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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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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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Best practice to grab some up-to-date information from Meta
It's a bad practice because if all people follow this, Meta will soon be flushed by repetitive posts.
Flag an old post for ♦ attention. … Post this question for the Meta community's idea :) …
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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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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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What's the intention of setting a bounty on a [feature-request] or a [bug]?
I'm curious why people set bounties on feature-requests and bugs. AFAIK it won't speed up the implementation or fixing progress of the FR/B, because the coders in SE don't matter about them very much. …
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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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What do votes on official announcements mean?
Since voting has a different meaning on Meta, what does it mean if someone upvotes an official announcement? Further more, why does this question even have a downvote? …
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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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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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* [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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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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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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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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`[metaso]` expanding to MSE instead of MSO
Since Meta Stack Exchange was separated from Meta Stack Overflow in 2014, it no longer never makes sense to expand [metaso] to Meta Stack Exchange. … Adding magic link for Meta Stack Overflow? …