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The future of meta.stackoverflow and meta.stackexchange
Historically this site, meta.stackoverflow, has been the place to ask questions about not just Stack Overflow, but the functioning of the entire Stack Exchange (2.0) network, including Area 51 and ...
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Get rid of the question ban on Meta; suspend actively harmful users manually
This user appears to have been question banned because of two unpopular Meta suggestions. (He says so in Chat)
Look at the two contributions that appear to have gotten him banned. Like those of many ...
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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 ...
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Can you bring the color back to meta?
I find the this gray color scheme extremely difficult to read. It's also very hard to tell the difference between questions with answers and without.
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Voting on Meta is not just for (dis)agreement. Update the help center to reflect this
Voting on Meta is a bit of a two-headed beast. In addition to the regular meaning of votes as on other sites, the votes on Meta are sometimes also cast to express agreement or disagreement.
In the ...
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Add a note about downvoting on Meta
There is a lot of irritation and whining from newbies when their suggestions get downvoted because they don't understand that votes have a different meaning here.
This is unnecessary, and I'm ...
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Meta duplicates don't require an answer. Don't suggest there is one when that's not true
This request was sparked by this particular question. The vote to close as a duplicate on meta, in contrast to the main site, does not require for the duplicate to have an answer. Yet, the closure ...
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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??...
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Migrate questions from meta stackexchange sites to meta.stackoverflow.com
Several of the questions on the meta site of WebApps are about the stackexchange engine itself. There should be a way to migrate those questions to a different meta site. I believe Robert said that ...
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Hiding downvoted questions silences important discussions on Meta
TL;DR: Please do not hide Meta Stack Exchange posts on the homepage based on the score because this site works differently than the other ~180 sites listed in https://stackexchange.com/sites.
I just ...
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Comment vote coloring is backwards
High voted comments are in black text and look boring and unremarkable, while comments with a few votes have the red "hot" color on them. (I have no idea what is with the blue 25 :P)
Could this be ...
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Shouldn't you take the plunge and have a per-site Meta for Stack Overflow too in favor of meta.stackexchange.com? [duplicate]
Update 2:
It looks like this is finally getting addressed (see The future of meta.stackoverflow and meta.stackexchange) - I'm quite happy that Jeff has reconsidered this indeed as envisioned in his ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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"We're no longer accepting" message should not be hosted on meta [duplicate]
When users receive a question ban they see a message that links them to a post on meta in the faq tag.
I would like to put forward the hypothesis that this is the way most of the users who post ...
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Make viewing deleted posts and vote counts more widely available on Meta SE
Meta SE is where a lot of discussion about things that affect the entire network take place. While most privileges should be locked behind the usual rep progression, there are some that shouldn't be.
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Keep "Employee" on the profile of SE employees on meta [duplicate]
Currently, SE employees are given diamonds wherever they need them. I agree with Jeff on this to some degree, employees shouldn't be treated any different.
But... on meta, employees are different. ...
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You can't see the question owner's special color
When the owner of a question comments on their question or an answer to their question or self-answers their question, they get a special color for the box around their username.
The problem is, you ...
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Please add the "Why are upvotes and downvotes here different?" text to Meta SE site FAQs
I'm finding the people not familiar with SE/SO-trilogy don't understand how voting should work on Meta Stack Exchange sites. Can this text on the Meta SO FAQ please be added to Meta SE site FAQs as ...
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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?
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Featured questions are not shown network wide
Currently, there are three questions tagged with featured here on Meta Stack Exchange. Usually, when there is a post with this tag, it is visible throughout the network on the Community bulletin or ...
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Flags are broken on MSO
Something seems to be wrong with flags on MSO. Everywhere I look at the results of flags they're not there, the counts seem to be wrong and Community has gone nuts on the "more than 20 comments&...
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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 ...
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Let's update our "only applicable to one specific site" close reason to utilize the five available close fields!
Current Proposal:
The currently accepted answer by Catija reflects the currently preferred proposal.
Journeyman Geek, seemingly speaking for the Meta Stack Exchange mod team at the time, brought ...
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Stop special-casing Stack Overflow's meta
Questions about why Stack Overflow does not share rep with Meta Stack Overflow are met with the response that meta.stackoverflow and stackoverflow do not share a "parent-child relationship" ...
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Will Meta Stack Exchange be merged with Meta Stack Overflow?
Will Meta Stack Exchange be merged with Meta Stack Overflow? Would such a merge be a good idea? A bad one?
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JavaScript is broken on meta
I'm getting this error in Firebug:
TypeError: l is undefined
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/content/Js/full.en.js?v=29537078da9e
Line 45
The icons in the top bar aren't clickable and I don't ...
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Missing space when hovering over tag score on Meta
A little pedantic, but once I noticed it I couldn't unsee it.
When I hover over the tag score for a user who has asked and answered a question in the tag on Meta, there is no space after the first ...
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Can't login with Stack Exchange username and password
I almost always login through Stack Overflow,
but today I happened to clear my cache then go straight to Meta, which presented me with
Here, the Log In button does nothing for me. I am in an airport ...
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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 ...
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New lock type: "Official Announcement Lock" [duplicate]
I have wanted to propose something along these lines, but a comment by rjzii stated it very well:
@GeorgeStocker In all fairness, an official SE post should just be locked from the beginning as a ...
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Username being truncated on MSO
Something that changed today (perhaps Winter Bash) is causing my username to be shortened at the top of the page but only on MSO.
When the page loads, it is correct but almost instantly it gets ...
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List (both numbered and bulleted) CSS appears to be broken
The CSS for lists across the network appears to be broken. Specifically, the following used to exist, but no longer does:
ol {
list-style-type: decimal;
}
ul {
list-style-type: disc;
}
ul, ol ...
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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 ...
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Eeeeek! MSO JS is all borked!
I just noticed that clicking a JS-like link on MSO (like to show more hot network questions) just bumps me to the top of the page and doesn't do anything else.
Also, adding a comment or any other JS-...
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Search on Meta is slow (sometimes)
During the last hour or so, searching on Meta Stack Exchange can be very slow; searching only on a tag still works as normal, probably because it automatically redirects to e.g.
https://meta....
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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 ...
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Kotlin highlighting?
I motion to reopen Support Kotlin in code highlighting as there's a lot of evidence
It says
If Kotlin becomes more popular in the future, we will reconsider.
Evidence of maturity
There's a rejected ...
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Can't place a bounty on meta questions?
I've done quite a bit of searching but don't see anything regarding it.
I am unable to place a bounty on my own, or anyone else's question here on meta.
I see the featured tab is still available, ...
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Design issue in review stats page
On the review stats page, the badge progress is at the bottom of the screen.
We should fix it.
Same type of issue in deleted posts page.
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Can the tag wikis for the mandatory tags and moderator-only tags be propagated to all the other meta sites?
A question was raised on NothingToInstall's Web Apps chat about missing tag wiki's for [status-completed] etc.
I went and created some, but realised that these would be the same for all meta sites, ...
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Please raise the tag creation reputation threshold on Meta
Similar to what was done on Stack Overflow, I would like the threshold for creating new tags to be increased on Meta.
I'm proposing a new threshold of 1,000 reputation (from the current 99) -- this is ...
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Can I learn what [learning] is?
The tag learning on this site seems to have no clear purpose, with questions ranging from "learning how to use the site" to "learning about topics". It seems to meet the definition of a too-broad tag.
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Let's disambiguate / burninate [filter]
The filter tag, used on 27 questions has no excerpt or wiki, and it's used in quite a few different situations, see below. I think we should get rid of it, but slowly, in order not to flood the ...
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Fanatic badge on Meta Stack Overflow?
I just looked at the Badges page on Meta Stack Overflow and the Fanatic badge is strangely absent. I suspect that it's been intentionally ommitted as the Fanatic badge was announced before Meta Stack ...
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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)
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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; ...
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Can't log in on meta.stackoverflow.com [closed]
I'm logging this for you, since you clearly can't!
Working on it... it is something to do with MVC 5. Normal service will be resumed shortly.
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Include a link from the meta profile to the main profile
As I'm sure everyone knows, the user account on meta sites of new SE beta sites are tied to the user accounts of the main site and the profile pages on the meta sites are slightly cut down (there is ...
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Expanding reputation is broken
When trying to 'expand' the reputation (by clicking on the arrow) it shows the AJAX loader.
But nothing happens. It doesn't even make a request to the server :P
cannot expand rep http://img46....
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