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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.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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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 ...
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What is wrong with my question ? What can I do to improve it?
This is the Question I am talking about :
In Cricket T20 World Cup 2021, why are Bangladesh & SriLanka Demoted to Group A/B with Afghanistan Promoted to Group 2?
What is wrong with my question ?
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Aren't most statistics sport-specific?
This question asks if an own-goal counts for a hat trick. It originally was tagged football, although that was edited out. And in association football, the answer is basically, "mostly not"...
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Getting my edit suggestion processed
In regards to this answer, it's been almost a week and my edit suggestion has not been approved or rejected. Is something broken that it's not going through the review queues? Is there some reason ...
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Accepted Answers - to pin or not to pin?
Stack Exchange staff have announced an upcoming change to the way answer acceptance works.
Currently, the original poster of a question can accept one non-deleted answer. This does several things,
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Can someone Create a Yoga Tag?
Can someone create a Yoga Tag, there are yoga sport competitions. I don't have enough points to create this tag.
Thanks,
Question Reference:
What is this bent knee handstand position called in Yoga or ...
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Are questions on sports commentary on topic?
I guess most commentary questions would be off topic, since they are not technically 'sport'. But I am not sure. Are questions on sports commentary allowed?
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Why so many 'bar bet' questions?
It seems to me (and I admit, I may be wrong) that a large percentage of our questions are what I would call 'bar bet' questions. Some examples would be:
How many goalkeepers scored goals in the old ...
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Could someone create a "petanque" tag?
I have a question about my Sports Stack Exchange post: Differences between leisure and competition boules in petanque
I wanted to tag this question with "petanque" but no such tag exists &...
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Is cheerleading on-topic?
A meta answer from a while back speculates about whether cheerleading is on-topic, but doesn't reach a clear answer.
Cheerleading certainly has a strong association with competitive sports and the ...
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Bug in Editing help
In the Editing help page, under Preformatted Text, there is a section on "Monospace Spans", which reads:
`https://`If your browser's location bar starts with , then the connection is ...
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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.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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Should we reconsider allowing (some) fantasy questions?
Fantasy sports questions of any sort, unless they directly impact real sports (and not the other way around), have been considered off topic here since the beginning. The reasons given for this are ...
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Does the tag order matter?
Is the tag order important in questions?
I have asked a question recently and I put UEFA first, but after it posted, the tournaments became the first tag.
Will the first tags appear on the main site ...