Additional import: questions we want which were missed
For those who don't know: while this site was being proposed, I raised some issues about not importing questions with the [magic] tag. After some discussion, I feel like we reached a consensus that some [magic] questions, which are focused on the science rather than the magic, would be on topic, but that importing all [magic] questions would flood us with off topic questions. I said once the site had been up for a bit, I would track down some examples of on-topic [magic] questions, so that we can determine what needs to be imported, and how best to go about it to make sure we don't get questions we don't want.
As promised, now that the site has been up and running for a few days, I went back to Worldbuilding and dug around some to see what questions might have been skipped by the import, which are on topic here and should be imported. Hopefully a list will help us determine a common denominator we can import based off of.
I went based off of the [magic] tag, sorted for the most votes. I'm sure there are plenty other examples, but these sum up the kind of questions I think we want, which still use the [magic] tag.
- What's the smallest change to physics required to allow magic? This question is borderline. It deals with the non-scientific magic we don't want, but the question is actually about how much the laws of physics would have to change to allow the magic; the question isn't actually about the magic itself. I'm not sure if we would consider this on topic or not - discuss below please.
- Explaining where energy comes from to power magic Again, this question deals with the kind of magic we don't want, but is interested only in what in the real world could provide the power for it. It doesn't ask how the energy is controlled, but rather where the energy comes from. This seems to me to be on topic.
- What would happen if magic was constrained by the second law of thermodynamics This question is so focused on physics that it lost me half way through. Surely something with this much science is on topic?
Below, please note how many of these questions you think are on topic and should be ported (if any). And (if applicable) how we might go about filtering the science-focused questions from the magic-focused ones.
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