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(Almost)* every site has its own 'child Meta'; for Mechanics it's https://mechanics.meta.stackexchange.com/. The child meta is also mentioned (and sort of linked to) in the Help Center article What is …

a choice dictated by technical needs This is correct; it used to be different (and http://meta.blender.stackexchange.com still works), but the new situation is a by-product of the migration to HT …

Hot Meta Posts are only appearing on 32 out of 174 sites where they could potentially appear. Quite frequently, we see users asking questions on Meta Stack Exchange which are more (or only) appropri …

Yes, thanks to the Stack Exchange Data Explorer this is possible. This query shows when a question was posted, when it became a Hot Meta Post and (if applicable) when it was manually removed from the …

You didn't have a Security.Meta account until today; this SEDE query doesn't return any results (and it's based on a snapshot from last Sunday). It's far from obvious, but when you create an account o …

It might depend on the community where you intend to post this 'advertisement'; I can imagine there might be users who will be complaining that it draws people away from their site. But what you propo …

That's a fault of the query, not of Stack Exchange. MathOverflow should be special-cased, right now it triggers this part of SiteToDb: WHEN name LIKE 'StackExchange.%' THEN …

No. Users would lose main site reputation for having unpopular opinions. Unpopular questions would be hidden from the front page if they have a score of -3 or lower, rather than -7. Users would run i …

There is no such overview for per-site metas, but we can generate one with help of the Stack Exchange Data Explorer. Your reputation on those sites is the same as on the main sites, but it's also poss …

No, this is not true. Stack Overflow's meta site is http://meta.stackoverflow.com, not this site. You have 25 reputation there as well. This site is an "über"-meta, and it's about topics which concer …

Please note that https://meta.stackoverflow.com is a different site than https://stackoverflow.com. Click the [edit] link next to the site name: and type Meta Stack Overflow. When you run the query a …

It's not possible to close a question on site X as duplicate of a question on site Y. That is true for main sites and meta sites alike. See e.g. Could we allow child Meta questions to be closed as dup …

Your idea is good, but you'll need a general sibling combinator for the CSS to work as intended. Sadly, we need to select based on the content as well, because there are sites where/times when there a …

Simply put, discoverability. There are more links from Stack Overflow to Meta Stack Overflow than directly to Meta Stack Exchange: Currently, there are two featured MSE questions in the sidebar widg …

The homepage of (almost) every site contains a 'community bulletin' with featured and hot meta posts: Users who visit the site regularly will notice this and probably realize there is such a thing …