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How exactly do people (accidentally) end up here on MSE? [duplicate]

On a daily basis, MSE gets a few (sometimes more than a few) off-topic questions that are posted here by accident. This is when a user intends to post the question on a specific site on the network ...
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2020: a year in moderation

As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months. As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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What data about meta has eluded Stack Exchange until recently?

In the recent blog post there is the following paragraph (emphasis mine): Opinions and feelings about the best way forward are extremely valid things to consider, but the devil is in the details ...
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2019: a year in moderation

It's New Year's Day in [Stack Exchange land](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulu_Time)... A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated: We designed the Stack Exchange ...
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Has there been an increase in suspensions on MSE lately?

I have recently noticed several "high-rep"(1) users (who were pretty active over the past weeks and months) are currently suspended, adding to plenty of other suspensions I've noticed since October ...
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Looking for stats related to possibly coordinated comments flagging

Related: Why was Robert Harvey suspended? I would like to get some statistics about comments of this user that were deleted in two weeks between October, 8 and October, 22. Specifically, I would want ...
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What's responsible for the increase in the number of accounts created every week here on Meta Stack Exchange?

I've noticed that since the past year, the number of accounts created on Meta Stack Exchange every week has increased noticeably, and has sustained a much higher rate than it has sustained for the ...
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No "2018: A year in moderation" here?

Shog9 has been posting posts titled "2018: a year in moderation" in all the child-metas (e.g., here's the post on MSO) with some interesting statistics on how many various moderation tasks are ...
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Statistics regarding users who recently flooded MSE with blatantly off-topic debugging questions

Related: Sudden increase in off-topic posts on MSE Ways to give users some specific education about question quality and topicality Block migration if user is suspended/question-blocked at ...
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How to share knowledge that isn't an answer to a question?

To clarify: this question is about posting on meta sites. To share knowledge, it is recommended to post instant self answer. However, what do you do if the knowledge isn't an obvious answer to a ...
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Where do first visitors on Meta Stack Overflow come from?

We all know that Meta Stack Overflow gets a bunch of off-topic questions that should have been posted on Stack Overflow in the first place. Whenever I ask these users how they even came here, they ...
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Is there a way to extract statical information based on tags?

I notice a lot of trends in StackOverflow--lately I've noticed a pretty massive swing to android--it has more questions than Java and iPhone combined right now. This doesn't exactly mean any one ...
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New meta users can't upvote, results in biased opinions?

The following concerns me, "Who is active on meta?". Do opinions, expressed by upvotes represent the entire population of Stack Exchange? For starters 701 pages of users on meta vs 9794 users on SO. ...
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