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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 yo …
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Can we have a warning message on creation of new tags?

I find it very easy to mistakenly make new tags by mistyping an existing tag's name. I've also had the issue where I somehow changed the very first tag in the list, when adding a tag a new tag to a qu …
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Can we switch the "StackExchange" button on the menu bar with a Sports SE button?

On the very top left corner of the website we have the stack exchange logo, which looks like this: Clicking on it gives you a pop up asking if you want to visit the stack exchange home page. Under th …
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Should autograph identification be a default reason to close?

There's also a bit of discussion on the comments section of that answer which I thought deserved a thread of its own here. So what do you guys think? …
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Effects of 2018 World Cup on site traffic

I was personally expecting more discussion this time around since the website is more established, but there are few factors I can think why the data unfolded as it did: Why did we get less good quality … Overall a lot of discussion was generated during the 2018 World Cup too. Another thing I find interesting is that after the end of the World Cup, the site has been very slow. …
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How can we promote the site for the 2018 FIFA World Cup

The 2018 FIFA World Cup in going to start on June 14th, just less than 3 weeks from now. I was curious how the previous World Cup effected the site traffic, after a bit of search I used the queries fr …
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I want to post a question that will start a discussion, and many will find opinion based. Wh...

Most likely it'll start a discussion (or possible feud) between those who give different answers. Here are some examples: Who is the best Soccer player ever? …
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Discussing questions WITH sports teams, leagues and governing bodies

Just like the other SE communities, we provide answers to the questions regarding our topic. However, we have the unique ability that we could reach out to the official governing bodies of sports and …
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Are we trying to be an encyclopedia for sports questions?

So let's say I have a sports related question and if I do a little bit of searching online I can find the question and the answer on some other website. Do we want such questions on SE? In one hand i …
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Link used in the answer doesn't exist anymore

I asked this question: How many times has a 4 game sweep occurred during the Stanley Cup finals? about 2 years ago. It got 2 answers. One was a link to a TSN webpage, other was the list of sweeps with …
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Should we add tags representing years

I agree that having specific tags such as london-2012 is good for the site, but not at the current time. We don't have enough users that use them, so maintaining such user-friendly tags would be an ov …
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Putting two related questions under one vs. creating two separate questions for related topics [duplicate]

So I just posted a question and few minutes later I thought of another question that is related to the original one. So what should we do in such circumstances; is it better to keep the two questions …
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