Obviously questions not about Blender would be off-topic but what should be the general yardstick for off-topicness?

#Update:

Since the site has [moderators][1] now and we can better address on/off-topicness, we feel it is time to start rolling out some of these to our **[help page][2]** where needed. This is so we can have *one* definite place to point new users to.. etc.

It is also worth noting that none of these were thought up by any *one* person. These were decided to be the norm and are only here because of them being agreed upon by the majority. Poke around meta or browse through the [meta-tag:discussion] tag to find these.


  [1]: https://blender.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/165/moderator-pro-tem-announcement
  [2]: https://blender.stackexchange.com/help