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We have removed some subcategories from The AnswerBank. If we have removed a much loved subcategory then please let us know however, we think the categories we have removed won't be missed.
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The "Shopping" category is now "Shopping & Style".
The "Family" category is now "Family & Relationships".
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The "Shopping" category is now "Shopping & Style".
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Please note, any content that existed within subcategories still exists on The AnswerBank. All we have done is removed these subcategories from the menu to discourage members from using them.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I see Sport now has been reduced to have just one sub, i.e. Football.
That's a bit prejudiced, there are plenty of other very popular sports.
Football comes tenth in this list which shows the figures for Number of people participating in sport twice a month in England between November 2019 and November 2020, by sport (courtesy statista . com)
Running 7,041,900
Fitness class 6,388,000
Gym session 4,082,900
Exercise machines 3,275,900
Hill and mountain walking 2,909,300
Interval sessions 2,646,200
Weights session 2,388,800
Swimming 2,355,300
Generic fitness training 2,238,000
Football 1,385,700
Golf 806,800
Tennis 696,900
Boxing (includes boxing fitness classes) 610,400
That's a bit prejudiced, there are plenty of other very popular sports.
Football comes tenth in this list which shows the figures for Number of people participating in sport twice a month in England between November 2019 and November 2020, by sport (courtesy statista . com)
Running 7,041,900
Fitness class 6,388,000
Gym session 4,082,900
Exercise machines 3,275,900
Hill and mountain walking 2,909,300
Interval sessions 2,646,200
Weights session 2,388,800
Swimming 2,355,300
Generic fitness training 2,238,000
Football 1,385,700
Golf 806,800
Tennis 696,900
Boxing (includes boxing fitness classes) 610,400
I agree with gromit, "news" should mean anything on a newspaper's or media website's news pages (ie excluding sports) since that's where people get the topics they raise on AB. This may mean Brexit or Ukraine or "OMG Dianne Abbot's said something I don't like". If you try to separate it out from Politics there'll just be endless confusion about where any of those go.
Canary, it's true that there are other popular sports, but they're not popular on AB in terms of people talking about them, so we can't justify a sub-category for them all. If lots of threads suddenly appear about running, for example, then we could make a sub-category for it, but until that happens, most sport-related threads can go in the main sports category.
Lie-in King's Fantasy Football league is the main reason the football subcategory is staying.