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As Sam I am notes, it's a judgement call... Meta sites are a perversion of the Stack Exchange model, discussion sites implemented using a Q&A engine. This works surprisingly well, if you keep the li …

This touches on something that's been discussed a lot over the years, both here on meta and internally within the company. It's a complicated topic; it's got layers. I'll try & cover it fairly here be …

You can read my thoughts on cross-site duplicates in general here: The ability to link cross site duplicates I understand the motivation for wanting to special-case metas, but honestly I think it end …

This is a good change - having accurate data should enable much more nuanced adjustment of this feature in the future. Rotation and randomness I have one question: how does this play with rotation? Pr …

Looks like the full set is: reputation site-promotion questions tags comments badges answers search voting editing bounty user-interface specific-question accepted-answer markdown stackexchange comm …

Update As the relevant communities grew, this did start to make sense. And three years later, we did implement it. How does the fact that Stack Overflow is large justify the lack of a "real" Meta si …

Discussing a general philosophy of tagging is fine. For example, "Should we have character tags" or "Is it ok to create a tag for a specific API if people are asking questions about that API?" Discus …

There are a seemingly-endless number of bad ideas; we don't really need to archive them. Of course... If someone writes up a really good explanation for why an idea is bad, that can be worth keeping …

You don't get reputation on Meta, so there is no reason to tactically downvote. I don't feel strongly one way or the other about this suggestion, but I do want to dispute this particular assert …

Stolen from today's most brilliant marketing geniuses: Ever sit and wonder what would happen if something great got even better? meta.yoursitenamehere

I want people to understand that the very existence and health of the site depends on their participation. WE'RE ALL GONNA DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! (without you. meta.yoursitenamehere)

Bounties aren't even a particularly great way to get attention on MSO (the only meta where they're available). They're nice for the occasional contest, but there are better ways of getting attention: …

As doncherry notes, https://tex.meta.stackexchange.com/posts/2603 isn't a valid URL format for a question on SE, so 404 is completely appropriate. But for the edit URL, it looks like this is being d …

Special-casing rules on meta sites is a pain. Sometimes, it's necessary; I don't see that's the case here. Keep in mind, even on main sites folks are encouraged to put tags in their titles when the t …

I kinda feel like building this into the site would cause more confusion than it would save. That said, nothing stopping you from building your own tool for this purpose if you think it's sufficient …