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Meta Stack Exchange (aka MSE) is the governing meta site for all Stack Exchange sites together. Use this tag to ask questions about this very site. In some sense, the [meta] tag is "Meta-Meta Stack Exchange".

45 votes

Has there been an increase in suspensions on MSE lately?

Many high-profile Meta users are suspended recently. …
iBug says Reinstate Monica's user avatar
23 votes
12 answers
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If someone is hurt by a literary reference, should it be removed?

Today I submitted an answer supporting Monica, using a reference to a famous short poem First they came .... The reference itself incurred quite some dispute that drove me into asking this question. …
iBug says Reinstate Monica's user avatar
18 votes

Are the meta mods overwhelmed?

Given the recent wave of protests, I'd assume CMs and the remaining 2 Meta mods are pretty busy at the moment, so it's perfectly normal for your flag to remain unhandled till now, or potentially for even …
iBug says Reinstate Monica's user avatar
-2 votes
2 answers
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Do the criteria for a link-only answer differ on Meta than on main sites?

It looks non-self-contained and thus link-only to me, so I commented as such, but was told that It's a valid answer here on Meta. … Do we have different criteria for LOA on main sites and on meta sites? …
iBug says Reinstate Monica's user avatar
8 votes
2 answers
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Is the VLQ flag appropriate for blatantly off-topic questions here on MSE?

The endless stream of blatantly off-topic questions never ceases to flow into MSE, which is a topic that's been brought up many times. I've written a userscript that automatically casts a close vote, …
iBug says Reinstate Monica's user avatar
15 votes
3 answers
177 views

What kind of questions warrant manual or immediate deletion on Meta?

Unlike main sites, (heavily) downvoted questions on Meta aren't necessarily of low quality, and therefore don't always warrant deletion. …
iBug says Reinstate Monica's user avatar
5 votes

Do we need the ability to tag questions "rep-ability"?

I am in full support of your idea – it's useless because whatever it means is already covered by the many other tags we have already had on Meta Stack Exchange. …
iBug says Reinstate Monica's user avatar
9 votes
Accepted

Is a question that asks for a review of my reviews allowed on Meta?

Yes, but not this Meta. Questions about contents (including reviews) on a site is totally on-topic on its per-site meta, in your case, Meta Stack Overflow. … Well, this site also starts with "Meta", but not the right place. But at least I'm glad that you know there's something called "a meta site" for issues like this. …
iBug says Reinstate Monica's user avatar
6 votes
Accepted

Does the RemoveDeadQuestions directive apply to meta?

Quoting Shog9 here: This only applies to the RemoveAbandonedQuestions check; all other automated question deletion routines documented on that page run on both main and meta sites. … So yes, RemoveDeadQuestions runs on Meta, and here's a live example: …
iBug says Reinstate Monica's user avatar
9 votes
Accepted

What should I do if I cannot find the right community for my question?

here, on Meta Stack Exchange, and tag it with discussion site-recommendation. …
iBug says Reinstate Monica's user avatar
-9 votes
1 answer
89 views

* [blocked] --> Synonym of [?-ban]

blocked --> [tag:?-ban] No usage guidance nor tag wiki, no clear meaning (we have various tags like [ip-ban] [post-ban] [review-ban] etc.), ambiguous. Only serves as a signpost. Can we make blocked …
iBug says Reinstate Monica's user avatar
6 votes
1 answer
174 views

Why isn't "Comments are not for extended discussion" the case on Meta?

I rarely see this happen on Meta sites, however. What's the reason for that? …
iBug says Reinstate Monica's user avatar
29 votes
2 answers
1k views

Why do users often ask blatantly off-topic questions here on Meta?

For quite some time, newer users seem to ask a lot of blatantly off-topic questions here on Meta. … I'm curious as this issue seems to be specific to Meta Stack Exchange (and MSO to some extent), and the frequency varies every day. What could be the cause? …
iBug says Reinstate Monica's user avatar
2 votes
1 answer
26 views

Are these duplicates?

Add tag wiki/excerpt audits with copied content We need tag wiki plagiarism audits I'm very curious why they aren't duplicates. Both are requesting basically the same feature, with highly similar p …
iBug says Reinstate Monica's user avatar
9 votes
2 answers
98 views

Why are a lot of should-have-been-on-MSO questions closed instead of migrated back?

I learned that MSO and MSE split up in Mid 2014, and since then a lot of good questions were closed as pertains only to a specific site. Some even have comments below claiming To be clear, this qu …
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