Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Let's get critical: May 2013 Site Self-Evaluation
We all love Sports Stack Exchange, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from Google, what will ...
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Sports.Stackexchange - don't we need actually two separate stacks for this?
Today I've discovered sports.stackexchange - yet another wonderful beta from Area51.
It looks to me like that there is actually space for two stacks not one.
You see, the phrase "stack exchange site ...
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Should the name of the sport be included in the question title?
Start with examples:
How to attack zone defence? (tagged Basketball)
Is it possible to effectively practice zone defence in basketball if you don't have 10 people? (also tagged)
Now the question is, ...
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How can I ask a question about whether a rule exists in any form of a sport?
I want to ask a question in the basic form of:
Does any form (league, level, conference, etc.) of Sport X have (or lack) a rule specifically permitting (or disallowing) Y?
Are such questions ...
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Is this question considered as localized?
This is the question from a new user asking Is Sher-Wood T90 considered a pro stock hockey stick?, I edited the question correcting spelling but realized that it may be localized and if it is so, what ...
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Are questions in the form/manner "Am I too old/young to start/pursue...?" on topic?
After this question: https://sports.stackexchange.com/questions/13060/athletic-relating-age
I noticed questions about age and its appropriateness to start pursuing a sport/competitive activity is an ...
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Is gossip kind of questions can be asked on this site?
I wrote and answer the following question in order to share my knowledge, Q&A-style.
Why did a swimmer wear a swim cap with someone else's name?
I also wrote it because a lot of people ...
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What should we do to promote the site?
Now looking at http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/27135/sports the stats tell us something is not going well with the site, what should we do? With only 81 visitors per day how should we let ...
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Is dancing on topic?
I see someone posted a dancing question. This is the first question with the dancing tag.
Is dancing on topic here?
There was a Dancing proposal at Area51, but it closed after 1 year without ...
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Airsoft question on topic?
There was a new Sports.SE question recently: How does 'airbreak' work on airsoft guns?
While this question clearly relates to equipment, does this particular question fits into any sport - it ...
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Why did the mods downvote my answer
I provided this answer to the question
How do NFL players know a fair catch has been called?
It was downvoted by 2 of the moderators since
it's just your supposition, and not something from either ...
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Create an "own-goal" tag
I've created an own-goal tag as I think it's an interesting aspect in many sports, and also the inclusion of this tag to relevant questions is very intuitive to me. Then I tried to apply this tag to 2 ...
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Championship - QotY Tournament
This week is our Championship round for Sports SE's Question of the Year Tournament. This week, we have another five way matchup.
A few guidelines:
One vote per user per matchup (denoted by ...
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What shall we do with questions tagged with the "fantasy" tag?
Fantasy sports is off-topic on Sports SE (re: assertion, meta post).
However, there is a fantasy tag that is promoting questions about fantasy sports (re: claim 1, claim 2).
What shall we do with ...
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Community wiki for list-type questions?
This was prompted by this question/answer.
On some other SE sites, this kind of question is permitted, and the default way to answer them is with a community wiki answer where different elements ...
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Asking a question regarding gambling
Before posting a question on the main site, I figured I would double-check over here since my question is borderline off-topic.
This would essentially be the question I would post:
I'm interested in ...
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Double Standards in Questions Containing Resource Requests
A few days ago I've asked a question, which I deleted after a while as it was closed as off-topic and it wasn't possible to improve it because anyways under current rules it would be still considered ...
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Should gender-neutral pronouns be replaced with male ones?
When answering questions, I generally use gender-neutral pronouns ("they", "their", "them"), as most sports are played by both men and women.
As you can see in this edit here, the "they"s were ...
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Let's get critical: Aug 2014 Site Self-Evaluation
We all love Sports Stack Exchange, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from Google, what will ...
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Who were we in Euro 2012... Spain or Netherlands*?
I'm interested to know by how much Sports.SE was affected by Euro 2012?
If I remember correctly, the visitors/day was ~300 before Euro 2012, so we seem to have been successful in that regard (...
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Too Localized Question Evaluation
Regarding: Sachin Tendulkar's bowling record
In said question, the following was omitted:
Does the batting sensation hold any other such fascinating bowling records to his name?
As of the ...
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Is Quidditch considered on topic?
Is Quidditch considered a sport? Are questions about Quidditch permitted here? Although some countries have established rules for Quidditch games, I am unsure whether or not it would be considered a ...
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Would theoretical questions about the interactions of rules with superpowers be on-topic?
After watching a few too many superhero movies, I was left to wonder about how the formal rules of various sports would react to the actual appearance of superpowers and similar fantasy/SF phenomena.
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Are quiz questions on-topic?
In regards to this question:
Regardless of quality, it is clear what the OP is asking and it is not opinion-based. Moreover, Sports SE has chosen to allow trivia content.
Given the community ...
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How much effort should be made when editing a question that is difficult to understand?
I recently encountered this relatively straightforward question on the rules of cricket.
If you look at the edit history, you will notice that I had to make extensive efforts to formatting, grammar ...
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"wicket" - Tag Usage
All wicket-tagged questions have also been tagged with cricket thus far.
From Wikipedia:
In the sport of cricket the word wicket has several distinct meanings:
a set of stumps and bails;
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Proper use of the [bundesliga] tag
Right now the excerpt of the tag bundesliga says:
Questions about the Bundesliga, the highest level of football in
Germany.
However, the Bundesliga is not just that. In Germany, the Bundesliga ...
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How can we reduce the number of autograph identification questions asked by new users?
This community has come to the conclusion that autograph identification questions are off topic. However, it seems like pretty much every time I check this site for new questions a highly ...
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What should moderators do with answers to questions that request factual answers but receive opinion/not supported answers?
This question arose in my head from this question, but would explicitly not apply to it as the asker specifically OK'ed dly's answer in comments. No action is suggested on that question/answer ...
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Why was the "football penalty shootouts" question closed?
Can someone explain to me why this question was closed?
Football penalty shootouts: Germany wins 71% of the time, England 17% only. Any reason?
It looks like a good question to me, and has a very ...
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Merge "tactics" and "strategy" tags?
I'm not sure that there's a lot to differentiate tactics from strategy.
In fact, dictionary.com has strategy as a synonym for tactics.
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The March Madness question
Referring to this question: https://sports.stackexchange.com/questions/520/who-to-pick-for-march-madness
I think this question as posed is not constructive, but is there any way that this question ...
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Could we add autograph identification on What topics can I ask about here?
Recently, I came across this useful "Identify-This-X Questions" section on Movies & TV Stack Exchange help center. Since we have similar autograph-identification questions we could probably add ...
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Are shooting sports on topic
Are questions about shooting sports on topic here? If not, can you answer the same question about the Outdoors site?
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What is a penalty shot?
There's been a few changes in tags recently, and one that has popped up a few times is penalty-shot.
There are two (or three) things to raise on this tag:
What counts as a penalty shot?
What should ...
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Why I got "-3" in my question
This is my question.
I don't know why the people just vote down without comments. Is it a really bad question?
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Questions on sport-related injuries
I had an injury to my knee ago while playing football, I was thinking of asking users about exercises that would be good to strengthen my knee perhaps based on their own personal experience. Would ...
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Location specific questions allowed?
When I go to new location such as London and Oslo, the first thing is: where are the gyms with certain kind of facility like good for canonical training? Where are the bouldering places? Where can you ...
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Actuality problem of questions
On SE sites shopping advice is strongly discouraged, and frowned upon. The main reason behind that is that the market constantly changes, and new products are introduced. The relevance of the answers ...
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Usage of Acronyms/Abbreviations as Tags
spiceyokooko brought up an interesting perspective regarding acronyms/abbreviations as tags in this comment.
From a North American standpoint, it may be widely understood what nfl, nba, nhl, and mlb ...
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Are purchase recommendations for airsoft guns on topic?
I've had a look and seen that airsoft in general is considered a sport in this site and questions about it are accepted. I'm just wondering, specifically, if purchase recommendations are on-topic here?...
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Are questions about "Mick Jagger's jinx" on the teams he supports on-topic?
Rolling Stones member Mick Jagger is infamous in sports world for being a kind of "unlucky charm" in soccer - when he supports a team, it usually loses. I'm not sure if questions about this "curse" in ...
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Are questions about touch rugby on topic?
Touch rugby is a sport widely played in New Zealand and Australia.
It is similar to rugby league, except that instead of tackling, the player with the ball is touched.
However, to the best of my ...
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Are questions in the form/manner "How can I get started in [sport]?" on-topic?
I had assisted in narrowing the scope of this question: What kite-surfing equipment should I start with?, this question: https://sports.stackexchange.com/q/3783 , and this question: how to jump on a ...
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How did we do for the Olympics?
In response to this question: What can we do to promote the site for the Olympics?
As a community, how did we do for the Olympics? Where did we succeed? Where do we need to improve on moving forward?
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Euro 2012 questions
I notice that Euro 2012 questions are getting substantial views.
This Euro 2012 question has 2,500+ views. Another Euro 2012 question has 10,000+ views.
The question asked before What are those blue ...
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Should the Rugby tag be removed - replaced with just Rugby-Union and Rugby-League?
There is no such sport as 'Rugby' which is merely a style of football, there are two distinct sports called 'Rugby Union' and 'Rugby League', which whilst they have a common heritage and some common ...
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Should we have a "high effort" week to increase our question rate?
I, like most people here, really want to see this SE site be a success. As pointed out previously, we are a little low on the question count.
I would like to suggest/propose a period of concerted ...
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Should "beachtennis" tag be "beach-tennis"?
I see that the tag beachtennis got created today. Beach tennis is spelled as two words. Should the tag be beach-tennis instead? I believe that is the convention for two word tags.
I tried to edit ...
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Issue with closing questions
I have a huge issue with certain individuals closing questions related to running stating that they are either subjective or belong in F&N. Running was my original proposal and the intent was to ...