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I agree with everything in Sp3000's answer, with the proviso already discussed in its comments that there's some merit in having semantically similar examples on opposite sides to confirm that the pro …

Those questions are almost always written by a single user. I don't know why they like to make all their questions about "Grandpa", but it's a single person's quirk rather than a tradition on PSE as a …

I'm not going to comment on "allowed", but all the information required to solve a puzzle (perhaps assuming vast intelligence and knowledge) should be in the question itself. Hints are for making the …

I think your answer was downvoted because others thought it was (1) wrong and (2) badly explained, and perhaps also because (3) they didn't like your accusations that everyone else was misunderstandin …

Questions should not usually be radically altered after posting, other than to correct outright errors. This is for the exact same reason mentioned by the questioner here; major edits may make nonsen …

So far as I know, there's no mechanism that will automatically have that effect. You can certainly make a promise that you will "donate" reputation from upvotes to a particular question as a bounty. …

There is a real problem, but removing the tag is unlikely to help it Sid observes that most questions tagged lateral-thinking are closed as too broad. Beastly Gerbil agrees: "Most get closed". This i …

I'd like to add a few things that may be helpful in light of some discussion that happened in TSL chat recently. …

I think there are two problems here. It feels like this would be using the Puzzling community rather than contributing to it The purpose of posting this, if I've understood right, would be to encour …

I think homework should not be allowed here, for two reasons. First and most important, getting PSE to do your homework is cheating and we want to discourage cheating. Second, homework questions are …

(This is not my actual opinion, but it's a tenable position. I'm posting this to give people something to vote for or against. If you think you can make a better case for this position, feel free to e …

(This is not my actual opinion, but it's a tenable position. I'm posting this to give people something to vote for or against. If you think you can make a better case for this position, feel free to e …

I'm not sure it's helpful to ask "is that kosher?". That is, there isn't some external rule saying what sort of things are "valid" and what aren't. The questions that matter are ones like these: Is it …

In practice [no-computers] is pretty much exclusively used to mean "I, the poster of this puzzle, wish that computers not be used to solve it". This is definitely a property of the poster, not the puz …

I think basically the same principles apply. Say what the source is (in case anyone's curious), acknowledge that the book is yours (so that your vested interest isn't hidden), be as un-promote-y as po …