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Why do we use [bonus-reputation] instead of [association-bonus]? Let's not!

Everyone calls it the "association bonus". Is there a historical reason for this? Can we please at least synonymize the two or (preferably for me) make association-bonus the master tag? On our FAQ ...
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Should we bury [Money-Making]?

The money-making tag seems to be a meta tag - it doesn't seem useful, and just adds noise. SE's financial plans are one of the few things the average user's likely to not have a say in, and I'm sure ...
Journeyman Geek's user avatar
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Tag length increase from 25 to 35 characters was not actually done here on MSE

The tag character limit was supposedly increased from 25 to 35 characters "on all sites". However, here on MSE, the tag length increase was not actually implemented. As would be expected, you get an ...
Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog's user avatar
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1 answer
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Is the Meta SE FAQ sidebar broken?

In the sidebar, under FAQ/"Frequently Asked" (and not the "Featured on Meta" section), the link to the featured post What criteria should we use to determine which review queue indicator a site will ...
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I can't sign up for Meta newsletter

For the past two days I have been trying to sign up for the Meta newsletter from the box on the Meta Stack Exchange site. I get this error every time. Please note that signing up from the newsletter ...
hat's user avatar
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Edit the MSE help page about automatic deletion to remove a criterion that is not enabled here

The help page here on MSE about the roomba says that abandoned questions older than 365 days are deleted in certain cases as RemoveAbandonedQuestions. While this is true on main Q&A sites, as per ...
Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog's user avatar
12 votes
1 answer
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Search just broke

Searching currently isn't possible on Meta Stack Exchange. It worked a few minutes ago and all other sites seem to still work. I get directed to this link: https://meta.stackexchange.com/error?...
Fabian Röling's user avatar
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Related questions without titles [duplicate]

This question has some interesting links under Related questions: the links don't have titles. A little investigation shows that's not surprising; they link to answers instead of questions, and those ...
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Update the help center to indicate Stack Overflow Careers questions are off-topic

Currently the What topics can I ask about here? page on Meta Stack Exchange says: If your question is about: Stack Overflow Careers (Employers). Questions for Stack Overflow Jobs should go to Stack ...
Cai's user avatar
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6 votes
2 answers
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Why is there transparent text over the logo here on Meta?

When selecting something on a page, I noticed this oddity: (to reprodce press CTRL+A) On closer inspection, I saw there's indeed the text "Meta Stack Exchange" inside the logo placeholder, with ...
Shadow Wizard's user avatar
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Why can't I click on META when using the latest version of Chrome on Win10?

On every other site on Stack Exchange I can click on the site's title and be taken directly to the questions... Except Meta.stackexchange.com Here I actually have to click on the word "Questions" ...
Rory Alsop's user avatar
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Can we reorder the Close reasons here on MSE?

I'm very much of the opinion that the most commonly used selections in any list should be the most prominent and fastest / easiest to select. Somewhat related to Fitts's Law. Now, this is an ...
JonW's user avatar
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Typo in Help Center > Our model > What is meta?

There is a typo (marked bold) on the "What is "meta"? How does it work?" page of Meta Stack Exchange in the very first sentence: Meta Stack Exchange is the part of the site where users discuss the ...
Lukas Rotter's user avatar
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1 answer
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Image button in Help does not match button in editor

On the Help page for post formatting on Meta Stack Exchange, there is an image illustrating what the "image" button looks like in the editor. However, this doesn't match the button that's in the ...
ale's user avatar
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Users with 1 rep can't view any questions here on MSE

Trying to view questions with a 1 rep sock I have resulted in the Something Bad Happened: Can this please be fixed? Viewing questions while logged out (as anonymous visitor) works fine. Going ...
Shadow Wizard's user avatar
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1 answer
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Questions link almost unreadable when active on meta

If you click on Questions the font color is almost unreadable on the main site here. Is it possible to make it a slightly different color? (I cannot say if darker or lighter is better)
Naftali's user avatar
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2 answers
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Can Meta change its accepted answer styling to UX?

This is what an accepted answer looks like on Meta: Isn't this hard to see on the eyes? Why not this:
Cøde Play's user avatar
188 votes
10 answers
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Change rep required to downvote on MSE

To make your opinion known on MSE you need both up and downvotes. Given at the moment you need 125 rep to downvote on this site, the voting patterns will be skewed positive because not everyone is ...
muddyfish's user avatar
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"whats-meta" text doesn't make sense for this site

https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/whats-meta If you have an account on Meta Stack Exchange, you have an account on its meta site. You do not need to create a separate account for meta; ...
Martin Smith's user avatar
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12 votes
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Merge [frontpage] with [homepage]

MSE has these tags: 64 questions tagged frontpage For questions involving the site front page. 97 questions tagged homepage The initial view of a Stack Exchange site that consists ...
G-Man Says 'Reinstate Monica''s user avatar
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All that [gold] is not gold

I’ll make it short: Please delete the gold tag as it is pointless. There are one or two questions that are actually about gold badges in general without being about specific badges, but I cannot ...
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Tag synonym proposal: [original-author] -> [original-poster]

Suggest to make tag original-author (18 questions tagged as of now) to be a synonym of original-poster (9 questions). Preference for master tag, even though it has less questions, is because I ...
gnat's user avatar
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11 votes
1 answer
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Wrong message for suspended users who try to add a comment

This is what a suspended user see when trying to add a comment here on MSE: Or, in words: You must have 1 reputation to comment Suspended users do have 1 reputation, kind of. Error message ...
Shadow Wizard's user avatar
10 votes
1 answer
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Help center page contains unparsed markdown (MSE only)

On the how to answer page on MSE we see the following: ...are not about the software that powers the Stack Exchange [network](http://stackexchange.com/sites) as defined in the help center. The ...
Mooseman's user avatar
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Why do we threaten so quickly with an automatic ban (on Meta)?

Preamble: This is not yet a feature request. The point is to refine through discussion a potential future feature request. First, what is a ban warning: https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/231118/225842 ...
Antonio's user avatar
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15 votes
0 answers
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"answers" oozes out of accepted-answer green background

If you have a question here on Meta.SE with multiple answers, one of which is accepted, it shows up like this on the "favorites" tab of the user activity page (and probably elsewhere): No big deal, ...
senshin's user avatar
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8 votes
1 answer
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Hats missing in "Profile" tab when the About Me is blank

Normally, there is "hats" link under "last seen" field in the Profile tab here on MSE. However, when the About Me is blank, there is no "hats" link. Example: When switching to the Activity tab (...
Shadow Wizard's user avatar
9 votes
1 answer
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Default to lang-sql syntax highlighting for Meta.SE posts tagged with [data-explorer]

It would be nice if posts here on Meta.SE that are tagged with data-explorer would automatically have SQL syntax highlighting (a la <!-- language: lang-sql -->) applied, in the same way that ...
senshin's user avatar
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27 votes
11 answers
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Will there be hats on Meta Stack Exchange?

They were on Meta Stack Overflow previous year, but since the split occurred, I would expect them to appear here, on Meta Stack Exchange, this year. Will it happen (or any discussion on it)? I want ...
nicael's user avatar
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8 votes
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Academia and Graphic Design are missing from Meta’s icon cloud [closed]

Here is the icon cloud from Meta SE’s header with somewhat enhanced contrast: I can find every graduated site represented up there except Graphic Design and Academia. Interestingly, Salesforce, which ...
Wrzlprmft's user avatar
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6 votes
1 answer
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New meta.SE favicon has broken transparency

The new meta.SE favicon (the "hollow bubble") looks awful on a dark background: Note the stray light gray pixels in the corners, caused by broken transparency. The issue appears to only affect the ...
Ilmari Karonen's user avatar
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Adding/Editing tags - CSS issue on meta.stackexchange.com [duplicate]

See the screen shot: I guess it's not a feature but another minor bug.
Ionică Bizău's user avatar
6 votes
1 answer
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"Blatantly off-topic" close reason incorrectly rendering link

While flagging a question, I noticed that the "blatantly off-topic" close reason wasn't rendering the link to https://stackexchange.com/sites properly I assume that it's supposed to be just ...
Dennis Meng's user avatar
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11 votes
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Small overlapping text on Related questions in MSE

Just noticed a minor css issue on this question: Math Stackexchange said "We are Offline" until I reset my router - Why? The related questions on the right hand side have some overlapping ...
ForkandBeard's user avatar
13 votes
1 answer
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Should the post-ban threshold be adjusted on MSE?

as of writing I have one previous question here on meta, which was a feature-request, it hasn't been well received and thus has downvotes (overall -6). According to the help page: Voting is ...
AD7six's user avatar
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33 votes
2 answers
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Differentiate meta from meta

Meta, meta, meta... On the community bulletin, can we differentiate MSE from the per-site meta? Right now, the two are listed identically in the community bulletin. Instead of MSE posts saying '...
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This (meta) question already has an answer here? Not really

Here in Meta Stack Exchange we can close a question as duplicate of a question without any answer whatsoever. I won't get into whether it's right or wrong, just stating this as a dry fact. For ...
Shadow Wizard's user avatar
4 votes
1 answer
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Links for [tag:tag] works, but tag colouring doesn't

Here on Meta SE... If you type [meta-tag:status-completed], it correctly displays (in red) as status-completed. However, if you use [tag:status-completed], this correctly links to the meta site's ...
Bernhard Barker's user avatar
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0 answers
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Tag box on on question edit to small [duplicate]

When I went to edit a question here on meta I saw that the box to add Tags was to small (or the tags are just to low), here are some screens from different browsers: Google Chrome version:34.0.1847....
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White space below footer

I just noticed that here on meta the footer doesn't stick to the bottom of the page, I know that it's not that big of a deal but it does look a bit clumsy. Shouldn't there be an easy fix for this? ...
Daanvn's user avatar
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17 votes
1 answer
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There's something funky about some titles in revision histories here on Meta Stack Exchange

If you look at the revision history of Is SO pricing their site predatorially if it is making a loss? on Chrome 34 / Windows 7, you should see the following: The behavior of the title in revision 7 ...
senshin's user avatar
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4 votes
1 answer
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Make [meta-stack-exchange] a synonym of [meta]

Can we please make meta-stack-exchange a synonym of meta? Because the purpose of both tags is same that is for questions related to Meta Stack Exchange itself (meta meta). We are using meta tag for ...
Himanshu's user avatar
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In the SEDE the data for Meta Stack Exchange is missing

In the Data Explorer this site, Meta Stack Exchange, is missing. Can this be added to the weekly data dump, please?
rene's user avatar
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Horizontal overflow on my profile page

On my profile page on Meta Stack Exchange, the lines with the “summary”, etc. tab headings spills “votes” onto a second line. Observed with Chrome 33.0.1750.149, Chrome 34.0.1847.116, Firefox 27.0.1 ...
Gilles 'SO- stop being evil''s user avatar
8 votes
1 answer
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Someone pressed Shift in The generic off-topic reason

It's an incredibly minor typo, I know. It's just that it looks weird as heck, and the longer it stays, the more closed questions get stuck with it forever.
michaelb958--GoFundMonica's user avatar
35 votes
1 answer
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Meta's moderators are very shy

Post-split, Meta's moderators are (we've been told) the CMs and maybe a few other employees. And, sure enough, those folks have diamonds. However, something's missing: Where are all the moderators??...
Monica Cellio's user avatar
7 votes
1 answer
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Error page image missing on meta.SE

The following image does not exist: https://meta.stackexchange.com/content/stackexchangemeta/img/error-meta-error.png You can see its non-existence here: https://meta.stackexchange.com/error?error=...
Riking's user avatar
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0 answers
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Tag input too low when editing on Meta Stack Exchange [duplicate]

When editing a question on Meta Stack Exchange, the input field for the tags is too low. Or the tags are styled with a too large margin-top.
Anders Abel's user avatar
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8 votes
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The tabs are trying to escape from the 10k delete tools!

I was looking through the mSE 10k tools delete tab, and it seems that the date range chooser gizmo has seen the meta split confusion as a chance to make a break for it. We must catch it before it goes ...
Undo's user avatar
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15 votes
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Tags feeling a little shy again

When editing a question the tags are feeling a little shy and aren't displaying themselves fully. The inline tag editing does not have the same problem but the tags jump around a little as well. I'm ...
ben is uǝq backwards's user avatar