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Note that both the tour and the help center will need to be updated with this new scope.

Following the standards of Stack Exchange, questions that prompt for simple answers of yes or no are off-topic. You can see the discussion on Stack Exchange Meta for the full reasoning, but the most important reason is that:

Following the standards of Stack Exchange, questions that prompt for simple answers of yes or no are off-topic. You can see the discussion on Stack Exchange Meta for the full reasoning, but the most important reason is that:

• Figure out if there's anything that isn't on-topic.
• Figure out who the experts are.
• Figure out if devices count as lifehacks.
• Figure out what a lifehack even is.
• Figure out how to eliminate contrived questions.
• Figure out if the overlap with other sites is too large.
• Fix our answer quality.
• Fix our question quality.
• Figure out what is on-topic.
• Figure out how to review and close questions.
• Fix our question and answer quality.
• Figure out how to improve answer quality.
• Find our target culture.
• Figure out how to define what is on-topic based on questions and not answers.
• Figure out of people asking questions are happy with the answers they're getting.
• Figure out if tools are considered lifehacks.
• Figure out if we want to allow tips.
• Figure out why a question was closed.
• Figure out why questions are treated differently.
• Stop a close war.
• Figure out if we can have questions that are too specialized.
• Figure out if our scope needs to be narrowed.

• Product recommendations are off-topic.
• What our chatroom name should be.
• There is no psychological aspect to lifehacks.
• Even questions that seem like they're asking for common sense might provoke lifehack answers.
• Questions may seem unanswerable, but that's not always a bad thing.
• We would rather use the site to help people.
• We don't need people to do a whole lot of research before asking a question, be we need them to make some sort of effort.
• We shouldn't be downvoting answers we think are conventional.

But that hasn't been enough to make the site work, as we've seen with the recent post: http://meta.lifehacks.stackexchange.com/questions/1187/saving-lifehacks-can-we-make-this-a-topic-space-instead-of-a-vague-buzzword

Finally, medical questions are off-topic. Ignoring how people feel about alternative medicines, even doctors who study medicine for years still have to apply some levels of trial and error to get the correct dosage of ingredients for their prescriptions. It is extremely unlikely that we will be able to get all the information needed to be able to provide accurate medical advice over the internet. There is a reason doctors weigh people rather than simply asking them their weight, accuracy matters. Unfortunately, in order to gather information needed to accurately diagnose medical questions, it would require a more discussion-based format that we can't support. Revised: See http://meta.lifehacks.stackexchange.com/questions/1343/how-medical-is-too-medical

See also http://meta.lifehacks.stackexchange.com/q/2431/59

• Figure out if there's anything that isn't on-topic.
• Figure out who the experts are.
• Figure out if devices count as lifehacks.
• Figure out what a lifehack even is.
• Figure out how to eliminate contrived questions.
• Figure out if the overlap with other sites is too large.
• Fix our answer quality.
• Fix our question quality.
• Figure out what is on-topic.
• Figure out how to review and close questions.
• Fix our question and answer quality.
• Figure out how to improve answer quality.
• Find our target culture.
• Figure out how to define what is on-topic based on questions and not answers.
• Figure out of people asking questions are happy with the answers they're getting.
• Figure out if tools are considered lifehacks.
• Figure out if we want to allow tips.
• Figure out why a question was closed.
• Figure out why questions are treated differently.
• Stop a close war.
• Figure out if we can have questions that are too specialized.
• Figure out if our scope needs to be narrowed.

• Product recommendations are off-topic.
• What our chatroom name should be.
• There is no psychological aspect to lifehacks.
• Even questions that seem like they're asking for common sense might provoke lifehack answers.
• Questions may seem unanswerable, but that's not always a bad thing.
• We would rather use the site to help people.
• We don't need people to do a whole lot of research before asking a question, be we need them to make some sort of effort.
• We shouldn't be downvoting answers we think are conventional.

But that hasn't been enough to make the site work, as we've seen with the recent post: Saving "Lifehacks" — Can we make this a topic space instead of a vague buzzword?

Finally, medical questions are off-topic. Ignoring how people feel about alternative medicines, even doctors who study medicine for years still have to apply some levels of trial and error to get the correct dosage of ingredients for their prescriptions. It is extremely unlikely that we will be able to get all the information needed to be able to provide accurate medical advice over the internet. There is a reason doctors weigh people rather than simply asking them their weight, accuracy matters. Unfortunately, in order to gather information needed to accurately diagnose medical questions, it would require a more discussion-based format that we can't support. Revised: See How medical is too medical?

See also A Lifehacks Manifesto