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Let's get critical: May 2013 Site Self-Evaluation
We all love Physical Fitness Stack Exchange, but there is a whole world of people out there who need answers to their questions and don't even know that this site exists. When they arrive from Google, ...
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Promoting site on MOOC
Currently, it seems like there are too few questions asked on the site
So it seems like the site should be promoted (unless all that can be asked has been answered).
Given the rising popularity of ...
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Call for blog post volunteer: Why BMI is unreliable
I noticed a comment today by BackInShapeBuddy that body mass index (BMI) is not a reliable measurement of someone's physical fitness level. I've been seeing comments like that here and there that all ...
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Shall we create a new tag in our site?
Here is a question about skiing?
How would it be to create a new tag on Skiing?
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Is our sites title justified?
Wikipedia on Physical Fitness:
Physical fitness comprises two related concepts: general fitness (a state of health and well-being), and specific fitness (a task-oriented definition based on the ...
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How to treat Links in Spam?
We had some nice Spammers around, that gave pretty decent answers, but always included a spam link at the end.
After some posts, I started invalidating the links, either by removing them or by ...
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Tag [Aerobic] is ambiguous
I think we should make the ambiguous tag aerobic more clear as it might be used for
aerobics describing the sport.
aerobic-exercise describing all exercises also known as cardio
The last point ...
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How should we treat greetings and salutations?
This question is based on: Should 'Hi', 'thanks,' taglines, and salutations be removed from posts?
Here are examples at this site:
http://fitness.stackexchange.com/a/11938/4644
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Is this an appropriate forum to ask questions about personal health?
E.g. body cleanliness, birthing/pre-natal, sex, child health, etc.
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Deleted answer for “commercial” response
I sent this question about barefoot running to a friend at work - mostly because we've both been transitioning to "five-fingered" type running this past year. (naturally, I also wanted to promote the ...
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Are questions on Exercise Physiology on topic here?
Are questions based on Human Exercise Physiology on topic here, and if so, is expanding knowledge on exercise physiology a sufficient practical reason for asking, or not?
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What constitutes shopping questions?
I recently stumbled across this question:
What should I look for in a jump rope?, which was given 2 up-votes and reasonable answers.
Should this be closed as a shopping question?
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Are questions about choosing specific martial arts disciplines for fitness purposes in scope?
Are questions about choosing specific martial arts disciplines for fitness purposes in scope?
E.g. choosing one for a young child to improve hand-eye coordination and cardio fitness, with minimal ...
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Are people mis-interpreting the FAQ?
The FAQ currently contains the clause:
practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face
which people are using on this site to mark theoretical questions as off-topic. For ...
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Meta Tag: [high-intensity]
I just did some retagging and stumbled over high-intensity. It is a meta tag and should be removed:
The reason meta-tags are a problem is that they do not describe the content of the question. ...
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Should the FAQ be amended to address drug use?
What to do with dangerous answers?
From this question, a topic for discussion. A few points that I can see that would be problematic:
Not illegal everywhere - Examples are marijuana and a few other ...
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What to do with dangerous answers?
Will EPO increase my running ability?
The "accepted" answer in this question is what I'm looking at, I flagged it for a moderator's attention, but I wanted to know the general opinion of answers like ...
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Advertise Chat on Front Page
On some other StackExchange sites there is a small box to display chat status.
We have this status box on meta, but on the main site it seems to be missing.
Or as @Grohlier put it on chat.
Once ...
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Tag [weight] ambiguous
I just checked some tags and found weight to be pretty popular but yet very ambiguous.
It is used in the context of (and in most cases combined with):
weight-gain
weight-loss
bodyweight
weights (or ...
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How to deal with personal recommendations?
We get a lot of questions where people post their training plan and diet and want us to improve it. Examples are:
How can I improve my training program to become leaner and increase strength?
How to ...
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Is it OK to ask questions about the economics of gym equipment? If not, where?
Clearly if the question is about exerise,
Questions about Fitness Equipment
it is on-topic. My question:
Why are kettlebells so expensive?
was considered off-topic (and that's OK!) because I ...
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What’s the “elevator pitch” for our site?
Citing from The 7 Essential Meta Questions of Every Beta:
5. What’s the “elevator pitch” for our site?
Imagine you’ve just gotten on an elevator with a friendly stranger. You have precisely ...
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Why has the 'Exercises for a programmer' question never been closed?
Exercises for a programmer sitting by the PC all day
Why has this question never been closed?
It is far too broad, highly unspecific, there is no way to reasonably answer this question. It has some ...
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Tags [soreness] [muscle-soreness] [doms] are quite the same
muscle-soreness(26 tagged), soreness (6) and doms (3) are pretty all about the same thing.
There are two questions under soreness that don't seem to be directly related to muscles. The others could ...
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When has enough research been done?
The question "How can you do a BMI test?" brought me to the question how we – here on fitness.SE – define the minimal research effort a user should do before asking a question on this site.
I for ...
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Pluralize [pull-up] and [chin-up] tag?
pull-up is one of the few tags that is singular without a good reason.
Contrary we have most others in plural.
Comparable tags like sit-ups and push-ups are plural.
Unrelated tags like abdominals ...
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Do we identify equipment or exercises?
I know from other StackExchange sites, that please identify this questions are unwanted. The most cited reasons are from the Let's Play the Guessing Game blog entry.
You should only ask ...
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Do you want hats?
EDIT: Please provide feedback on the Winter Bash over on Meta Stack Overflow:
What do you think of Winter Bash?
If you participated in Arqade, you may have noticed the Holiday 2011 Hat Dash last ...
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It is [cold] outside so I caught a [cold]
There is cold out there and it is currently in dual use.
cold as in it's cold outside or cold food.
cold as in common cold.
What to do?
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Front page flooding due mass edits
Fitness.SE isn't as active as other sites where this problem might not be as recognizable as it is here.
Whenever mass edits are necessary, retagging for example, new questions get pushed off the ...
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What's the difference between the [games] and [video-games] tags?
Both the tags games and video-games seem to be used solely for video games right now, and neither tag has a description.
There was some previous discussion in How should fitness games be tagged?, but ...
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Downvoting bad answers from one time users
I think we have a lot of bad answer on this site that I would downvote. Not because I disagree with them, thats no reason for me personally to downvote, but they are inherently bad. For example ...
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Have edit privileges changed?
Another user edited this question. I saw a spiffy new "Edit (1)" link instead of just "Edit", clicked it, reviewed that user's edits, and approved them.
But instead of the edits being approved, and ...
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Deleted user's name still shows up in “deleted by” message
Answer http://fitness.stackexchange.com/a/7314/1771 was written and deleted by the same user. The "answered by" stamp now says "user usernumber", but "deleted by user name> Jul 17 at 16:43" persists. ...
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Better fitness through link integration
Edit reviewers might have already seen it.
At the moment I am going through some questions that have bare links them.
check this marklar on how to marklar: http://example.com/marklar/marklar.html
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Shopping recommendation ban doesn't apply to HRMs
The reason for banning shopping recommendations is that the recommendation might become obsolete. There aren't any HRMs going off the market. All the ones that I see for sale today were available 5 ...
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Rename tag burn-fat?
I propose to rename the tag burn-fat to fatburning it just sounds odd to me.
I am not sure if there are any naming rules for verbs on StackExchange sites, but it would come in line with tags like ...
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Merge jogging with running
I propose to merge jogging with running.
Although jogging is mostly talking about running at a slower pace there is no real difference between them. I think making jogging a synonym of running would ...
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Burninate exercise tag
The question has been asked before, but as the scope of the FAQ changed I am proposing to remove exercise again.
Every question on fitness.SE could be tagged with exercise as the FAQ states that ...
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Questions Needing Edits
There are a couple questions needing edits to line them up with the scope defined within the FAQ. The questions here are some good questions that have been flagged as off-topic, and it would be nice ...
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Pseudo exercise questions
I was on a small flagging run, checking for older pure nutrition based questions which are off topic now since the changes to the FAQ.
There were a few, good questions with some really good answers, ...
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Physical Fitness Self-Evaluation: Let's Get Critical! [closed]
You love your site and we love your site, but there is a whole world of people out there who might not even know it exists. When they do find it, their first impression will either scare them away or ...
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Blog favicon should get updated
Went to the blog and happened to notice that the icon my browser got is the old "sketchy" FN icon. Should be updated to match the icon the site has now. At the very least, should be "PF", not "FN".
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I can no longer see upvote/downvote buttons or accept answer - any idea why? [closed]
For some reason when I logged in today I no longer see the ablity to upvote / downvote or accept an answer. I've tried two browsers (FireFox/Chrome) and even tried clearing cache for the last week in ...
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Can we/should we be monitoring obviously poor planning?
I'm referring to this question: Marathon - How to train for a marathon in 12 weeks?
It is in all likelihood, a recipe for disaster/injury. The poster accepted a very risky plan as an answer, what is ...
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How to give feedback on workout routines?
What is the best way of giving feedback on workout routines? In most cases, there is no feedback at all from the OP to AP (Answer Post). In some cases, there is a comment in the answer. Given that ...
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Goals should be mandatory for questions about picking routines/exercises
We should amend the FAQ to strongly recommend or gently demand that people asking about routines or picking exercises explicitly state their goals. In fact, it's probably a good requirement for nearly ...
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So we have an assumed experience level now?
This recent pull up grip question is getting a lot of comments suggesting it's somehow inappropriate to ask what muscles each exercise targets because he won't know what those muscles are. Is there ...
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Sleep is a valid fitness topic
I strongly disagree with this question being closed. Is it good to listen to very relaxing music right before sleep?
You don't make fitness gains while you exercise, you make your gains while ...
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A useful userscript for uploading images
One of our fellow SE-mods created a nice little userscript that gives you some additional options when uploading images.
When you upload an image using the SE uploading dialog, it gets
uploaded ...
