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Spreading information that has been proven scientifically to be false?
Another user has been replying to an answer of mine (and downvoted it) based on false information. What he is arguing against is something that isn't up for debate, and has been scientifically proven ...
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Do we entertain questions about fake martial arts or practices?
This question (among others) led me to post this.
I want to start off by saying how dangerous it is to entertain false martial arts practices. Untrained folk can see these techniques and think they ...
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Martial art recommendation answer guidelines
Questions for martial art recommendation are likely to have answers skewed by what the answerer is familiar with.
This is inevitable, so it's best to structure the answer in a positive way, that ...
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Why is wrestling often not seen as a martial art?
The question Why is wrestling often not seen as a martial art? has led to some discussion in comment which should have been moved here instead.
Is this a bad question?
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A good martial art recommendation question guidelines
Since martial art recommendations are on-topic:
What should the community's guidelines for a good martial art recommendation question be?
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Should martial art recommendations be off topic?
There are a lot of questions which boil down to someone asking:
I want to learn a martial art, here are some criteria I want X, Y, and Z.
Nearly all are answered by
My style is super cool, you ...
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Should the Shodokan tag exist?
There are 3 questions tqagged as shodokan, all to do with the Aikido style that Tomiki developed. Previously, it was agreed that breaking down Aikido styles in tags was unnecessary.
However, shodokan ...
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How is the community doing?
We are still in beta, still not growing at an amazing rate, and while we have a core of good questions/answers, it is always good to challenge one's views. So, what are we doing right? What are we ...
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What is wrong with a shopping question?
This is the question under discussion:
Old school leather bag gloves
I would interpret this question as being on-topic based on this item:
Martial arts equipment (including use, maintenance, and ...
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Mental health and suicide TKD questions
We have two questions, one about suicide, the other about mental illness which started as being about all possible martial arts. I left comments that the questions needed to be focused on one martial ...
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Films and martial arts
I ask a question about Aikido and films. I asked because I was interested and thought it would be on-topic. I was (for a different reason) looking at the list of questions we should be asking in the ...
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Should we blacklist the medical-advice tag?
This particular tag was originally discussed here: Should we create a medical advice tag?
Questions asking for medical advice are specifically mentioned as off topic, so to me it makes no sense to ...
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Close an old question that was recently edited
There is an old question (about speeding up recovery of a bruise). It was originally asked on 31 May 2012; it has been up-voted (11 times) and has 10 answers, several of which have also been up-voted. ...
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Why is there a `united-kingdom` tag?
Why does the united-kingdom tag exist?
I would think that makes any question tagged with it "too localised"…
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Why do people want to close my questions about assault injuries?
I have asked two questions recently regarding injury rates and severity in martial arts. These questions compare the injury rates and severity to those in actual situations where physical self defense ...
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