It's drummed into anyone on Stack Exchange if you've been here long enough. Something along the lines of:

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> If you've never used a site before, check the site's scope on the help page and ask on meta if you're unsure before posting a question.
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Right now we don't really have content that's useful on our help pages (something we should work on) and we're still really *determining* our scope - that's what the beta period is *for* (among other things). One of the best ways of determining scope is to post questions and see what the community thinks of them - do they get closed or do they stay open. 

As such, at our **current state** of being only two months into existence, how should we address questions that ask about whether a subject or area of questioning is on topic or not?

Some examples:

* [Is a question asking how to phrase an introductory message on a dating website on-topic?](https://interpersonal.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1570/is-a-question-asking-how-to-phrase-an-introductory-message-on-a-dating-website-o)
* [Are there some topics that are too sensitive to discuss on the main site?](https://interpersonal.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1433/are-there-some-topics-that-are-too-sensitive-to-discuss-on-the-main-site)
* [Is this question on-topic for this site?](https://interpersonal.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1343/is-this-question-on-topic-for-this-site)

These questions so far haven't been asked with great regularity but they do get asked and, often, not really answered. What should we do when these questions are asked here?

For the purpose of this discussion, we're talking *only* about questions that have **not** yet been asked on the main site. Someone asking "why was my question closed" is not what I'm asking about here. (yes, I know that the last example was asked on the site but it was asked *after* the meta post was made).