Highest scored questions
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How should the tag "Football" be used?
I saw a question with the tag football, but the content was not about football, as I use the term. The question was about "American football." What most countries call "football", Americans call "...
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How can we get more activity?
According to our Area51 site, this site has 3 very weak areas:
Questions per day (.9 as of this post; 1.4 as of 7 May 2013; 2 as of 21 Oct 2013; 2.1 as of 25 April 2014; 2.2 as of 23 March 2016)
Avid ...
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Things to Keep in Mind During Public Beta
Congratulations on making it to public beta! Your site will be publicly visible on Wednesday afternoon.
However, before your move forward, I wanted to point out a few things that concerned us.
A ...
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What is counted as sport?
What is counted as a sport activity?
Do you need to sweat for it?
Does there need to be a competition to compare/asses the gain/value/rank you are at?
For instance: Is Chess considered a sport?
How ...
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Should we allow sports trivia?
Our faq says we are for "participants in team and individual sport activities". It doesn't clarify whether this is limited to questions by participants, or if it includes questions about participants.
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Are questions about fantasy sports on topic?
Are questions about fantasy sports on topic? This is a huge market and a huge aspect of fandom.
Are they on topic?
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Sports.SE and F&N.SE should be merged
Since its inception Sports.SE has been almost completely redundant with F&N.SE. A huge number of questions that have been asked on Sports.SE are on topic either on F&N or on another stack. ...
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PSA: Please stop using outdated rules
Google can come in handy when trying to source a rule mentioned in your answer.
Unfortunately, Google isn't perfect, and some people don't bother to check whether they're using the latest version.
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Don't Forget The FIFA World Cup Event Here!
The FIFA World Cup is among the world's most widely viewed sporting events; almost a billion people are expected to watch the final match coming next month.
…and they'll all have lots of questions.
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Revisiting autograph identification questions (conclusion: off-topic)
I'm starting to think that we need to revisit whether autograph-identification questions should be on-topic here. Looking at the list of recent autograph identification questions, we can see that ...
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Include just link, or copy content?
Short question: should we provide links to the answer, or copy external content into our answer?
Long question:
In response to this question, I provided a link to an external blog (of which I'm not ...
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Hockey versus Ice Hockey - should they be synonyms?
We have two tags, one being hockey and the other being icehockey. I recognize there are other types of hockey (well, I can only think of two: one where you play with roller blades, and the other where ...
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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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Please add support for embedded YouTube videos
YouTube support is currently enabled on Gaming and Music. Considering the number of questions involving a specific play from a game, or a demonstration of a technique, I think Sports should allow ...
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Helping Our New Users Transition to Sports SE
Background
After a lingering concern about close reasons, I started a close reasons evaluation last month. Although the results of the evaluation was respectable and close reasons haven't raised red ...
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