Questions tagged [recreation]
The Recreation category includes proposals in subjects like sports, games, and hobbies.
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Board & Card Games exists and is ready for your questions!
To all followers of these proposals:
Advanced Squad Leader
War Games and Miniatures
Game of Go
Chess
Bridge
Magic: The Gathering
Poker
I'd like to direct you to Board & Card Games. B&CG is ...
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Game-specific sites
There are a number of proposals around specific games, of both the computer game variety and the board/card game variety. Meanwhile we have a Gaming site that covers all types of video and computer ...
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Should we expand the LEGO proposal to also include other brick families, like K'Nex and Erector?
Proposal: LEGO
There has already been comments about this to the proposal.
It will probably boost the popularity of the proposal to include others, and the tag system in StackExchange will work well ...
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Why is the Magic: The Gathering proposal shutting down?
Proposal: Magic: The Gathering
We are going to close the Magic: The Gathering proposal here on Area 51.
There are a number of reasons for this. I'll do my best to enumerate them:
Currently, Board ...
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Supporters of "Running" please come over and get "Exercise and Fitness" over the hump! [closed]
I'd honestly like both of these ultimately succeed. However, it seems that to achieve critical mass, we should first start getting the more general category of Exercise and Fitness up and running. So ...
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Would the Woodworking site duplicate the Home Improvement site?
I created a proposal for a new SE site on Woodworking. This new site may have some overlap with Home Improvement. Are there enough new topics to warrant a separate site?
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Merge "Running" into "Excercise and Fitness"? Will they sap contributors from each other? [closed]
In response to Rick Roth's answer to my other question.
Should we merge Running into Exercise and Fitness? I can see arguments both ways. There certainly are a lot of questions specific to long ...
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What will it take for Firearms to get off the ground?
Proposal: Firearms
Firearms has a storied history. It was one of the very first proposals, but has been plagued by a number of difficult and vocal members. It eventually made it into the commitment ...
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Could this be merged with Weapons?
Proposal: Firearms
Could firearms be merged with Weapons proposal? It seems they alrready include firearms there too...
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Do we need a "Firearm Safety" site for questions like this: "How to disable a gun so it can be used as part of my halloween costume?"
Firearm safety should always be the cornerstone of any Firearms Q&A site. Which should mean that any question that involves a safety violation indicates that the OP has a lack of understanding of ...
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Are naval vessels like destroyers and corvettes in scope?
As per my question, do naval weapons have scope in this site because up until now example questions are mostly about atomic and hand-held weapons.
IMO putting naval and aerial weaponry will increase ...
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Anime: should we allow the use of romanized Japanese titles?
Proposal: Anime & Manga
Every anime has a romanized Japanese title (romaji). Most popular anime also has an English title.
For example, this question can be written as
How many times did Louise ...
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Do we need another competitive programming site?
Proposal: Algorithmic Competitive Programming
There are a number of places on the Web for competitive programmers to ask and answer questions:
The Competitive Programming topic on Quora gets a lot ...
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How can we help this proposal to succeed when the previous one failed?
Proposal: Railways and Railroads
The previous version of this site had 100 followers, but failed through a lack of +10 questions - what can we do to help this one succeed? Were the old questions ...
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Anime: Are questions about plot/story theories allowed?
Normally on StackExchange sites, discussions are not permitted. However, for the Anime & Manga forum, would it be permitted to ask a question such as "In Naruto, given the direction Sasuke is ...
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Warn user when a proposal has been deleted for inactivity
It's just come to my attention that one my proposals (Paper Craft) has been missing from my profile and my example questions have disappeared. I had no idea if it had been merged or deleted.
The only ...
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What would separate this site from Board & Card Games?
Proposal: Magic the Gathering
We currently have a Board and Card games Stack Exchange, which allows Magic the Gathering questions. What would this proposal do differently from them?
As previously ...
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Shouldn't we try to promote this on other Anime sites? Is it allowed?
Proposal: Anime & Manga
I think the proposal for the Anime & Manga stack exchange site is not being spread very well. Which makes me want to ask if its allowed to try spreading it on other ...
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Will Public Firing Ranges Allow You to Put Up Advertisements Promoting Firearms SE?
I joined a public safety shooting range. Next time I go, I plan to talk to the range officers about the Firearms SE site.
If each person who has committed to this so far can get 5 more people to ...
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Would discussing how everyday items can be used as weapons be on topic?
Proposal: Weapons
Would questions about using an everyday object (that wouldn't normally be considered a weapon) as a weapon be on topic for Weapons?
I would think it's off topic, but want to ...
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About related, existing sites
Proposal: Game of Go
I'll be frank: I am afraid this site might fail.
In my opinion, it is absolutely necessary to be able to include content from Sensei's Library without loss of functionality. ...
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Should I make a new proposal to try to merge other subsets? [closed]
I recently answered a question on this forum about the possible merging of Motor Vehicle Maintenance and Repair and some proposal with fewer followers / committed.
In my view, merging the following ...
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URL for this site
Proposal: Amateur Radio
Now that we're launching soon, I just wanted to make a simple request. The name that has been chosen for this site is
radio.stackexchange.com
But I would also like to ...
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Speedcubing on topic here?
Proposal: Puzzling
Speedcubing is the act of solving Rubik's cubes and other closely related puzzles quickly. It's sort of a half-sport, half-puzzle activity. There's already a Sports site, but so ...
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If you are only active on Amateur Radio SE, please, consider also being active on another SE site!
Proposal: Amateur Radio
If you are only active on this Amateur Radio Stack Exchange proposal, please, consider also being active on another, already established Stack Exchange site and gain there a ...
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Joint site for competitive board games
I think competitive board games are quite different from recreational board games in nature and draw different communities. The typical questions asked in the proposals for go, chess,... are very ...
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Duplicate of "Arts and Crafts" and "3D Printing"
Proposal: Make
The text of this proposal reads:
Proposed Q&A site for people who fashion things with their hands, 3-D printers, cosplayers, costumers, glassblowers, makerspacers, robotics, ...
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Where can we get more involved commiters?
Proposal: Game of Go
Go clubs?
Authors of popular Go blogs?
Facebook?
Let's send e-mails to anybody we know or to Go "celebrities".
(Note: I asked Alexander Dinerstain to advertise this SE on his ...
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Anime: are questions about subbing groups allowed?
Proposal: Anime & Manga
Shall we accept questions about anime subbing groups? In some cases their activity may be illegal. Here is one example question.
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We need to reach out, now!
Proposal: Amateur Radio
Viewing the nice committers graph to the right, its beautiful exponential shape reminded me of a capacitor charging to the full available potential. It looks like marketing ...
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Should ARES be on-topic in the Amateur Radio SE?
Proposal: Amateur Radio
One part of an Amateur Radio Operator's (for want of a better word) charge is this -
In the event of a failure of regular communications he may provide necessary ...
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What kind of cosplay questions would be allowed?
Proposal: Anime & Manga
The description for the proposed Anime & Manga SE states "Proposed Q&A site for anime fans, otakus, cosplayers, doujin producers, etc."
Right now, the only sample ...
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I made a proposal and it disappeared
I made the proposal "Mushroom hunting", it disappeared and I can't trace what happened. Was it closed due to some reason? Was it deleted? Why I can't find out what happened to my proposal?
Thanks for ...
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Could posting some Youtube videos help garner commitments?
Proposal: Woodworking
In another discussion on this forum the idea came up to contact some of the YouTube/internet woodworking guru's to help promote the Woodworking Community proposal. It was, ...
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Starcraft is a tag on Arqade
Proposal: Starcraft
We already deal with any and all starcraft and starcraft-2 questions on Arqade.
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Expand the scope to include visual novels, and light novels?
Proposal: Anime & Manga
This is a proposal for scope expansion.
Visual novels and light novels can be very closely related to anime and manga. Should the proposal be changed to include the ...
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Anime: are in universe or out of universe (or both) types of questions allowed?
Proposal: Anime & Manga
What "angle" should questions here have? Should they all be "in universe" questions which ask about specific anime? Are "out of universe" questions which don't ask about ...
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Pokemon cartoons: subset of Anime? [closed]
Proposals: Pokemon and 4kids translations of cartoons, Anime & Manga
I'm not an expert in this area (or even a novice, to be honest) but my impression is that the Pokemon and 4kids translations ...
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Are questions going to be limited to Japanese animation and manga?
Proposal: Anime & Manga
I realize a lot of Japanese animated shows have a lot of Korean or Chinese studios working under the main animation production studio, but the focus is still going to be ...
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Fantasy "weapons" are not in scope
I propose that fantasy "weapons" should probably not be in scope. "Weapons" being any device or machine designed and/or used for war or warlike purposes. Unless they are trying to make comparisons ...
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Should CB be on topic?
Proposal: Amateur Radio
As mentioned in this answer, there is a discussion about if CB radios should be allowed. So, should they?
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Are "Where can I find ____?" allowed?
Proposal: Anime & Manga
You know it';s going to be asked, so I had to put up a discussion.
Example Questions:
Where can I watch Baka to Test to Shokanjuu online free?
Where can I ...
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It's going to come up eventually, so can we all agree....Lego bricks *not* Legos?
Proposal: LEGO
I know this issue can raise hackles, but one of the canonical answers this SE site will have to provide is the correct, unabridged and definitive answer to the Lego/Legos question.
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Will this be a place to find Elmers or are only technical questions on topic?
Proposal: Amateur Radio
Granted, meeting Elmers in real life is best, but what if someone had questions about the usage of a Q-signal (for instance, why is everyone asking me QTH? Someone could ...
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Will SDR (Software Defined Radio) be welcomed here?
Proposal: Amateur Radio
Will this community answer questions about SDR too or is this aimed purely at analog amateur radio?
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Can I ask questions related to Chess AI and algorithms?
Proposal: Chess
Since this is a question about Chess professionals and enthusiasts, I was wondering if this would be the right place to ask questions related to AI implementations for Chess games.
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Isn't Wilderness survival & Bushcraft a subset of The Great Outdoors
Proposal: Wilderness survival & Bushcraft
The title really says it all - isn't Wilderness survival & Bushcraft a subset of The Great Outdoors?
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Have created advertisements on Reddit and Quora. Need your votes now!
Proposal: Arts and Crafts
Probably you can upvote these so that the many people see it.
Crafts reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/crafts/comments/3hjtz6/arts_and_crafts_qa_website_on_stackoverflows/
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Not exactly SE material
Proposal: LOL
As much as it is nice to see humor around this site, a dedicated site isn't exactly what StackExchange was built for. This isn't Cheezburger or DamnLOL, this is a Q&A site.
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Vote for the Woodworking ad in the Home Improvement Community Ads
Proposal: Woodworking
I've made some Woodworking candidate ads for Home Improvement.SE. If any woodworkers are active there, please vote for them!
I've updated the link to point to the 2015 ...
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