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The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.

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Handling Questions regarding creationism and evolution

The main problem with your answer is that instead of trying to answer what young earth creationists believe, and why they hold this belief, it tries to argue that these views are truth. The truth of …
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How is Christianity SE different from Wikipedia?

I would not close all questions that can be answered by a visit to Wikipedia. On Stack Overflow, most questions are probably answered by some manual somewhere. The reason users come to the site in the …
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How long can a comment be?

If you find yourself going over the limit, that's usually a good sign that you should take the discussion to a chat room instead. …
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Is it right that questions of religion can have only one right answer?

Subjective questions should be avoided. They are generally considered to be a bad fit for the Stack Exchange format. There are exceptions to this, however. For that, see: Good Subjective, Bad Subjecti …
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Is this hate speech?

Yesterday, I flagged this answer because I felt that it went across the line by comparing a minority (homosexuals in this case) to murderers and arguing that "If you can't get rid of 'em, you can at l …
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SE sites are about a community of experts answering questions on a specific subject matter. ...

An important aspect of the Stack Exchange format is that the focus is on the answers, not on the people who wrote them. For example, many atheists are former christians and are perfectly capable of an …
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Are humorous comments acceptable?

A bit of humor is an important part of building a community around a site like this. As long as it doesn't go overboard, there is nothing wrong with the occasional witty comment. That said, don't be …
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Should we have an accept rate here?

This is incorrect. See here, for example. Accept rates are shown on all Stack Exchange sites, except per-site metas (such as this one). They are sometimes not shown, however, when the user has asked …
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