I think this post was removed unjustly.

Hi all. So, I responded to this post earlier: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldbuilding/comments/1ijbbod/looking_for_ideas_on_where_new_cities_would/

The post is gone now, but the author, u/fatalityfun was asking about where it would make sense to place boomtowns in a hypothetical scenario where several asteroids have crashed into North America, and are being mined for minerals.

OP posed this along with a bunch of original art, and some additional information on the setting. It seemed like a completely reasonable request, and it garnered several detailed responses about how to solve this specific problem, one of which I was happy to write.

It was removed because it supposedly violated the fourth rule, namely "This is a DIY community." This post really doesn't seem like a violation of the rule of being a DIY community. This wasn't something like basic research, or asking for the community to make something. This was a specific scenario, with complicated constraints, and a genuine request for help in the methodology of solving the problem. I understand that it might have been a gray area, but this is not the case of someone being lazy or parasitic on the subreddit, but rather someone who is was seeking help with solving a problem in a way that I think falls much more under asking for critique.

Cases of potential collaboration like this are vastly more valuable to me, and I think likely a majority of other r/worldbuilding users than the endless questions about "what your world has." So, I'm posting to state that I think the ruling was wrong, and that this gray area should be clarified to avoid crushing productive collaborative discussions.

Also, u/fatalityfun, best of luck with your project. Your art's great, and the new boomtown scenario is really fun.