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Why has a question on swimming technique been closed as off-topic?
In my opinion, swimming, running, weightlifting, etc. are not primarily sports. Questions about them should be limited to questions very specifically about the sport itself - the rules, for example.
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Why so many 'bar bet' questions?
My general feeling on these are that they're fine, mostly because they're oftentimes the most interesting questions we have... but they're definitely something that can vary as far as quality.
I'm not …
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What is wrong with my question ? What can I do to improve it?
I didn't vote on the question, and don't really know much about it, but a few details that might suggest why it was downvoted.
First, it's not really clear what you're asking. This may be a language …
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Would a question regarding a list of outdated sports techniques be appropriate?
I would not phrase my answer as suggesting "sometimes acceptable, sometimes not". My answer was that it is generally not acceptable, but we occasionally make exceptions - think 99% not, 1% yes.
In th …
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Answer after modify questions
My opinion on that question is that it shouldn't have been modified. The rationale to modifying it was "to allow an answer to be chosen right", but there wouldn't have been any reason not to choose a …
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What shall we do with questions tagged with the "fantasy" tag?
I think there are three separate questions.
Are there any questions that would be tagged fantasy that are on-topic? In particular, questions like this one, which aren't about fantasy per se but are …
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Sports Statistics and topicality
I think that yes, within limits, questions like this should be on topic.
Questions that ask where to find certain kinds of information - whether that be like the question at hand here, asking where t …
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Are questions in the form/manner "Am I too old/young to start/pursue...?" on topic?
It can never be anything but a discussion/opinion question. (So "Too Broad" or "Primarily Opinion Based" are both good reasons here.) …
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Timeline of Sports Moderators
Most of this comes from the Moderators Pro Tempore question edit history, for those curious.
February 2012: Site opens in public beta.
March 2012: Michael Myers, Tonny Madsen, and Jamauss are appoint …
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Can we switch the "StackExchange" button on the menu bar with a Sports SE button?
You can look at Catija's post here to see an example of some of the things that sites can customize.
However, we have not yet had our "site design" phase yet, and likely won't for a long time (we're a …
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Is there an SE mechanism to deal with serial comment deletions by mods/whoever?
Comment deletion by moderators can be viewed by moderators (or above, of course). However, for the most part comments are always subject to arbitrary deletion; they are not intended to persist nor to …
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Should we reconsider allowing (some) fantasy questions?
Yes, we should allow fantasy questions, as long as they are about how to play fantasy, the rules of fantasy sports, types of fantasy, or high level strategies. Tactics, meaning which player to start, …
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Should we reconsider allowing (some) fantasy questions?
No, we should continue to consider Fantasy questions off-topic on this site. The community would prefer to consider only questions that are directly applicable to actual sports; fantasy sports questi …
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2020 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
If there was an issue with the tone of their answers that generated that stream, and it was up to me to handle after discussion with the other mods, I would bring it up in a private chat with them, mentioning … If they continue using an inappropriate tone, then (after discussion with the mod team, and possibly with a CM) I would support suspending them to make it clear that they need to change. …
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2020 Community Moderator Election Results
Thanks to everyone for voting - the activity is great to see! Congratulations to my fellow moderators Nij and Philip. Dly and Olaf, I hope to see you around doing all the great moderating you're alr …