it would also reduce the number of disputed flags and burden on experienced users and moderators.
For example: The on-topic page of Hinduism.SE.
Keep your answers short and simple and add reasons why they are off-topic. Please one reason per answer.