Questions tagged [meta]
Meta Stack Exchange (aka MSE) is the governing meta site for all Stack Exchange sites together. Use this tag to ask questions about this very site. In some sense, the [meta] tag is "Meta-Meta Stack Exchange".
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Should we rename the [religious-sites] tag to [religion-sites]?
There's a meta-tag called religious-sites, which is used when asking about the faith-based sites.
In my opinion, religion-sites would be a better name for the tag.
It's hard to explain why the second ...
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There is a problem with the [problem-user] tag
We have the problem-user tag, with excerpt that reads:
This tag should be used in a question about a user who has been causing problems like spamming, unproductive answers, using abusive language and ...
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Remove (again) and prevent creation of the specific-user tag
From the accepted answer at Should any Meta post that calls out a user by name be deleted, not just downvoted? :
There's a reason we always kill off the specific-user tag every time it appears.
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This tag has no [description]; should it be removed?
The description tag here on this site seems to have no clear use. It also has no tag wiki description, hence the title.
Looking through the current uses, I see that many of its uses are covered by the ...
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What are some deferred, ignored, or sunset projects we wish SE would work on to facilitate the community?
We all have our pet projects - things we wish SE would do but which seem to be forever stuck in the backlog pile. Other times, something that's well received gets forgotten in the shuffle.
Inspired by ...
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Do we need the [moderation-strike] tag?
I've seen the moderation-strike tag popping up a few times this past month. I'm wondering, do we really need it?
It doesn't seem to have much long-term utility, though I may turn out to be wrong on ...
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Do we want the "Voting is different on meta sites" content to match the reality?
This is not a duplicate of A Proposal for More Constructive Downvoting on Meta: Express Disagreement by Answering the Question because this is not proposing changing the Meta Stack Exchange users' ...
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Featured questions in FAQ list [duplicate]
I just noticed on the sidebar of Meta that featured questions are displayed twice - once in the "Featured" block and again in the "Frequently Asked" block. The featured questions ...
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Stack Overflow Labs page has inaccuracies
There are several errors on the Stack Overflow Labs webpage.
The page for the question formatting assistant has the MSE logo, not the MSO logo, and Meta is generally not spelled as META by anyone here....
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Should the Misleading Information Policy apply to Meta posts?
A brand-new Misleading Information Policy has just been released that encourages users to flag, and for moderators to delete, posts that they feel are false in a dangerous way. Many of the examples ...
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When posting announcements either post them as QUESTIONS so that people can actually answer or make the entire thread LOCKED if no input is wanted
Recently Stack Exchange posted a new question about a policy on AI generated content.
What is the network policy regarding AI Generated content?
The post was made as a fake question, with the actual ...
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Feature request for close reasoning?
I asked question (on meta) on why a post was closed, because it made no sense, and that post was closed as well?
...a member for 11 years on Server Fault, so been here a long time and this makes no ...
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Why was my question - Why does downvoting mean 'no?' - downvoted? [duplicate]
I asked this question which ended up with a -7 score.
However, I am puzzled. It seems to be a legitimate question. While I understand that feature requests are downvoted to indicate disagreement, I ...
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According to chat, Meta Stack Exchange was born today!
I noticed today this chat room here on Meta Stack Exchange chat domain.
The room has been automatically created yesterday. This is the standard protocol for new sites, e.g. see this transcript, it's ...
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Some sites names shown in Data Explorer Stack Exchange doesn't match the current site name. Is this a bug or a feature?
Volume 1 : TL;DR
Please fix the names of the sites in Data Explorer of Community Building, Music: Practice & Theory, Medical Sciences, Mythology and Folklore, Bricks, Cross Validated and "...
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What tag is used for Stack Exchange rules and their respective enforcement instruments?
Each site has a Tour, a Help Center and meta sites having faq where the site's purpose, workings and features of the Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange system are explained. Also, there is FAQ for ...
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Is MSE an appropriate place to post questions about translations/localization issues for mod related features?
Is MSE an appropriate place to post questions about translations/localization issues for mod related features?
If not, where should I do that?
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What should we do with the tag [experts]?
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experts has 25 14 questions but hasn't tag wiki. The Frequent tab shows 9 4 questions. All the Top Askers have 1 question each. The Top Answerer is Robert Cartaino with 2 answers and a score of ...
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How exactly do people (accidentally) end up here on MSE? [duplicate]
On a daily basis, MSE gets a few (sometimes more than a few) off-topic questions that are posted here by accident. This is when a user intends to post the question on a specific site on the network ...
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Help center page on what questions are on-topic here still says to ask Teams questions on Meta Stack Overflow
In response to the 2022 dissociation of Teams from the main Stack Overflow site, in February 2023, the community there moved to change the scope of their meta to no longer allow Teams questions. All ...
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What is the best (fast but contributive) way to get Strunk & White badge?
As far as know, less than 200 people have a Strunk & White badge here on Meta.
Why there's so few people eligible for this?
Feature-request, is editing 80 posts too hard? Can we reduce this to ...
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The future role of Stack Exchange vs. emerging AIs [closed]
This post is intended as a discussion on the existence of and future use of the different Stack Exchange communities, including but not exclusively Stack Overflow.
With the emergence and popularity of ...
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Do users pay attention to account's age? [closed]
I am currently in the process of writing a paper about the discourse within Stack Overflow. I am focusing on the concept of seniority within the site.
My question for the site users is: Do you pay any ...
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Ticket smash for [status-review] tag: Part Deux
The Problem
I hate backlogs. It is a mystery to me that I’ve worked in tech for over a decade because there is no such thing as a week where you get to check “done” on every Jira task assigned to you. ...
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The status-deferred tag appears to have gotten a new meaning, can it please be explained?
In the past, the status-deferred was used to indicate that the bug or request has merit, but won't be done/fixed in the near future, or maybe not at all.
Then staff added the deferred tag to many bugs ...
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Why does the 'access review queues' privilege on MSE require more rep than SO? [duplicate]
I went through the privileges pages on Meta Stack Exchange and Stack Overflow, and the 'access review queues' privilege requires a lot more rep than SO (2K for MSE, 500 for SO.)
Is this because MSE is ...
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Remove tag badges or dupehammer on moderator-only tags [duplicate]
Many people have tag badges or the dupehammer for moderator-only tags. I think this is a problem since it defeats the whole point of being an "expert" in a tag, since these tags only tell ...
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Should ChatGPT be banned on MSE itself?
I’m NOT suggesting a network wide ban - that already has a separate post.
I recently noticed that a user posted a ChatGPT generated answer that totally failed to answer the question that was asked (...
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Can I really discuss the validity of closure of my question here?
As per the official help center page on reopening questions, it states
If you're simply unsure about the validity of the closure, the best place to ask is on the community's meta site. Asking in the ...
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Is it allowed to ask a question about Data on the Meta site? [closed]
To win a hat I have to ask a question or post an answer with a Data tag. Now do I not participate in any site where that tag is useful, so I have a bit of a handicap.
I guess I will not be the only ...
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Loading the Community user's "All actions" subtab here on Meta.SE leads to a server error
Trying to access the Community user's list of actions here results in the "Oops! Something Bad Happened!" server error page. I get to this link by going to its user profile, going to the ...
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"Asking a good question" starter sentence sounds off
This is what the popup says when you attempt to ask your first question here on Meta Stack Exchange:
Asking a good question
This is NOT Stack Overflow - Ask your question on Stack Overflow
What is ...
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Merge the [anonymous] and [anonymous-visitors] tags
anonymous and anonymous-visitors seem synonymous. Let's merge them?
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We talk a lot about offensive usernames
Today we had the following question posted:
What is SE policy regarding potentially offensive screen names?
The specific user mentioned had already been taken care of, but the question is asking about ...
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How can I ask for clarification about the current quarter escalation guidelines for old feature requests about Ask a Question form / [quality-filter]?
I have several things that I would like to escalate to staff but I'm not sure which of them meet the guidelines stated in What posts should be escalated to staff using [status-review], and how do I ...
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Should "Why 'What Stack Overflow is Not' was deleted" be historically locked?
A long time ago, Shog9 deleted a popularly-linked question here. He then made another post, Why "What Stack Overflow is Not" was deleted, to explain his reasons for deleting the question ...
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The [time] has come to get rid of this tag
I think it is high time we get rid of the time tag altogether.
It currently has 72 questions which cover a wide variety of topics, including:
The time it takes for something to end up in a queue
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Please add the link of post related to appointment of moderator in https://meta.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators
In users?tab=moderators page of non-MSE sites, there are links to respective election page for each moderator (like this).
But, in MSE, just the appointment date is mentioned:
Please add the link of ...
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When were moderators appointed in MSE for the first time? Is it December 2013 or November 2018?
If we look at https://meta.stackexchange.com/users?tab=moderators, this is shown:
According to this post, they were appointed for the first time on November 21, 2018. But, ChrisF's appointment date ...
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Sunsets are often memorable - could we have a tag for deprecated features?
Inspired by a comment here - while it isn't something that common, there's often posts about features we no longer have. While SO has more of these - teams 1.0 came to mind, Jobs and Developer ...
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What's the difference between [easter-eggs] and [hidden-features]?
I just learned that Meta Stack Exchange has a tag hidden-features and a tag easter-eggs, and apparently at least one site regular sees sufficient difference between these tags to replace one by the ...
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Should question scores count toward tag-badges on Meta sites?
Throughout the Stack Exchange network, tag-badges are earned by receiving upvotes on answers to questions with the relevant tags. This is (IMHO) the way it should be for the main sites – each of those ...
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What kinds of questions is this tag [welcoming]?
There is a tag named welcoming with 21 questions. Its excerpt says:
For question about the Welcome Wagon, started at 2018.
Indeed, when sorting by Newest, older questions with the tag seem to mostly ...
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Should this question, which reports a bug that has the same root cause as another bug but manifests in a different place, be closed as a duplicate?
This bug report, which reports that clicking the "Share" button before the page fully loads, causes the page to refresh because the button is a link is to a redirect to the same page, which ...
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Should the [registration] and [sign-up] tags be merged, and if so, what should be the canonical tag?
Here on this site, we have two tags registration and sign-up, which mean essentially the same thing: registering (signing up) for an account on any site on the network.
Looking at the uses for each ...
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How do I flag a post that is not a question?
How do I flag a post that is not a question here on Meta Stack Exchange?
Examples:
Formatting Sandbox
Announcing the Stacks Editor Beta release!
Please raise the tag creation reputation threshold on ...
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How can I determine the validity of answers on this site, meta.stackexchange.com?
I'm having some trouble judging the validity of some answers on Meta Stack Exchange; that is, gauging whether an answer should be interpreted as official policy or not.
For example, let's say somebody ...
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Old account of new staff member is showing up as a moderator here on Meta
As another result of an account merge gone wrong, and similar to Who is Samuel Ordonez and why are they a moderator here?, the old account of new staff member @Emerson is showing up as a ♦ moderator ...
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Is this duplicate closure, of a question asking to discuss the content of an answer, correct?
I just asked What can I do if I have a feature idea that was already requested, but the author removed the suggestion in the meantime? here a few hours ago. That is a discussion regarding how to ...
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What can I do if I have a feature idea that was already requested, but the author removed the suggestion in the meantime? [duplicate]
I've come up with a feature suggestion for the Stack Exchange engine. After searching the site to ensure my suggestion wasn't already requested, I found an existing post requesting the same thing. The ...