Linked Questions
20 questions linked to/from Meta sites' front pages should not hide questions with very low scores
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What is the threshold for hiding questions on the main page of main sites, local metas, and MSE? [duplicate]
I've looked around at various questions, but I haven't found a clear place where this is documented.
When posts reach a certain (low) score, a post will stop showing up on the main page of whatever ...
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The Q1 2020 Community Roadmap is on the Blog
I just posted to our blog about our First Quarter Community Roadmap for 2020. Here's a preview of what the roadmap looks for this quarter:
Please see the post for details on the different themes of ...
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How can Meta be made more conducive to discussions?
Disclaimer: This post is quite lenghty. To prevent out of context interpretations I kindly request either reading it in its entirety or not reading it at all. Thank you.
Why am I writing this?
I've ...
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Improve Not a Real Question close reason message
When closing a question as Not a Real Question (NARQ) it looks as follows:
Closing questions is often badly received by the OP, which isn't that surprising really. Let's try to analyze how they could ...
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Do downvotes on Meta truly mean something different?
It is often said that voting on Meta means something different than voting on regular sites. Upvotes mean "I agree", and downvotes mean "I disagree".
However, I submit that this is not the case. ...
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What happens to questions closed as blatantly off-topic?
The following close reason appears on every single Stack Exchange site when you're voting/flagging to close a question as off-topic:
Blatantly off-topic (this question has nothing to do with [...
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How many downvotes to push an active question off the "active" list?
I just noticed that the question: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/117107/do-you-also-have-difficulty-reaching-your-rep-quota-during-christmas doesn't appear in the "active" list. If this ...
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Downvoting off-topic MSE posts is counterproductive
Several times a day, people make clearly off-topic posts on MSE. And I've noticed something of a trend with these posts.
Obviously, people vote-to-close them as off-topic. But they also get downvoted ...
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Give feature requests some protection for 48 hours
From time to time, people complain that unpopular suggestions on Meta get effectively censored by downvoting: questions with a net score under -7 vanish from the front page. Most recently Nicol Bolas: ...
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How does Stack Overflow determine for how long to keep a question in the main page?
I am guessing this has to do with the amount of views, answers, upvotes and time it was posted but is there a place where I can get a more detailed explanation of this?
Also I have seen questions ...
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How do I see all newest questions (even negatively voted ones) with the new navigation?
I've added the bug tag to this because it appears that you can't display these questions without using search. This is bad for several reasons:
Spam posts disappear from the questions list but can't ...
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Why are there two featured lists?
There are two featured lists with the same URL, but different results:
Go to http://meta.stackoverflow.com
Click on "Questions"
Click on "featured"
You'll see one list with the URL https://meta....
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Does downvoting a question help "hide" it? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How many downvotes to push an active question off the “active” list?
The question Find and replace first space in a string, while very much a question where the OP ...
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Where did my newly posted question go?
I just posted What algorithm is used to display the Badges multipliers on the user profile? question and it was shown there on the main page i.e. "newest" section and "recently active" section.
But, ...
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These numbers are too crowded! Can we give them some breathing room? [duplicate]
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Slight rendering bug in Chrome (Linux) - View count and title overlap
I recently observed the following on the home page of Meta:
(Emphasis mine)
As you can see, the numbers ...
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