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According to "Be part of the community that decides how the sites work" MSE is only about the SE software. Is that correct for 2024? [closed]
According to the tour, to be part of this community, we should limit ourselves to asking questions about the "software that powers the Stack Exchange network" and about questions related to ...
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How do I flag a post that is not a question?
How do I flag a post that is not a question here on Meta Stack Exchange?
Examples:
Formatting Sandbox
Announcing the Stacks Editor Beta release!
Please raise the tag creation reputation threshold on ...
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The [broken-link] tag here is being used incorrectly
It seems people are using broken-link to specify broken links, but not within posts as the info/excerpt says.
Tag Info
For discussing the effects of broken links within posts and comments
across the ...
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How should I tag a question that may be a Feature Request or a Bug depending on the answer to the Support part?
From time to time I post Meta questions relating to something that works in a way that I wouldn't expect it to. In those cases, the system is either working as designed but I think it should be ...
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Was this question deleted? And if yes, why?
I just now was reading this question - "the-loop-has-arrived-what-does-the-community-think-about-it", then I refreshed the page and it was a 404. What happened to it? Was this question deleted? And if ...
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What is an appropriate way to indicate a previously asked question needs to be readdressed? [duplicate]
I'm about to use a specific example to highlight a general question
I recently posted an answer to What to do with cross-site duplicates? That question was originally asked, and a best-answer chosen,...
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Type of questions in Meta Stack Exchange? [duplicate]
Can we get answers for general knowledge questions in Meta Stack Exchange or only tech related ones?
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Why does Meta allow posts that are not questions?
I have searched to see if there was any post about this but the only thing I could find was this answer explaining what Meta is, and it still suggests that Meta is supposed to be used for asking ...
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Where should I ask a question about where should I ask a question? [duplicate]
I have a question and I'm not sure which site it should be asked on (or perhaps SE doesn't have a site for it).
Where should I ask about where should I ask it? Here? Area 51? Somewhere else ...
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Having a meta of each question? [duplicate]
I'm not saying the meta of the site, I'm talking about the meta of each question. You can think it like the history section, or the same as the edit page in every Wikipedia page, or the revisions page ...
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Is this is a duplicate?
I think these questions are duplicates.
MSO question: How many Stack Overflow accounts are banned from asking questions?
MSE question: What happens to folks who get question banned, by and large?
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What to do to old meta posts on abandoned features?
I think they should be deleted, because:
They are old meta posts. Meta posts are not contributed to human knowledge, they are created to help manage the site.
They are for abandoned features. If a ...
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Are "What does SE use for [insert feature here]?" questions valid on Meta Stack Exchange? [duplicate]
I had a discussion about this with TGMCians here (see screenshot at the bottom of the question), on a question that asks which control Stack Exchange uses for a specific feature. We did not agree ...
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Are poll-style questions ever acceptable on meta sites?
On proper Stack Exchange sites, poll-style questions are not considered acceptable. They typically would serve only to measure users' opinions in aggregate, which is not constructive.
However, meta ...
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Editing question title creates whole new question and other question list problems [closed]
SE is really acting up today, sometimes it doesn't show any questions in the questions tab in the sites.
I first noticed the problems when I opened my questions tab, and this shows up:
All I did ...
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Bug reports and feature requests are not "questions" [duplicate]
All the UI on this site talks about "Ask Question" and "Post Your Question". Those terms don't suit Meta Stack Overflow which is also used to accept bug reports, feature requests etc.
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Show a warning when posting a programming question here on Meta
There are some questions posted here on Meta that are clearly programming questions.
In my opinion, I believe that Stack Exchange should check the title. Anything with "python" or "java", for example ...
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What is the tag for [support] questions that seek to document the way the site software works?
Is there an additional tag to place on [support] questions to indicate that they are requesting clarification about how a feature of the site works (in effect, attempting to add a tiny additional ...
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Does it make sense to have a negative rep cap for Meta posts?
I've been thinking (and posting) a lot about voting and one issue that's come up over and over is the chilling effect that downvoting can have on Meta discussions and feature-requests.
Downvoting is ...
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What should I do if my feature request is a duplicate of a previous one?
I have a feature request: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/189649/add-checkbox-including-other-with-free-text-for-reason-of-up-down-voting
It has recently be marked as duplicate of an older ...
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Question list on Stack Overflow is not showing new question
On Stack Overflow the last question was asked approx 1 hour ago. It is not getting updated. Since the volume of the users are a lot, I can't believe that nobody has asked question since last 1 hour. I ...
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Does it make sense to keep downvoting a question that has been accepted? [duplicate]
I asked an honest question yesterday (my second ever on meta), and was dissapointed albeit unsurprised to be met with 6 downvotes -- many of which came after I accepted the answer.
As soon as the ...
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Show question suggestions of MetaSO on per-site-Metas [duplicate]
No, this is not a duplicate:I'm talking about all MSO questions in the suggested questions list, while @MadScientist wants to be able to view the faq posts on all per-site metas. That's a difference.
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How to find answers to questions that have been asked before, but never answered? [duplicate]
I recently stumbled across an old account of mine that I've lost access to, and filled out the form to have it merged.
I was confused by the instructions, just like the askers of this question and ...
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How to make a meta question more likely to be answered?
Question
How can I make this question, Improving Question-Asking - Looking for Suggestions more attractive to the SO community?
Why has it not been answered, despite the reputation and up votes?
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Downvoting unpopular, but good questions into oblivion. Why? Can we fix it? [duplicate]
Note: Here, when I say question, I typically mean support and discussion questions. Though this marginally can apply to feature request and bug reports as well.
So, I recently spent a good chunk of ...
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Should MSE related questions be allowed on independent meta.SE sites? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Which meta am I supposed to post on?
Support, feature requests, or bug reports for the core Stack Exchange engine that powers all Stack Exchange websites are asked on MSE.
I ...
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How to draw attention to an old unanswered question on meta? [duplicate]
I encountered exactly the same problem as described in this question on Meta: Undo the Removal of an Interesting Tag. That question was asked in 2010 and got almost no response.
How could I draw an ...
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Why the sudden influx of Facebook questions on Meta all of a sudden? [closed]
How come there are so many Facebook-related questions here on the Meta site in the last few hours? Did something happen that I missed?
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"Does this feature exist" counts as "I request this feature"?
Is there any theming support
This question simply asks if a feature exists and gets seven downvotes. The comment on the question says the downvotes are out of disagreement even though no opinion was ...
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Where does a typesetting math question go?
I have a question about a question (in other words a metaquestion) regarding typesetting exponents on the sin function.
The question is pretty simple.
It goes:
If I have a large number of terms ...
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Delete own downvoted question/answer on Meta?
On Meta, Downvotes signify disagreement and not necessarily low quality
So if an answer or question got downvoted on Meta - should the owner remove it or leave it? And is there a difference for ...
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Increase in number of off topic questions
Is it just me, or are there more off topic question here on Meta lately?
I'm just wondering if there is anything that can be done about it, or if anything has changed recently that is pushing people ...
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What is "recent names" in my profile page? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Who can see the “past names” field in user profiles?
In my profile page, there's a recent names under profile views. And I clicked the number(mine is 2), it shown ...
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do downvotes on meta indicate disagreement with the question's premise [duplicate]
I read the comments on this question and somehow stumbled over this comment:
Downvotes on meta indicate disagreement with the question's premise,
not that you asked a bad question.
as it ...
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What is Meta protocol for re-requesting ignored feature requests? [duplicate]
Sometimes a feature request is made and then, for whatever reason, time passes and it is ignored without much feedback and without being graced with "status-declined." Suppose someone else comes ...
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How can a question be tagged without any of the required tags?
"Duplicate of...[deleted post]" didn't contain any of the required tags. How is it possible, if the questions on a meta site require at least one of the required tags?
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Down votes should not have any side effect, on meta [duplicate]
After my first suggestion, I've now got a new suggestion: down votes should not have any side effect in meta.
By side effects, I mean something like banning me from asking questions due to too many ...
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Cross Linking Questions and Meta
In Area51 a proposal has a list of discussion question that reference it.
I would like to propose a similar feature for question in the SE network that are referenced in discussion on their ...
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Should the automated ban on questions used on SO apply to Meta as well?
From this question, it appears that the same system for blocking new questions by those that have a history of bad questions used on Stack Overflow also applies to Meta Stack Overflow. Should it?
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Is there a Meta-site for Stack Exchange?
There is a meta-site for every Stack Exchange site but is there a general Stack Exchange meta-site where we can talk about the Stack Exchange model?
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Archive Questions
How about we create a new status, Archived.
A moderator could Archive a question. This would allow rep from the question to still be counted, and a special search 'isarchived' could be used to find ...
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Broken Questions?
It seems that some questions are breaking down on Meta. Including this very question itself, the following three I have experienced issues with.
Undeserved Organizer badge
Merging a question with ...
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Meta: a site with lots of "Thank you" questions?
Yes, the title is a based off of Questions with lots of "Thank you" answers. Because to me, it's a related issue, although scoped to Meta specifically. Two posts today have come up, regarding the ...
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What could be done to stop off-topic questions on Meta from polluting the tag base?
Meta's tag base is very different than the rest of the trilogy - we expect and understand pretty much all tags to refer to components of the Stack Overflow system. For example, if a question is tagged ...
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Is the Q&A format really suited for Meta?
Many posts here are of the kind "I have this idea, do you like it?", "I found this bug, it should be fixed" or "I'd like this feature to be implemented".
How suitable is the Q&A format for such ...
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What motivates people to answer questions on Meta? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why are you on meta? (requires 10k MSO rep)
Okay, we're finding out about what motivates people to answer questions on Stack Overflow; but what motivates people to answer ...
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Should community wiki SO questions be moved to Meta? [closed]
Since the "community wiki" questions on Stack Overflow don't really seem to be in line with Jeff's ideology for the site, should thye all be moved to Meta? It seems like a better place for discussion/...
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Why didn't my meta question show associated question?
Okay, this is getting really meta here, as this is a meta question about a question about meta, but bear with me...
I just asked this question; it was closed as a dupe of this question. No problem ...
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