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23 questions linked to/from Sudden increase in off-topic posts on MSE
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Should we have a tag for questions involving new users asking blatantly off-topic questions here on MSE?
We all know about the persistent problem of new users posting blatantly off-topic questions here on Meta Stack Exchange for many reasons. This problem dates back to at least 2013, and happens often ...
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Automatically raise the rep limit for posting to MSE to 2 when a meta post gets featured
I just noticed that there's a post tagged with featured on Meta Stack Exchange when browsing Stack Overflow:
The last time this happened, users from SO forgot that they're not on SO and asked ...
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Does the new unified design theme result in more off-topic questions where lost users asked on the wrong site?
This is partially a request for opinion, and partially a request for statistics.
For a very long time, Meta Stack Exchange has suffered from a problem where a lot of users ask blatantly off-topic ...
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Cross-posts, egregiously off-topic questions and the vanishing delete link
Having been a participant on Programmers for quite some time now, I am no stranger to new users and drive-by posters. Despite Programmers' reputation as "the least understood site on the network," ...
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I asked a programming question on Meta.SE and it got negatively received. What should I do?
I recently discovered Meta Stack Exchange and asked a programming question on it. Subsequently, it got (down|delete|close) voted for this reason:
This question does not appear to be about the ...
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Feature to detect if a question is about programming and thus off-topic
What if we had some sort of warning that users' questions seem off-topic, especially on MSE? It seems to me that a large majority of the blatantly off-topic questions here should be on Stack Overflow. ...
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Can you do a better job of informing new meta users of the MSE M-child difference?
... and perhaps Meta in general.
I just had a question quickly and heavily down-voted on MSE. In the comments it was pointed out that the question was more relevant to SO than SE generally (and thus ...
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Should we update the TOS post with a banner to point clueless users at SO for their programming questions?
Ever since the TOS update, Meta Stack Exchange keeps getting flooded by ridiculous questions (mostly about general programming and code, but occasionally for other sites than SO) whenever the ...
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