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Which questions are on topic. I posted a question*, and it was immediately destroyed. I was given a reason for why it wasn't on topic, but which ones are?


*Although to tell the truth, my Emacs vs Vi question did have a 27% chance of enrapturing the stack overflow community and causing small riots in related exchanges.

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"Fun" does not mean you can just come post any question that you think is fun. They still have to be on-topic for Meta, meaning they have to be about Stack Overflow in some way. Your question had absolutely nothing to do with Stack Overflow - it was just an opinion poll about which editor people liked.

Past that, a question which is solely fun is usually going to get closed down. The question still needs to have a definitive purpose, meaning that there is a problem that needs to be solved. The tag itself is generally applied to indicate that there is a humorous or joking tone to the problem being described in the question, and could easily be described as a meta-tag since it doesn't really cover any formal topic.

I've copied over the excerpt from Meta Stack Exchange to give the tag a little description:

Questions that are light-hearted but hopefully of some additional use beyond mere entertainment.

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