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Are questions specifically asking about trivial illegal situations without being about rules allowed?
This question is asking about throw-ins thrown directly into a goal. Deflections or any other situations are not "allowed". So everything that would make it actually notable is ruled out.
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Can we have a warning to posters when about to publish an autograph or signature question? [duplicate]
Every time I visit this site I notice some questions related to autographs and signatures in general.
In Revisiting autograph identification questions (conclusion: off-topic) it was discussed and the ...
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How receptive are we to petty edits?
I provided an answer to the following question: NBA Wingspan-To-Height Ratio
A few days later, an edit was made to the question. The word "wingspan" was replaced with "armspan," and the following ...
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What is the consensus on "do-it-for-me" questions?
This question had the following comment:
This is really a do-it-for-me question. You can easily find it out by yourself.
After seeing this comment, I feel like this has been happening occasionally. ...
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2018: 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, in ...
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Data-Driven Fantasy Projection Questions
I understand questions on fantasy sports are off-topic here.
However, I have a few questions that do not fit the fantasy sports stereotype like:
"Who do I start this week?"
"Should I draft ...
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What is the policy on rules questions?
I saw this question on basketball, Basketball "climbing" foul, with an edited answer that stated:
It was downvoted because this site is somewhat of a joke in voting in that they would ...
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Request: For specific officiating decisions, eliminate or define the "notable" requirement
Regarding the following question: Would you have called this a penalty?
I had responded that the ultimate close reason was unclear to me:
As it stands, given this was a local-level match, it probably ...
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Are snide remarks allowed here?
I asked a question about dots on jerseys and got the following comment:
Funny thing is, I saw the photo on a news website and a headline about how the Orioles were wearing dots (admittedly, I didn't ...
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Effects of 2018 World Cup on site traffic
Following up my post from couple of months ago on How can we promote the site for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Below I've provided the same charts, but updated to show data from June and July 2018 when ...
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Add a template close reason for autograph identification requests
The moderator tools show that, in the last 90 days, out of 48 questions closed with custom close reasons, 31 are autograph identification questions. This number is greater than questions closed as ...
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Editing the question about FIFA being against video reviews (the 2nd most voted question on Sports SE)
The question about Why is FIFA against adding instant replay to the game? needs to be edited because the premises in the question are old.
The wording in the title and body of the question should be ...
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Are questions about "Mick Jagger's jinx" on the teams he supports on-topic?
Rolling Stones member Mick Jagger is infamous in sports world for being a kind of "unlucky charm" in soccer - when he supports a team, it usually loses. I'm not sure if questions about this "curse" in ...
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Synonyms for video-review tag
Developing @alamoot's idea, I have crawled our site and tagged bunch of questions with tags synonymous to video-review tag, because in different sports people use different terms for the same concept:
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Why is "offside" a tag synonym for "officiating"?
I was browsing the tags on Sports SE and arrived at the tag synonyms for officiating.
There you can see offside listed as a synonym alongside officiating, referee, and umpire.
Offside is a foul or a ...
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