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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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Are there romanization preferences for tags?
Are there romanization preferences for this site's tags? Do we have a system at all?
Ju v. Jiu
These are how site tags are currently defined:
柔術 jiujitsu (active), jujutsu (active) <- jujitsu (...
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New Beta Theme Launched
Your site looks a bit different today. Yes, we are getting rid of the 'Sketchy' look and replacing it with a more-polished and finished design for sites in beta.
You can read more about the redesign ...
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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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Community Promotion Ads — 2020
You lost your “beta” label in 2019, so welcome to your very first edition of Community Promotion Ads, for the year of 2020!
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads are community-...
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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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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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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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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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Specific question on devices should be closed and deleted
Regarding the question "Which devices might help against an attack?"… I consider this question a prime example of a bad question:
It is a shark vs gorilla.
It asks for a list of things.
It shows an ...
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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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Shouldn't this question be marked as off topic?
The question Why does Wrestling and BJJ exist when Sambo and catch-wrestling are more complete arts? is off topic and needs to be closed.
Opinion based
The question compares multiple arts and talks ...
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Gi and dogi should be synonyms of uniform
The tags gi and dogi should be synonyms of the English version uniform. These are all the same concept, and all current questions tagged uniform are also tagged gi.
Revisiting this years later now. ...
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Definitive hand conditioning answer?
We get a question about hand conditioning every few months. Over and over again, we've told people to not do it, that it's no longer necessary (if it ever was) to cripple yourself to make your hands a ...
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So long and thanks for all the fish
Due to this farewell and associated persistent abusive behaviour from SE, I will no longer participate in any sites until such a time as SE becomes less abusive.
My thanks go to all users of this (...
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2019: 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, ...
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What do we do to get our custom theme?
So, now that we are no longer in Beta, what is the next step for getting a custom theme? From what I understand, this used to be an automatic thing when sites graduated, with Stack Overflow's official ...
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Challenge - Post questions about an aspect of an art we've always been curious about but have never gotten around to asking about
As per https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/52160896#52160896, we're trying to get this Stack Exchange more active by getting some of our frequent posters posting more frequently. In this ...
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Isn't legality off-topic?
Why is this question about legality still open? Krav Maga, is it 100% legal for defense?
The on-topic help says
Questions that should not be asked on Martial Arts include:
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Legalities of martial ...
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Why is a question about the UK get closed yet a question about Japan not get closed?
Question about etiquette in Japan
Can someone tell me why this is not considered too localised? It's only relevant to one country. Yet if I post anything about the UK (another small island nation) ...
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Keeping track of our statistics
Aug 7, 2019: Now that Martial Arts SE is no longer a beta website its Area51 statistics are not updated anymore which means this post won't be updated either.
We cannot see any history of this site's ...
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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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Sexism tag on question about semen retention
Should this infamous question have a sexism tag or not?
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Do we want to exclude questions from the hot network questions list?
A common criticism of the Stack Exchange hot network questions list is that questions that make it onto the list are often not representative of the their parent sites. I would certainly argue that is ...
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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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Are there school-management questions that are not off-topic?
From help for on-topic questions:
Questions that should not be asked on Martial Arts include:
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Business aspects of running a martial arts school (legal advice, retention, location, advertising, ...
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What is the difference between the power and strength tags?
I am working on filling out tag wikis and descriptions, but I am running into problems where I am not able to articulate differences. I have the vague sense that we use power and strength differently, ...
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What is the position on capitalising martial art styles?
As someone who occasionally looks to edit questions and answers, I'd like to know if there is a community consensus on whether to capitalise the name of a martial art, or not?
For example:
I have ...
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How to deal with answers in comments?
There are lots of comments that are short answer, generally under the guide of "I don't know for sure but here is some stuff" or "here is some advise" or "I think that" or "how about…".
This is not ...
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Bad line wrapping in title when editing a question
I edited a question and noticed the wrapping of the title on the edit screen was a bit odd. Have a look at the screenshot; the word 'two' is split after the 't'.
I resized my browser window, which ...
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Stretching for the split …
This question has been closed as off topic. While I agree with the closing, I am uncomfortable with it as it is not in keeping with other questions: two refer to the splits and have 21 up voted at the ...
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Create tag for “Historic European Martial Arts”
I suggest historic-european.
Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_European_martial_arts
I found it missing for this question.
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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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Wondering about the theme change?
Responsive design released for all Beta & Undesigned sites
This is a new responsive theme that has been rolled out. If you have problems, or want to adjust some of your preferences (Such as ...
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Answers in comments…
From the help centre:
When shouldn't I comment?
Answering a question or providing an alternate solution to an existing answer; instead, post an actual answer (or edit to expand an existing one)...
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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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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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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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What is the definition of martial art?
This is an open thread (so to speak) so we can define what we understand as a martial art. The "best" answer should probably go to the FAQ.
Linked question: Do we need to define martial art?
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Additional Moderators Needed
THE REPLACEMENT HAS BEEN PICKED, AND THE ORIGINAL META ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE PRO-TEM SELECTION HAS BEEN UPDATED
Thanks to all that volunteered to take the position.
Ideally Moderators are elected by ...
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Moderator Pro-Tem Announcement
Throughout the beta, we need members from the site whose focus is to engage the community, both in community-building issues and site management. That's why we select a few members from each community ...
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Research on self defence question
This question had me wondering if questions along the lines of the ones below would be on topic or not?
What is the minimum research instructors should do to claim being able to teach self defence?
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Revisiting topicality of stage combat
According to our help page,
Questions that should not be asked on Martial Arts include:
Theatrical or stage combat that focus more on theater or entertainment (for role-playing, re-enactments, etc.) (...
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What should be done with bad answers to bad questions?
Several questions currently on the home pages are terrible. They have down votes and are "on hold"/closed with little hope of getting something of value there.
Yet, there are answers. Most are ...
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Sourcing quotes scope question
There is currently this question on the main site, regarding the source of a quote attributed to Bruce Lee. It has (currently) two upvotes, one downvote, and one vote to close (VTC) as "not related to ...
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What are the best ways to maintain civility in a martial arts discussion
Martial arts can be tricky to discuss. There are many arts out there, and many of them have dramatically different opinions about what are "good skills to know." Some arts don't teach grappling, ...