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I like having a shorthand for moving between main and meta in comments. As noted in the question, "m/q/613" consumes much less of the limited resources of a comment than the full URL. However, havin …

Writing has a (currently weekly) topic challenge focusing on tags that move us toward Generalist. In each challenge, the person running it picks two different tags from the set of tags with 100-200 q …

It's very confusing to be able to edit on main but not meta. It looks like we have most of the pieces of a solution in place already, so providing this shouldn't be nearly as hard as it would have be …

Users can interact with their own questions. Here is an example from Mi Yodeya meta; notice that the OP commented on one of the answers. I believe the "need 5 rep for meta" check is made at the time …

Bounties are a good way to promote questions on the main site, but they don't work for meta (as you know). Changing that would require a lot of analysis of use cases, policy, and existing code to mak …

Edit: This has now been implemented. (h/t Arjan) The Stack Exchange Unofficial Patch (SOUP) user script restores the regular font color on mouse-over. So it's grayed out by default but if you're …

A gold badge would complete the set and prompt more people to pay attention to meta. But rather than just expanding the number of posts as suggested here, we should also raise the score bar. We don' …

On meta those flags go straight to moderators. On main sites they go to the queue first but eventually go to moderators if the community doesn't handle them. On most sites "eventually" means after 1 …

This is further compounded by the fact that people coming in with only an association bonus can vote up but can't vote down. I've seen this skew meta posts in weird ways. It seems to me that one of …

I belatedly realized a faster way to do it, that is also easier for me than trying to navigate the full site on a phone: manually edit the URL to add (or remove) "meta.". Sometimes bypassing the UI i …

There are two places in the UI where this information could be provided, and existing answers discuss both of them. These are the top-bar notifications and the meta profile. I know that there has be …

Moderators can already do that when it's appropriate. My concern with making it a user-accessible option is that too often it's not appropriate. People post feature requests on the metas I'm active …

As explained in other answers, it's perfectly fine to ask questions about network-wide features and behaviors on per-site metas. People who only participate on one site, who maybe just learned about …