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2024: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
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Can we add Physical Fitness SE as a migration path?
Sometimes questions posted on Martial Arts Stack Exchange are better suited for Physical Fitness Stack Exchange. An example is this question.
Can we add Physical Fitness SE to our migration path for ...
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Ads test beginning December 3, 2024
We’ve been exploring the concept of using open auction to manage advertising on some Stack Exchange sites. Under this model, advertisers (who have been organized into categories based on their ...
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2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
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2022: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
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Bounties offered.by me
Can bounties offered by me can turn out to be disadvantageous for me?
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Participate in meta privilege
Why can't I post a question on the meta site even though I earned "Participate in meta privilege"? This is true for all sites. For how many days do these privileges remain valid?
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Should we close this question as a duplicate or attempt to answer it?
It's similar to other questions (which philip and I have linked). Do we think it is sufficiently different to stay open?
Ways to incapacitate an opponent with little force?
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2021: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
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Rename name of this Forum, or gain more web activity
Why is this StackExchange called Martial Arts? Western Boxing, Dutch Kickboxing, and others are not traditional martial arts from the east. See dictionary terms below specifying Far East and East ...
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If the premise of one's own question is badly mistaken, is it useful for it to remain open/visible?
I asked this question and have since come to the conclusion that the book I'm reading, which this was based on, is not particulary helpful if it doesn't even use basic terminology correctly. While I ...
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What if there is no eligible answer for awarding a bounty?
I set a bounty on a question but no-one's answered. It says I have 23 hours to award a bounty. What happens next?
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2021 Community Moderator Election Results
Moderator election #1 on Martial Arts has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the new moderators are... the same team you've already had!
Please thank them for volunteering and ...
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What is the difference between the [entertainment] and [choreography] tags?
Basically, how are the tags entertainment and choreography different? When should a question be one of these, but not the other? Is there a case where a question is about choreography but not ...
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2021 Community Moderator Election
The 2021 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
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Most elections take between two and three weeks, ...
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2021 Moderator Election Q&A – Question Collection [closed]
The purpose of this thread was to collect questions for the questionnaire. The questionnaire is now live, and you may find it here.
Martial Arts Stack Exchange is scheduled for an election next week, ...
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Announcing an upcoming election
Summary: Martial Arts Stack Exchange will begin the nomination stage for an election on October 4, as your "graduation" election (as a result of having lost your beta label a while back).
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Would a question on how to approach self-defense when intoxicated be viable?
I wrote most of the question before finding myself not certain of whether it was actually a good fit for the site. I think it's a viable question overall as to how one should best defend when your ...
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where to post questions about history, language, and culture of karate
I'm a karate instructor looking to supplement my instruction on skills and techniques with knowledge about the history, culture, and language. For instance, I found this snippet from Wikipedia ...
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2020: a year in moderation
As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months.
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Why isn't there a Bujinkan tag?
Bujinkan (?) seems to be a martial art that appears in different flavors with regularity. Is there a reason why there is not a tag for it? Is Bujinkan already a subset of an existing tag?
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How should questions about kiai/kihap be tagged?
How should questions about kiai/kihap be tagged? Strangely, there is a kihap that was designated as a synonym of kiai, but both of these have zero questions tagged. Is there an English language word ...
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Should we merge the [training] tag and the [practice] tag? How are they different?
I am trying to clean up our "tags" a bit; I am bored and unemployed. I have edited two tags and added some explanation. I came across this now: there is a training tag and a practice tag.
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Shouldn't a question trying to solicit opinions and/or discussion be closed?
I logged on one or two days ago to find this question in the "close votes" review queue. After looking at it a few times, I decided that I agreed with the previous accusation of it being opinion based....
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Should we close this question about "hard martial arts"?
Styles associated with Hard style martial arts?
To me, this question fails on two points. First of all, it's got two separate questions, what martial arts styles are "hard" and how to figure out if a ...
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Shouldn't this question about area-specific training be closed as off-topic?
About the same question talked about here.
This question is asking for help looking for a school in one area. Isn't that specifically off-topic? It also looks like both attempts to answer it have ...
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Why doesn't a question with a close vote appear in the close review queue?
This question currently has a vote to close. Why doesn't it appear in the close review queue?
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Should we prefer English language for tags? (falling v. ukemi)
We currently have the ukemi, which is the Japanese martial arts term for falling technique. To be more English language friendly, should we make a falling and make ukemi a synonym? The current ...
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Lowering required votes for community ads
I asked this question on meta, and they told me to ask it here and have a moderator raise it to S.E.
If anyone has noticed, the community promotion ads post has been sitting in meta for a while. ...
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Should downvoting an answer on a question where you have an answer cost more reputation?
I have had this happen a couple of times, or at least that's what I can gather. Someone, usually a relatively new user that has been on just long enough to downvote, answers the same question as me. ...
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