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How travel-ish do questions have to be?
Without seeing your specific questions, I'd guess that Expatriates Stack Exchange is a better choice for them. Their help center states:
Expatriates Stack Exchange is for people living or intend to ...
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Question interested in illegal prostitution
The question is fine, the guy was asking if there's a "red light district", the way he asked implied that he is after a legal place, such as the one in Amsterdam.
The answer also is fine, it made it ...
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Is asking to identify a flag on-topic?
If a flag is a symbol of a place, land or a country then it's directly related to travel. No doubt about that, whether you are travelling there, or just asking for pure curiosity.
I do not know ...
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Are questions about traveling while under legal disabilities acceptable for this site?
I think they'd be fascinating and very valid questions. We have had questions about intentionally getting deported from the US, revoked visas, and more.
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please help me to rephrase that my question is accepted by male only moderators
I am your female moderator and while I have not voted to close it, I fully agree with the people who voted to close.
This is an university research topic and not a travel question.
Besides, the topic ...
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Is commuting on topic?
In my opinion, commuting questions are 100% about travel and should be accepted on the site.
Of course like any other topic there will still be questions that are bad for the site for other reasons.
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Answer advocating breaking laws in a foreign country
I am sorry that you feel my answer is "advocating breaking the law", that was not my intention.
The principle of "law" is quite different from one community to another, as a person from the middle ...
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Buried wheelie bins versus writing on churches. Clearly defined criteria?
"Local customs" questions are about understanding how things are done in your destination - those things locals "just know" but visitors aren't in a position to figure out on their own.
It's not (as ...
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What to do with questions where the real answer is to change the OPs behavior?
Telling the OP to stop behaving childishly isn't very nice, and doesn't take into account the genuine feelings they're expressing about this. So we shouldn't do that.
I'd just answer the question ...
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Are deep passenger flight's details-like question on topic here?
That sounds on-topic to me.
If it's a journey you want to do, as a traveller, then it seems askable here.
We've even got a bunch of factoid questions, which do get a mixed response, but are generally ...
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Are historical questions about travel allowed?
The traditional SE model is to pose questions about real-world problems and attract practical answers from experts. But what is a "real-world problem" on, say, SciFi varies from what one on, say, ...
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Is asking for personal experience on topic (and if not, under what category is it excluded)?
Questions that are answered by personal experience are great. Not everything in the world can be sourced back to an authoritative source online (and not everything you can link to online is up to date ...
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Since when SE allow such accusations?
Personally I do find that comment offensive. Not the part circled in red, but the "stupid shit" and "pay attention to me" parts cross a line for me. I am not even completely sure about the "obviously ...
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Should questions about attaining and potentially losing passports be allowed?
Passports are documents that were invented to control travel and that's what they are used for so the connection does not seem thin to me at all. The question is fully on-topic and should remain so in ...
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When does a 'where on earth' question become so vague it's off-topic?
My problem with these questions is that I have significant concern they're not being asked in good faith sometimes.
For example, consider Where's this yellowish building in Texas? The photo is cropped ...
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Layover-like questions -- on topic or not?
I have just now looked at both questions you cited and the problem became immediately obvious. But I agree that it would be less obvious for someone that had not spent a [tragic] amount of time here.
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Is "Where and how to safely buy X drug in Y city?" off-topic?
Okay to ask:
How do I buy marijuana in Colorado? (legal at state level)
How do I buy weed in Amsterdam? (officially tolerated by the government)
How do I buy medical marijuana in Canada? (legal for ...
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Why were my questions based on Thomas Kinkade unilaterally deleted or closed?
Let's say I am asking that I want to see a vista like this in the picture.
World of Avatar in Nighttime by Jedi94, CC BY-SA 4.0
Why it is a bad question? Several reasons:
We want to have an ...
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Is commuting on topic?
I guess the title which contained "new job" triggered the inner bot in us to flag it as off-topic. I also think that some of the close voters (at least me) didn't pay enough attention and tried to fix ...
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How to deal with questions about the recent terrorism-related events in Europe (Nov. 2015)
I disagree that being event-based means they don't belong. The non-safety questions in that horribly named tag, event-based-effects are fine questions. They eventually become obsolete, but that doesn'...
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Is commuting on topic?
I get the feeling that this question would have been received okay if it has been framed as a question about getting from one part of the city to another - where a good answer would be able to discuss ...
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How to deal with old question and old information?
I have some thoughts on this:
Adding a new answer if you know the answer;
Or, leaving a comment that the answer is obsolete. So, in the future the question finds its way to surface again, everyone ...
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Closure: 'How long will online flight search engines need to feature and include NewLeaf?'
Yes — but please be patient!
Much like closing, reopening takes five explicit votes from users to occur. Typically, users will browse the newest or active questions which will mean that they quickly ...
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Are questions about corruption on topic?
The key point that decides whether a question is on-topic or not is typically whether it affects travellers. ‘Corruption’ is a broad topic that can be split into two, still very broad sub-topics:
the ...
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Are questions asked by locals about local transit on topic for travel.se?
Yes. Commuting questions are on-topic here, and I see no reason that doesn't include public transit. I can't promise you that anyone here has detailed knowledge of the ticketing rules in a particular ...
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Why was the question "Why do some boarding passes fail to mention when gates close?" closed as primarily opinion-based?
I have not voted to close your question, and think it's an interesting one, but I can understand why it's attracting close votes as opinion-based.
Different airlines have clearly chosen to design ...
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Is a question trying to remember the name of a place I've been to during a trip on-topic?
I would say that yes, it is on topic.
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Can I ask for recommendations for a place in a picture?
A general rule for all Stack Exchange sites is that we do not do recommendations.
Besides, all questions are supposed to have one 'right' answer or at least a small number of good answers and your ...
WillekeMod
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Can I ask about why you don't travel to ...?
Please don't ask questions like that, they're exactly the ones mentioned in the Help Center article What types of questions should I avoid asking?:
To prevent your question from being flagged and ...
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Would a question on how to clean/maintain scuba goggles be on topic?
It will not be on topic on Travel, neither on Home Improvement. I am not sure about Sport, as I never go there.
There are several scuba questions on The Great Outdoors, again it might be not really on ...
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