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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".
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Has there been an increase in suspensions on MSE lately?
Many high-profile Meta users are suspended recently. …
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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.
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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 …
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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? …
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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, …
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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. …
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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. …
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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. …
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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: …
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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. …
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* [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 …
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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? …
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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? …
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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 …
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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 …