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Michael Myers

Mar 15, 2016 16:47

Knowledge of the sport is not required and may actually be harmful

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Michael Myers

Mar 15, 2016 16:45

Pick your March Madness basketball tournament winners here! No cost to sign up, no cost to play, no prizes for winning.

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A J

Jun 26, 2019 13:14

No discussion about Cricket world cup? :(

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Madara Uchiha

Jul 13, 2014 12:38

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alamoot

Jul 3, 2021 00:08

Congrats @philip-kendall for reaching 20k reps

Feeds

Jul 25, 2017 06:49

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Q: What happened to MASTERMIND?

I do not know if the question fits, but anyone knows what happened to the user with nickname; MASTERMIND? If I remember well he was a moderator and the user with many points in Sports section

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random

Apr 1, 2019 00:02

See you all flipping coins and octopus tentacles next year

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alamoot

May 26, 2021 23:18

TIL that the generalist tag (https://sports.stackexchange.com/help/badges/15/generalist) will only be rewarded once all top 40 tags have at least 200 questions on each them (per https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/05/23/generalist-badge-implemented/). This is a hidden requirement that's no listed on the badges pages.

I was quiet disappointed to read that. The badge is the one that I've been trying to earn for a couple of years now. Currently only our top 17 questions have 200 questions. So we're looong ways away. With the new questions rate at what feels like an all time low and still thousand…

Martin Sleziak

May 18, 2021 08:24

SEDE: Questions per day, Questions per month

Michael Myers

Apr 2, 2017 04:07

Congratulations to enderland, who clinched the 2017 Stack Exchange Bracket Challenge title by correctly predicting both teams in the national championship game!

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user 726941

Mar 7, 2021 11:07

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused the most significant disruption to the worldwide sporting calendar since World War II. Across the world and to varying degrees, sports events have been cancelled or postponed. The 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo were rescheduled to 2021. Spectators have no games to watch and players no games to play. Only a few countries and territories, such as Hong Kong, Turkmenistan, Belarus, and Nicaragua, have continued professional sporting matches as planned. == International multi-sport events == === Summer Olympics === The 2020 Summer Olympics and Paralympics were scheduled...

Martin Sleziak

Feb 27, 2021 04:51

Number of questions/answers/posts per month

Martin Sleziak

Feb 8, 2021 07:14

The room (and the site) are now 9 years old.

Martin Sleziak

Feb 5, 2021 16:23

For ice-hockey, here is the Wikipedia article: List of oldest National Hockey League players.

Martin Sleziak

Feb 5, 2021 16:20

sports.stackexchange.com/questions/15707/…

Nij

Jan 20, 2021 11:36

2. how do you certify the PB time itself is accurate and credible?

Nij

Jan 20, 2021 11:35

1. how do you standardise the event being taken so that it can actually be compared (distance? elevation and changes? wind direction and speed? surface type and condition?)

John Zhau

Jan 20, 2021 10:26

With sports where competitors aren't really facing against each other like running, why don't people just record personal bests and compare? I get that there's the competitiveness and mental aspect of sports but with running and vaulting and such, why not just record personal bests and sorta make that the official ranking? (I'm not a sports fan, just curious)

Nij

Jan 16, 2021 08:57

Endurance racing is even more broad, it could refer to the group of marathon and ultramarathon sports, along with Iron Man and very-long-distance events across a wide range of mixed-code competitions. It is not solely a motorsport tag either, and I see no reason to have it solely for two questions about Le Mans, which are already easily found using that specific term. I have removed it also.

Nij

Jan 16, 2021 08:54

Motorsports could be used on a very wide range of question - anything involving cars, motorbikes, powerboats, powered aircraft racing.. and since we haven't found a need for it before, and the more specific Formula 1 tag has also been used, I have deleted motorsports from the one question.

Martin Sleziak

Jul 29, 2018 16:52

In some cases there is also overlap between answer here and some article on Wikipedia. (I guess Wikipedia interface is more suitable for lists that need regular updating.)

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Joe

Dec 30, 2020 17:19

@MartinSleziak We'll probably feature it in a while; we were waiting to do so until after the post-holiday period

Nij

Jul 3, 2018 09:54

fifa should be reserved for questions about FIFA itself, directly, not just things that (might) involve them or are related to the sport. Unless the question also pertains only to the World Cup and not to any other competition or to an aspect of the sport as may be played anywhere else, it should not be tagged with world-cup either. @MartinSleziak

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Martin Sleziak

Jun 30, 2018 11:03

I created the room: FIFA World Cup.

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ᴊᴀᴠʏ

Apr 3, 2016 09:49

Oh great... Actually I don't know anything about the game. I saw the link here and just joined and created a team with auto select mode...:D ... Anyway thankyou :-D

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Martin Sleziak

Nov 2, 2020 22:21

I would see as a minor advantage that Wikipedia link is (in my opinion) more likely to be stable.

random

Mar 1, 2018 17:25

in The Assembly, 30 mins ago, by random

NCAA March Madness creeps on again. If you want to join the unofficial SE group, it's the Waffle Collusion (password: quora)

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Napoleon Wilson

Jan 22, 2018 19:55

That's how the evil people win, though!

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Napoleon Wilson

Jan 22, 2018 19:53

PHI(+6), DUH!

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Martin Sleziak

Jan 22, 2018 05:14

@user685252 Tweets can be oneboxed in chat. But you have to remove that stuff at the end of the url. (In this case I changed twitter.com/NFL/status/… to twitter.com/NFL/status/955196075291303936 )

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Martin Sleziak

Jan 21, 2018 09:39

@PhilipKendall If the thread "Tagging Up: edits, synonyms, requests, and other tag-related work" is supposed to be a centralized place where tag-synonyms and tag-related issues are going to be discussed, maybe it would be a good idea to add RSS feed of that question to this room. (So that new answers are also posted here and get a bit more visibility.)

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Martin Sleziak

Jan 20, 2018 09:50

This is the first time I hear somebody saying that: "Good tagging is easy." My impression is that it is very hard to reach any kind of consensus about tags. (But I have experience mostly from Mathematics.SE which is much larger site.)

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Martin Sleziak

Jan 9, 2018 12:28

Well, it's the first ever tag-synonym on this meta. Congratulations to the Synonymizer badge.

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Napoleon Wilson

Jan 9, 2018 00:12

Yeah, that's a common misconstellation inherent in the very site creation. They should probably be merged.

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steelersquirrel

Jan 8, 2018 09:25

@MartinSleziak Agreed. I was never particularly active in this room, but I was more active during NFL season when Ed was around. It's been a while since I have been over here :)

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Martin Sleziak

Jan 6, 2018 13:15

tennis Switzerland (Federer/Bencic) won Hopman Cup, defeating Germany (Zverev/Kerber) in the final. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Hopman_Cup

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Philip Kendall

Jan 5, 2018 21:45

(For what it's worth, mods get notified about all new meta posts)

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Feeds

Aug 25, 2020 16:08

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Q: Can we have a warning message on creation of new tags?

I find it very easy to mistakenly make new tags by mistyping an existing tag's name. I've also had the issue where I somehow changed the very first tag in the list, when adding a tag a new tag to a question. For example here football was changed to efootball when I added the equipment tag to the ...

discussion feature-request

Michael Myers

Dec 19, 2017 22:28

I only object if it's added in a completely unnatural way, like "[badminton] What are the roles of the various officials?"

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Philip Kendall

Dec 19, 2017 22:20

Personally, I like having the sport in the title if it doesn't make the title unwieldy. I'm aware not everyone has that view though, so don't take that as "word of God" (or even an "official" statement by a moderator).

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Nike Dattani

Aug 10, 2020 20:24

Hi everyone, thanks for the support on my first question (and first post overall) on this site! I had no idea how it would be received.

Martin Sleziak

Jul 8, 2020 09:56

Most frequent tag creators and tag cleaners. This shows that ᴍᴀsᴛᴇʀᴍɪɴᴅ_ᴇᴅ (MASTERMIND_ED) was rather active with tags.

steelersquirrel

Sep 17, 2017 20:44

Football season just isn't the same in here now that Ed is gone. Granted, I usually only come in here around football season, but it's still just...weird :'(

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Michael Myers

Jun 16, 2020 20:47

Congrats to Philip, Nij, and Joe!

Feeds

Jun 16, 2020 20:29

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Q: 2020 Community Moderator Election Results

Sports's first moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied and the three new moderators are: They'll be your first elected moderators since you lost your "beta" label last year. Please thank them for volunteering, and share your assistance and advice with them as they...

discussion featured election

Michael Myers

Jun 6, 2020 23:00

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A: 2020 Community Moderator Election

This seems an appropriate time to announce that I am not seeking election. I've been a member of Sports.SE since day 1, and had the privilege and responsibility of serving as a moderator since the first set were appointed back in early 2012. It was generally understood at the time that pro-tem ...

Martin Sleziak

Jun 2, 2020 00:02

2020 Sports Moderator Election Chat

Open Discussion for sports.stackexchange.com/election/1

Feeds

Jun 1, 2020 20:27

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Q: 2020 Community Moderator Election

The 2020 Community Moderator Election is now underway! Community moderator elections have three phases: Nomination phase Primary phase Election phase Most elections take between two and three weeks, but this depends on how many candidates there are. Please visit the official election page a...

discussion featured moderators election

dly

May 31, 2020 08:27

I don't think we need an extra chatroom for that. There won't be many questions or interviews anyway. Just do them in comments.

Nij

May 31, 2020 05:04

It would appear there's enough anticipated interest in moderation that an election is being put forward by SE. Is it necessary to set up a chatroom for it specifically? Given how little usage we make of The Clubhouse, it would seem better to have the interviews/interrogations in comments (or the usual overflow chats if they become a necessity, rather than pre-emptive ones).