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About a year ago the offensive flag was subject to some renaming, which finally settled down on rude or abusive. This has the advantage of capturing non-offensive abuses of the site and thus clearly a …

The guidelines given to users who are about to suggest an edit are (boldface mine): Your edit will be placed in a queue until it is peer reviewed. We welcome all constructive edits, but pleas …

The current election interface advises: You should only rank the candidates you think would make good moderators. Why? I see two potential scenarios, both of which are dissatisfying: The STV syste …

The explanation for should be closed in the new flag dialogue for questions reads (boldface mine): This question is completely unclear, incomplete, overly-broad, primarily opinion-based or is not abo …

When you ask a new question (or edit one whithout having the edit privilege) and edit the tag field, a help box with the following appears on the right: How to Tag A tag is a keyword or label that ca …

The help centre’s What types of questions should I avoid asking? is linked in many prominent places guiding users on how to ask questions. However, with respect to too broad question contains only th …

TL;DR On the Internet the word comment has been widely adopted for a specific use, i.e., (a place to) dump your opinion on someting. SE comments are better than this. Rename them to remarks to avoid …

However, the only part of its wording that entirely fits this purpose is: “Changes to the system […] have rendered it obsolete.” Everything else seems to be worded with an unreproducible bug in mind. …

At the beginning of the grace period of a bounty I set on a question of mine, I received the following mail: Reminder: Your Bounty Ended! Your bounty on the question … [question title] … ended and wi …

The help center on tag-wiki excerpts says amongst others: Avoid generically defining the concept behind a tag, unless it is highly specialized. The “email” tag, for example, does not need to expla …

On the sidebar of the badge list, there are general descriptions of bronze, silver and gold badges. As of now, they read: Bronze badges encourage users to try out new features on the site. They are e …

The help page on the flagging privilege says: […] Flag to close (questions only)* Duplicate question* Off-topic (with sub-reasons)* Unclear what you're asking* Too broad* Pri …