This post is the second post of a series; the first can be found here and the post that inspired this series of questions can be found here.
How much freedom are we willing to grant users in deviating from the goals of this site?
From the last post, the goals of this site are (by popular vote):
...[this] site should be "for active researchers, academics and students of physics and astronomy", and that we should encourage posters to think of the site as a tool for jump starting their thinking and not one for getting their work done for them.
With this in mind, some points to think about:
- How much leeway should we give in allowing users to ask more basic questions?
- How much leeway should we give in allowing users to ask about more practical applications of physics, such as experiment design?
- How much leeway should we give in allowing questions that could be on chemistry.SE, on biology.SE, on astronomy.SE?
- How much leeway should we give in allowing questions that are less conceptual?
Once the community has reached consensus, as before, an answer will be accepted.
Note: There will be one more foundational question after this one, and then we will return to the discussion of close votes.