Timeline for Should we allow sports trivia?
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| Feb 14, 2012 at 23:47 | history | edited | Zann Anderson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 11, 2012 at 4:30 | comment | added | wax eagle | I think "trivia" might be the wrong word here. The real question is what does expert Q&A for fans look like? Its pretty easy to determine what it looks like for participants in a sport. Figuring that out will solve a lot of this (I'd imagine its going to be stats definition heavy, and who broke x record light) | |
| Feb 10, 2012 at 18:16 | comment | added | corsiKa | There's no hard feelings. I personally don't anticipate trivia questions being a huge portion of our question base. One thing worth noting is that this is meta: splitting hairs is what we do here. It's our responsibility as a community to define what we do and don't want, and why. Heck right now, we don't even have a goal for the site clearly defined. You could not, in one sentence, say what the goal of the site is. It's going to be... rough... for a little while until we get things sorted out. That's the primary reason for the week-long private beta, to get a head start on sorting it out. | |
| Feb 10, 2012 at 18:06 | comment | added | Zann Anderson | I don't know, I guess you get into splitting hairs when you get too deep into "what trivia/rule/____ questions are valid"? I just think trivia has its place and that this isn't it, but if that's not what everybody else feels then so be it - it's the community that counts here. | |
| Feb 10, 2012 at 17:34 | comment | added | corsiKa | Many rules questions are the same way, though. All the rulebooks are available online. If we didn't allow trivia would we allow rule questions? | |
| Feb 10, 2012 at 17:25 | comment | added | Zann Anderson | Ok, I can see that. I just think that saying, "Trivia! Bring it on!" sets the bar pretty low. I'm afraid you'd be opening the door for lots of the kinds of questions I illustrated in my answer. | |
| Feb 10, 2012 at 17:19 | comment | added | corsiKa | Well, how about "Who is the NFL's all time solo sack leader?" I mean, how would someone go about trying to compile something like that? | |
| Feb 10, 2012 at 16:55 | comment | added | Zann Anderson | Fair enough, less discussion is better. Still, I don't think a Q&A site is the same as a "trivia" site. What exactly constitutes "hard to Google sports trivia"? | |
| Feb 10, 2012 at 16:52 | comment | added | corsiKa | But the StackExchange model is not supposed to promote discussion. The more objectively an answer can be answered, the BETTER it fits the model. The point is that there is lots of information that cannot be googled so easily, and that people don't necessarily know where to look. | |
| Feb 10, 2012 at 16:50 | history | answered | Zann Anderson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |