Questions tagged [per-site-meta]
Questions about the meta site that every Stack Exchange site has (also called 'child metas').
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Is it intentional that the question titles on per-site metas are now orange?
Looks like this again Some per-site-metas are orange - again? except it is the link styling and not the other parts of the page.
Sites I visited with the issue: ELL, EL&U, The Workplace.
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Hide the reputation of requester and posters in feature-request tagged posts, to add more guaranties of balanced advice
The more I look at Stack Exchange Meta or Stack Overflow Meta, the more I see the effects of the requester's reputation (and posters' ones) on them.
Do you have a lot of gold medals and reputation? ...
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Which site in the Stack Exchange network has the highest ratio of meta-traffic to main-site-traffic?
Which site in the Stack Exchange network has the highest and lowest traffic on its meta site relative to its main site?
At first I was thinking that Stack Overflow had the highest ratio, as its meta ...
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Link to parent site is not HTTPS in the sidebar/dropdown "Step 1: Draft your question" on any per-site Meta
When asking a question here on Meta SE, the sidebar titled "Step 1: Draft your question" (which appears as a dropdown menu on mobile in the responsive design) has the following text:
Is ...
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Will we get hats for fulfilling hat requirements on per-site-metas?
Will we be able to get hats from per-site-metas (not sure that's the right wording)?
Let's say I have two comments with 5+ score on Meta Stack Overflow. Would I get Starfish?
List of possible hats:
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Can the threshold to see vote counts on Meta be lowered? [duplicate]
I did find this question, but it is from over ten years ago, so I'd like to revisit it
This answer explains why there is a minimum requirement (tl;dr the query is expensive). That makes sense, ...
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Can't sign up for philosophy.meta.stackexchange.com
I've already signed up for philosophy.stackexchange.com and that works. I feel the meta site would be more fitting for my question though.
From what I see there are three ways of signing up. Through ...
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Rename "Feedback" to "Meta" in footer
This post might not be relevant to MSE, but it is relevant to sites in the network.
The Feedback link in the footer directs us to child meta. I am glad about this. But, I feel the word "Feedback&...
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TLS for meta.*.stackexchange.com, again
When Stack Exchange transitioned to HTTPS, meta.*.stackexchange.com subdomains were changed to *.meta.stackexchange.com subdomains.
The old meta.* subdomains now redirect to the new *.meta subdomains.
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Do some beta meta sites have solid-black favicons? Is this a bug?
Following some links and opening a bunch of meta posts from different per-site metas at the same time, I noticed an odd discrepancy in the icons:
The Economics meta icon seems to be solid black, ...
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Will we get moderation statistics published on all sites for 2021?
Since 2018, at the beginning of every new year, the team has posted annual moderation statistics on all meta sites on the network. These included a full table of how many of which moderation actions ...
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Associated users endpoint gives empty response for meta users
The /users/{ids}/associated endpoint of the Stack Exchange API has the option to set ?types=meta_site to get the child meta users of a network account. But when I try it now, I get an empty response ...
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Is Stack Exchange affected by Facebook's application for a trademark on "Meta" for Q&A?
Facebook the company (aka Meta Platforms Inc.) has filed a trademark application for the wordmark "Meta" on over a thousand kinds of goods and services, including:
Downloadable software ...
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Behaviour of 'Featured on Meta' list [duplicate]
I just added the featured tag to this post on the Arts & Crafts Meta, but it doesn't show up in the 'Featured on Meta' box on the main site.
Is this normal behaviour?
Is there a kind of ...
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Bottom banner not showing link to meta [duplicate]
On my phone I get in the bottom a link to the meta page of the website
On my desktop (Ubuntu with Firefox) I do not get this link.
This makes it more difficult to navigate. Do I miss something, or is ...
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Why have I received eight yearling badges for the same site today?
Note this is not Why am I getting so many "yearling" badges today? as these are all in the same site.
I'm currently at 8 badges by my count.
These are all for Information Security Meta.
Any ...
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Why can't I find the Community user on child meta sites? [duplicate]
Searching for "Community" on /users of a child meta site returns no matches regardless of which tab is selected:
In order to find the Community user's profile, I have to look for it on /...
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Should poor grammar be fixed in a meta post where the OP is asking if (their) poor grammar is okay for the main site?
On a Stack Exchange site where users must post in English, a user who said their native language wasn't English asked on its meta site whether having poor grammar should stop them from posting (on the ...
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Why does the "feedback" link at the bottom of a Stack Exchange site go to that site's Meta?
Or, in other words, why is the link to Meta called "feedback" and not "Meta"?
For every SE site I've looked at on my Android phone in "full site" mode, there is a link ...
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Add an option for mods and staff to pin a certain answer to the top on meta sites
Now that accepted answers are in the process of being unpinned, and that's likely to happen on meta sites too, we probably need another way to pin certain answers to the top. This will go in line with ...
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Some per-site-metas are orange - again?
Two designed sites I checked have their per-site meta orange again:
However, Literature's meta is not:
Looks like a regression of Why did all sites turn orange? - as far as I can tell with spot-...
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Inconsistent Identicon between main and meta sites
I was just browsing CGCC, and I went over to the meta, and noticed something strange: That's not the indenticon I've come to recognize. Somehow, my identicon changed sometime in the last day or two, ...
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Include meta reputation in the Users table for meta sites
The table Users returns the same number as reputation if a query is run on the meta site and on the main site. Maybe it would make more sense to user "meta reputation" from meta if the query ...
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Unsuspend link on meta is broken
There is a broken markdown link when you click the "Mod" link on a user's meta profile:
The one for "Contact user privately" works fine:
Note that the latter links to https://...
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Do post-bans work the same way on all per-site metas?
All regular Stack Exchange sites (including Meta Stack Exchange) have automatic question and answer bans. If a user posts enough poorly received content, they get banned from asking and/or answering.
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Maximizing visibility when your question works on two metas but you have to choose one?
I'm trying to decide which of two sites is better for a specific question, and so, before deciding, I'd like to first ask about that question on those sites' metas to find out where it's more on topic....
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Featured on Meta is not showing [featured] meta articles
If you go to Code Golf SE main, the only post that is listed on Featured on Meta is the one featured on Mother Meta. But the site actually has two more featured posts on its own meta. They were ...
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Inconsistencies in tag colours on some meta sites
On a few places on some child meta sites, the "other" tags (that is, ones like chat, not the moderator-only ones like status-review, and not the required ones like bug), are blue, while in ...
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How necessary are the child meta sites? [duplicate]
Can they all be amalgamated into the main site with their own tags?
The reasons I can think of that this is a good idea are:
There are a lot of questions on the child meta sites that are duplicates ...
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Resolving the issue with closing or using red tag?
What's the correct approach to resolve old questions tagged with bug which are no longer reproducible?
Should they be closed with the reason:
The problem described here can no longer be reproduced. ...
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Cookie customization popup doesn't appear on per-site Metas
I went to Meta AU (with a cleared cache and cookies) in search of a question, but the new cookie customization notice didn't come out. It appears when you visit the main site, but not on per-site ...
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How many meta websites exist in the Stack Exchange network?
I wonder how many meta websites exist in the Stack Exchange network?
The list of 176 sites show only Meta Stack Exchange, but I know we also have Meta Stack Overflow, for example.
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All the "year in moderation" Meta questions link to a search on the main (not Meta) sites for previous "year in moderation" questions
The title covers the question - the "2020: a year in moderation" posts that JNat ♦ has kindly posted all follow a template which appears to be of the form:
As we say goodbye to the old year ...
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Does network-wide search for tags work only with is:q?
I saw a discussion on one per-site meta today and I wanted to check whether something similar was discussed on some other meta sites. Since tags on various metas often have similar names, it seemed ...
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Is it possible to earn the Wa-Boushi hat for an answer on a meta site?
I am just wondering if it's possible to earn the Wa-Boushi hat on Meta Stack Overflow.
I have this answer, it has 36 upvotes (lol hoping for more), but I am wondering if/when I get 40 upvotes, will I ...
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Sometimes you can't view hat details
The title says it all. Steps to reproduce:
Click on a user with any hat. It needs to be from a per-site-meta; it's no-repro here.
When in their profile, click on their hat on their profile picture.
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Can't edit questions on meta posts; unable to gain reputation on them [duplicate]
I wanted to edit this question's title which is on Mathematics Meta Stack Exchange because it did not have anything to do with the question itself. However, I could not edit it. When I tried to edit ...
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Time to allow suggested edits on per site metas? [duplicate]
So I was just answering a question on Ask Ubuntu meta about code formatting and it was brought to my attention that users under 2k cannot even click the edit button to view the formatting.
Looking ...
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Why is there no dark mode for the per-site metas of sites with dark modes?
Recently, dark mode was rolled out for international SO sites: Are there any plans to roll out Dark Mode to non-English Stack Overflow sites? But only for main sites.
What's the reason why dark mode ...
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Why does Meta get more votes than Main? [closed]
I usually take a look at certain questions on both Stack Overflow and Mathematics Stack Exchange, and what's interesting is the vote counts. They usually have around 0 - 2 votes. Now I go to meta, I ...
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Some meta sites insist that I take the main sites' tours, but don't recognize that I already have [duplicate]
On three sites:
User Ray Butterworth - Music Fans Meta Stack Exchange
User Ray Butterworth - Operations Research Meta Stack Exchange
User Ray Butterworth - Physics Meta Stack Exchange
my badges ...
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Will yearly moderation statistics be published on all sites this year, and future years?
For the last couple years, at the beginning of every new year, Stack Exchange has posted annual moderation statistics on all meta sites in the network. These posts include a full table on how many of ...
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Build a per-site meta for Meta Stack Exchange
There are some posts about complaints from users of moderator/user actions on their posts.
I think a per-site meta is needed here for this kind of problems; because this is a place for people to ask ...
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Lowered reputation threshold for meta participation on some sites is not working
According to What are the reputation requirements for privileges on sites, and how do they differ per site?, some sites have a lowered reputation (e.g. 1-rep) threshold for participating in meta:
Ask ...
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Why are questions only about one site in the network considered off-topic here?
This site seems to have a rule that "questions that are only about one site should be asked on the site's own meta", and such questions are nearly always marked "off-topic" here. ...
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Special tags not recognized by tag suggestion box if they contain diacritics or non-Latin characters
When asking a question on Stack Overflow Meta en español or on Stack Overflow на русском Meta, the tag suggestion box doesn't seem to recognize required tags with diacritics or non-Latin characters; ...
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Are cross-site duplicate Meta questions subjected to closure?
The title of my question is quite self-explanatory. Does asking a duplicate question on two or three different Meta sites actually subject them being labelled duplicate and closed by reputed users of ...
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Are votes preserved on meta sites when an active user is deleted?
Recently on one of my SE sites, a user who was a highly active voter (over 1000 votes on each of main and meta) deleted their account. As expected, there was no accompanying loss of rep for other ...
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Tag descriptions on meta not showing even though they're present [duplicate]
On the Arts & Crafts Meta website tags page, some of the tag descriptions don't show up within their frames even though they are present:
As you can see, the support tag has a description, but it'...
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How to get the Autobiographer badge in Area 51-discussion / Area 51 meta
I signed up on Area 51 and filled out my profile there to get the Autobiographer badge, which also worked. It was only later that I came across the Area 51 Discussion Zone (Area 51-discussion) and had ...
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