Downvoted because in my personal opinion, based on vote ratio and current activity, this hasn't been sufficiently baked to promote to actual policy.

@r~~ I understand your concern, but having a "not yet done" policy is better than having none at all. This is not set in stone and can evolve along with the community. I think this is an important part of the community because any new member has no easy way to understand what they are allowed to ask here (and few are patient enough to dig through meta discussions about this).

@Alexei I respectfully disagree that some policy is better than none. If a potential question isn't asked because it's on a to-be-refined off-topic list, we lose the opportunity to use that question to refine the policy. IMO we need positive and negative examples to see whether the policy is good; establishing the policy prematurely deprives us of negative examples and just biases the process toward keeping the off-topic list as-is.

I was rather hoping that we can break out individual rules of my draft in answers, vote for them, then edit the question until we come up with some manner of consensus. Because by looking at votes on the question, it's hard to tell what specific items people agree or disagree with. Maybe we can create a new post "what's on-topic/off-topic", then people can post individual rules as proposals to vote on?

For example, I disagree with "asking to explain what a certain code does" as off-topic. These should be fine most of the time, long as they are narrow enough.

@Alexei I made a feedback post here. Hopefully we can centralize discussion about specific items there and update once there seems to be a strong consensus.

@Lundin I agree and I have changed the scope page to include this topic with some restrictions (small enough and attempt to understand it). Despite a similar policy on SO, this type of questions are actually allowed (example ).

@r~~ Based on feedback provided by you and Lundin I have already refined the scope, so this issue is pretty covered. Not having such a policy makes it almost impossible to provide a reference to anyone asking about why a question is considered offtopic. Not having a policy is like a very small scale of a legal vacuum which is typically not desired.