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What's on topic and what's not. How should we define or change our scope as we find topics that are currently off topic but shouldn't be, and vice versa.

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If the Diving question of a similar format is allowed, why is Surfing not allowed?

Alex - I am the mod who originally closed your question on Outdoors.SE. I probably shouldn't have tried to migrate it here, but was travelling, working on my mobile and thought it could perhaps fit he …
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What kind of questions about vacation can I ask on StackExchange?

Your question is effectively a recommendation piece with speculation on what might happen - which is not a good fit anywhere on Stack Exchange, as there are no correct answers - and when that was clos …
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Why was this question about early check-in closed as opinion-based?

As @Willeke commented, various folks reckoned it was opinion-based and voted to close it, including me. As you can see from the varied answers this has been shown to be correct - each answer has a dif …
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