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Sports

Site name: Sports

Sports

Description

A site for practitioners, organizers and fans of sports.

Scope and topics

The scope is intentionally kept broad in the initial stages. If activity picks up and there is an active community, the scope can be reduced or re-defined as needed.

On-topic
Sport rules and practicing, training advice, officiating sport events, sport equipment, sport results and statistics, sport fan questions regarding performance, attendance or statistics of professional athletes/teams, sport history, sport ethics, player trading rules, event participation rules.

Sports include any athletic activity on any level - professional or amateur - in the normal everyday definition of the term. Including but not limited to motor sports, animal sports, e-sports.

Off-topic
Identification questions of players/teams/items etc. Hypothetical or opinion-based questions like trading speculation, who would win or other subjective questions that can't be answered with facts.

Overlaps

The biggest overlap is with Outdoors, where a lot of questions will simply be on-topic at both sites. The main difference might be that sports is generally something that people compete in, which is not a requirement for activities posted at Outdoors. Applying common sense will probably get us quite far.

Just as an example of how overlaps may clash: shooting sports would generally be on-topic at both sites. Shooting at indoor ranges would be on-topic here but off-topic at Outdoors. Hunting (or fishing etc) competitions would be far more suitable for Outdoors than for Sports. Hunting as a hobby or animal behavior questions would be entirely off-topic here, but perfectly on-topic at Outdoors.

There may be some minor overlaps with the following:

  • Communities - organizing sports leagues and clubs
  • Cooking - training food/diets
  • Photography & Video - capturing sports on camera
  • Physics - calculating how bodies move according to the laws of physics
  • Shopping - questions about equipment/gear, resources (like books or classes), sports paraphenelia, sports event tickets
  • Video Games - e-sports, competitive multiplayer, speedrunning

In the rare case where that happens, we should direct the question to the more appropriate site.

Community/target audience

Any athlete, amateur and experienced officials, referees, umpires, sports enthusiasts and fans.

Additional features

There could potentially be a need for separate categories in the future for things like sports fan questions or equipment recommendations.

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Name it right
Olin Lathrop‭ wrote 7 months ago

Please let's not use "cutesy" names for sites like SE was infested with. The site name is the one thing that's outward-facing. It's more than just a handle to identify the site with. It's the one chance for a first impression and short explanation of what the site is about. Don't waste it on something that only makes sense after you learn the one thing the title isn't telling you.

These stupid cutesy names are rather off-putting. They basically say "We've got a secret, and you're not in on it." The first impression is therefore "What a bunch of twits!". That's not conducive to getting people to check out the site.

Lundin‭ wrote 6 months ago

"Sports" is a pretty good name and I thought that was what was proposed. It is a quite broad title suggesting a broad scope, but unambiguous.

Olin Lathrop‭ wrote 6 months ago

@Lundin: The proposal specifically says "Name: Scoreboard Solutions". That's what I was objecting to. I agree, "Sports" would be a good name.