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Shouldn't this question be marked as off topic?
The question Why does Wrestling and BJJ exist when Sambo and catch-wrestling are more complete arts? is off topic and needs to be closed.
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Community Promotion Ads — 2020
You lost your “beta” label in 2019, so welcome to your very first edition of Community Promotion Ads, for the year of 2020!
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads are community-...
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So long and thanks for all the fish
Due to this farewell and associated persistent abusive behaviour from SE, I will no longer participate in any sites until such a time as SE becomes less abusive.
My thanks go to all users of this (...
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2019: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
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What do we do to get our custom theme?
So, now that we are no longer in Beta, what is the next step for getting a custom theme? From what I understand, this used to be an automatic thing when sites graduated, with Stack Overflow's official ...
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Challenge - Post questions about an aspect of an art we've always been curious about but have never gotten around to asking about
As per https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/52160896#52160896, we're trying to get this Stack Exchange more active by getting some of our frequent posters posting more frequently. In this ...
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Isn't legality off-topic?
Why is this question about legality still open? Krav Maga, is it 100% legal for defense?
The on-topic help says
Questions that should not be asked on Martial Arts include:
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Why is a question about the UK get closed yet a question about Japan not get closed?
Question about etiquette in Japan
Can someone tell me why this is not considered too localised? It's only relevant to one country. Yet if I post anything about the UK (another small island nation) ...
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Definitive hand conditioning answer?
We get a question about hand conditioning every few months. Over and over again, we've told people to not do it, that it's no longer necessary (if it ever was) to cripple yourself to make your hands a ...
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Congratulations, you're no longer in Beta!
This site started private beta before July 2012, so it is no longer "beta", it is a full site by our definition. We've removed the word "beta" from your site banner because we believe that you aren't ...
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Sexism tag on question about semen retention
Should this infamous question have a sexism tag or not?
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Do we want to exclude questions from the hot network questions list?
A common criticism of the Stack Exchange hot network questions list is that questions that make it onto the list are often not representative of the their parent sites. I would certainly argue that is ...
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Are there school-management questions that are not off-topic?
From help for on-topic questions:
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Business aspects of running a martial arts school (legal advice, retention, location, advertising, ...
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What is the difference between the power and strength tags?
I am working on filling out tag wikis and descriptions, but I am running into problems where I am not able to articulate differences. I have the vague sense that we use power and strength differently, ...
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What is the position on capitalising martial art styles?
As someone who occasionally looks to edit questions and answers, I'd like to know if there is a community consensus on whether to capitalise the name of a martial art, or not?
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