Hi. We have a great community that we dearly love. part of it is that people, well, 'shoot the shit' even on questions that need and deserve a serious answer. This is sometimes very much not needed or wanted by the OP.

As a solution, we have implemented a flair called 'Serious Question' that you cam add to your own question posts. If such flair is set, only serious answers are allowed.

For example, on a seriously-flaired question about which towns are worth visiting, we would remove "Olten" answers (and leave somtehing like 'Olten gets a lot of shit, but the old town really is nice)

When appropriately, the mod team may set the 'serious question'-flair and apply the stricter rules. This will only happen seldomly when OP may be harmed by joke answers.

I just wanted to bring this to your attention while the sticky slot sits unoccupied for a few more days :)