What kind of game (in Scratch) would require use of a list?
It is clearly too broad, but finding great examples is also entirely central to what we do as educators. How could a question like this be reworked to both help someone like @Scimonster find ideas for projects, but also garner "Good Subjective" answers?
To add to this, we already have a lesson-ideas tag.
While I like the idea of soliciting help for finding examples, I think this particular example would fall under the category of "too broad."
As I see it, this relates to our lesson plan review thread. It could just be as simple as providing more context; the question itself is not inherently problematic. I'd just want to know things like:
The issue to me is precision. With more context and background, this kind of subjective question can lead more towards good than bad.
It'd be good to form a list of helpful information when we get questions like this one, so we say, "To improve your question, please provide X, Y, and Z..." as in student ability, classroom context, learning objective, etc. Determining the key elements to making a "good subjective" question for teaching examples is our challenge here in meta as we form this community.
AS seen by the answers posted before it was closed, the question is too broad. Even if it was narrowed down as Peter suggests, it still is likely to generate answers that are either simply the name of a game, or a list of games. As such, in a general way, it's not a good fit for SE sites on any stripe. A better approach is probably to ask about the elements to look for in a game that will help you link to the desired concepts. I'm not saying that in this case using lists is not the best way to create the desired connection, but often when a list-generating question is asked it ends up being called an "XY" problem. The OP wants to do "X" (the issue) but asks about "Y" (the proposed solution. Questions do better, get more useful answers, when the objective, or problem, is presented directly.
The goal, particularly in beta, should be to take these overly broad questions and edit them into something (probably narrower) which can be re-opened as a good example of the question. This can be a tricky thing to practice, and some questions are probably better left to be deleted, but this one for example seems worth rescuing. One approach that seems to work is to modify the question so that the best answer of the list is actually a good fit - interestingly, sometimes this actually results in a subsequent answer which is even better.
