The Recreation category includes proposals in subjects like sports, games, and hobbies.
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Reopen the Badminton Proposal
Proposal: Badminton
I hereby plea for the reopening of the badminton proposal.
The badminton game is played all over the world by millions of people. Traditionally countries like China, India, South ...
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Closed in just a few days?
Proposal: Tickling
This proposal has just been closed; it's only been around for a few days. Couldn't it have been given a little more time, to see if it could gain momentum? People were asking new ...
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**Instructions For ALL Crank It UP! Followers**
Thank you for deciding to follow Crank It UP!. We are asking you to cast votes for the examples questions, and also to check back to the proposal frequently for new discussions, questions, scope ...
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calculating the deformation in the metal plate in solid works [closed]
how can i calculate the deformation of a metal plate?
how I can model a metal plate to help calculate?
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Is StackExchange vetting historically biased towards topics about syntax and semantics? [closed]
I asked this question on the StackExchange meta forum and mentioned amateur radio as a contrasting example. Please, read the full question and react over here.
Proposal: Amateur Radio
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Would this require age verification?
Proposal: Alcohol
I like the idea, but I'm concerned as to whether this would require some sort of age verification. For example, the websites of many alcoholic beverage companies ask for an age ...
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Is this topic not too broad when compared to the rec.radio.amateur USENET list?
Proposal: Amateur Radio
Hi,
I am the "moderator" of the Windom Antenna Yahoo!Group. This quite specialised group already counts over 1000 members.
I wandered into this StackExchange group because I ...
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Skydiving duplicate
Proposal: Skydiving
This should either be closed as a duplicate of The Great Outdoors, or merged with Stunts
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This is not a duplicate of Motor Vehicles
Proposal: Small engine repair and maintenance
Motor Vehicle Maintenance and Repair does not currently support the maintenance and repair of small two and four stroke engines commonly found in lawn ...
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Very limited scope of Vehicular Stunts proposal
Why would you want to limit yourself to Vehicular Stunts? Why not a site on "Stunts" in general? Right now the site's scope is very limited and I doubt enough people would be interested in supporting ...
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This seems to be included in The Great Outdoors
Proposal: Skydiving
The Great Outdoors seems to support skydiving questions already, even if there aren't many. However, that doesn't seem to bode well for this site either, since that site doesn't ...
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Voting on questions, too
Proposal: Aquarium and Aquatic Hobbyist
This proposal is almost getting enough followers, we would just need that everybody vote on questions that they would like to ask/answer afterwards.
There are ...
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2answers
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Sports Betting Narrow
Proposal: Sports Betting
Isn't this a little too narrow? I mean, this isn't going to have many questions. More of a FAQ knowledge-base and rant place, from my perspective.
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Isn't this covered by The Great Outdoors?
Proposal: Hunting and Fishing
It seems like The Great Outdoors already covers Hunting and Fishing. Do we need another site about it? Especially since the weakest stat about TGO is the number of ...
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1answer
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Why is “Railways” under “Recreation”? Shouldn't it be “Technology”?
Proposal: Railways
It is quite strange that this proposal is under the category "Recreation". Railway is a technology. It is a transportation technology. It utilizes technology in mechanical, ...
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Should we include model railways?
I'm undecided on this - my gut feeling is probably yes, since there will be a lot of overlap - but then we potentially open a whole new realm of questions about DCC, wiring and the like.
Thoughts?
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Will car modifcation questions be on topic?
Proposal: Cars
Will questions pertaining to car modification questions (for example car audio install and removal) be on topic here?
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What are the aspects acceptable on “Railways”?
Proposal: Railways
Here is a list of aspects that I built, including those both likely and unlikely to be acceptable. Please discuss which of the listed aspects are acceptable. Feel free to suggest, ...
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1answer
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Does “Railways” include monorail, maglev and other guided transport?
Proposal: Railways
There are also other types of railway besides those with metal wheels running on two pieces of metal rails running in parallel.
For example:
Rubber-tyed metro
Monorail
Maglev
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Should the description of the **beer** site be more specific?
Currently the proposed beer site's description says "proposed Q&A site for connoisseurs and lovers of Beer." Shouldn't it be more specific?
Proposal: *Beer *
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How can we improve the wording of the Diving proposal?
Proposal: Diving
"Diving" as a title might have other meanings in addition to scuba diving.
In addition, the wording in the description isn't very good, especially with the "and curious about" ...
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Should not the title be “Hobby Modeling?”
...Or "Hobby Model Making," or something.
"Hobby" seems to me to imply that the site's subject matter is everything that is a hobby, which it is obviously not. The SE platform prides itself on ...
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Ships and trains
Proposal: Scale Models
Would this site also include model spaceships, railroad trains and radio controlled propeller boats?
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Apiculture is a duplicate of Bees and Beekeeping
The proposal Apiculture has exactly the same scope as the Bees and Beekeeping proposal. I think it should be merged with the Bees and Beekeeping proposal.
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Do you think a site about scuba diving can be successful in a Q&A form in the SE?
Proposal: Scuba Diving
I myself think it can! I love diving and know there are many qualified divers too who can share their experiences about diving to the others and encourage new learners who want ...
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1answer
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Refocus to static and mobile models
Proposal: Radio Controlled (RC) Modeling
Could this site be expanded to encompass non-mobile models? There is much crossover in terms of: how to scale, materials to use, conversion of static to ...
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Get the word out
The hardest part of any proposal is getting a good start. I think that everyone interested in this topic should tell their friends about it, as well as posting it for forums and facebook. Let's get ...
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1answer
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Would figurines etc be welcome?
Proposal: Scale Models
Would miniatures/figurines etc be welcome? Stuff like making custom or painting Warhammer4000 minis?
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Differences with EE
Proposal: Amateur Radio
See the announcement on the Arduino proposal:
Questions on the electronics engineering aspects of Arduino? Ask on Electrical Engineering.SE!
Should we have something ...
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First Aid category
Proposal: First Aid
Why the First Aid proposal are in Recreation?
Wouldn't be more suitable to Science or Life?
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Proposal description: include the experts
Proposal: First Aid
From what I learned around Area51, SE is all about attracting the experts in the topic, the rest will follow and the community will grow.
That said, it might be interesting to ...
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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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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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1answer
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Will we accept questions about how radios work?
Proposal: Amateur Radio
Are we going to accept questions about radio features or how radios work in general? If not, if there another site/proposal we can point people to?
I don't see why we ...
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Closing of non-duplicate puzzles
Proposal: Puzzling
This example question was closed simply because it was a puzzle.
We need to get up to 40 questions with 10+ score so I don't think it's wise / viable to close all except 1 ...
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Alcohol and Recreational Drugs?
Proposal: Alcohol
Why is this site exclusively about alcohol, why not include questions about recreational drugs as well?
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Why duplicate question doesnot closed here?
There are multiple question which are duplicate here, But they are not became close as it is done in other SE's. For example take these three question (1,2,3). All three question are completed ...
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Proud about the questions, but so few votes
Proposal: Aquarium Hobbyist
Unlike some other proposals, this one has jut 42 users but a lot of very good questions! I'm really proud of it, perhaps this time this proposal will find it's way to the ...
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1answer
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Isn't Airsoft a subset of Sports and/or Weapons?
Proposal: Airsoft seems like a duplicate/overlap of Weapons and Sports.
How does it differ from those established proposals/sites?
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Duplicate Of Sports
Proposal: Football (soccer) playing and rules
This is a possible duplicate of sports.
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Is it a viable proposal?
Proposal: Weapons (Firearms, Knives, Archery, etc.)
There was a similar proposal a few years ago that died out due to insufficient attention and activity. Do you think this proposal will be viable ...
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Aren't all of these questions valid on Arqade?
Proposal: Retro-Gaming and Modding
I can't help but note that all the proposed questions are valid for Arqade or GameDev (or bad questions in a more general sense), and wonder why we need a new site ...
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1answer
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How come that people say they become sleepy of drinking red wine [closed]
I've heard many people say that they are soon sleepy in the evening when they have been drinking red wine. Especially when the wine is warmer than is actually should be.
Is there any explanation for ...
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Winery versus vineyard — Do you lose quality when wine is made away from where it is grown? [closed]
I live in Washington State, and most of the red grapes are grown in Eastern Washington, where they have hot summers and cold winters. There are a lot of small wineries in my area on the West side of ...
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Should this site cover historical wargaming like Field Of Glory, DBM, WAB?
Proposal: Miniature Wargaming
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Other Alcohol sites too specific to make critical mass
Suggest merging Beer, Wine, Whiskey, Mixology, and any other similarly themed proposals in to Alcohol, otherwise these topics will never reach the critical mass which will enable them to flourish.
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How is Puzzling different from Math?
Proposal: Puzzling
I see that most of the proposed questions ask for proofs and algorithms. That sort of questions would be welcome in Math. In fact it's faq mentions "solving mathematical ...
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Could embeded youtube/video be allowed?
For some purposes embeding some animes on an anime discussion zone makes sense.
For example I would like to know what is the original name of the Italian doubled:
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