ask us to adjudicate “right” and “wrong” in a situation or whether something is rude/racist/sexist/[insert other discriminatory terms]. If you are having a dispute with your spouse or coworker, we are not going to settle the dispute for you or give you points to argue. Focus your question on resolving your issue, rather than whether there is an issue or not.
This may need a little more clarity...
Perhaps:
ask us to adjudicate “right” and “wrong” in a situation or whether something is rude/racist/sexist/[insert other discriminatory terms]. If you are having a dispute with your spouse or coworker, we are not going to settle the dispute for you or give you points to argue. Focus your question on resolving your issue, rather than whether there is an issue or not. Note that this does not mean that questions that arise from issues of racism, sexism, etc are strictly off topic. It simply means don't ask:
- "is it ______ when someone.... ?"
instead ask:
- "how do I respond to and/or apologize for _____?"
Just anticipating that users may misinterpret that as saying all questions involving X are off topic, figured it may be worth spelling it out a little bit more.
It's not that X is off topic, but asking if X is X, is off topic.
We already have something of an issue with users voting to close questions that they find "controversial" we need to be careful not to give them a piece of the help center to use as a justification.
