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

The only real difference between meta sites and main sites in this matter is what a low quality question is. As you said, a large number of downvotes on meta does not mean a question is low quality. … However, there are still plenty of closed, low quality questions on many different meta sites that should be deleted. …
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What can be an informal name for MSE?

The only spellings I've ever seen for this site are "Meta Stack Exchange", "MSE", and occasionally "Meta SE". All of these are names most users will recognize. …
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Why are there so many meta questions on Meta Stack Overflow that belong here?

I've noticed that on Meta Stack Overflow, there are lots of questions that should be here on Meta Stack Exchange instead. Why is this? …
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Do we need the ability to tag questions "rep-ability"?

rep-ability has been burninated. Thanks to everyone who participated.
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How to gather more views for a posted question other than putting bounties?

If you don't have enough reputation to start bounties, there are two good things you can do: Edit your question to make it really good Earn enough reputation to start bounties Admittedly, there's …
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Why do you need to add a bounty to get attention on Stack Exchange Meta?

If there was no requirement to bring attention to answers, it would become meaningless and there would be lots of questions with unnecessary attention. Requiring the user to give up some of their repu …
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Should we burninate the [groups] tag?

I recently found out that Meta Stack Exchange has a groups tag. It has 9 questions and no tag wiki or excerpt, and really doesn't add any useful information to questions. …
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Why doesn't meta have First Posts review anymore?

While looking at the timeline for an old question here on meta, I found that it was reviewed in First Posts (yes, it does exist). … When and why was first posts review removed from Meta Stack Exchange? …
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Make [answers-in-comments] a synonym of [answers-as-comments]

The tags answers-in-comments and answers-as-comments seem to refer to exactly the same thing: comments that should be answers. Because of that, answers-in-comments should be made a synonym of answers- …
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Remove one of the off-topic close reasons [duplicate]

Here on MSE, there are two close reasons within "off-topic" that mean exactly the same thing. This: This question does not appear to be about the software that powers the Stack Exchange network, w …
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Please Join Us in Welcoming Our New Meta Stack Exchange Moderators!

Congratulations, ChrisF, Tinkeringbell, and Journeyman Geek! I'm very excited that you're becoming Community Moderators. You've always done very well on SE, and I have a lot of faith in you.
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What to do with [code] and [source-code]?

The code tag now has a tag wiki excerpt. Most of the questions tagged code seem to follow the excerpt, but any that don't should be retagged. Other than that, code doesn't need any cleanup. source-co …
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How necessary are the child meta sites?

If you're using "main site" to refer to here, Meta Stack Exchange: You can read this question for much of the reasoning behind having separate meta sites (it's written specifically for Meta Stack Overflow … If you mean MSE: yes, it would gain more traffic if all meta questions from all meta sites were asked here, but only because all meta questions for all sites would be squashed into one giant meta site, …
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Are old, link-only answers not-an-answer?

Full disclosure: I was the one who told you to reflag the answer after your first flag was declined. A link-only is never an acceptable answer, and should be flagged as Not An Answer regardless of age …
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When should I vote to close as "off-topic -> does not appear to seek input and discussion fr...

Two of the close reasons here on meta, "Off-topic -> This questions does not appear to seek input and discussion from the community" and "Unclear what you're asking", seem to mean essentially the same …
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