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Limitations on "too broad" as a close reason
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"Too broad" is currently a close reason. How broad is too broad?
- "Cannot be answered in just a few paragraphs" seems too vague to be meaningful, and some questions can be very narrow yet require long answers.
- "Invites multiple distinct answers with no way to determine which is correct" – this is Judaism; that's basically a given that a question falls into that category.
- Narrower definition: List questions. Any question which specifically seeks a list of answers, perhaps of at least length X for some sufficiently large X.
- "To sufficiently answer the question, one would need to know an unreasonably large number of subjects, for some suitable definition of 'unreasonably large.'" Again I see a problem here in that some questions may on their face not require such a broad knowledge base, nor is it always so clear where you draw the line between knowledge bases. Conversely there may be a question which at face value does require a broad knowledge base, yet can actually be answered succinctly (especially if the question is "are there any sources which..." and the answer is "no").
Now, there may very well be a grey area between "definitely okay" and "definitely too broad." That's okay. What I'm seeking here is if anyone has a good yardstick for measuring the "broadness" of a post.
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