Questions tagged [meta]
Questions about Meta Stack Overflow
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Closure (duplicate/already answered) chains don’t seem to preserve meaning
I ran into something that feels off when looking at how duplicates/already-answered are being applied and chained.
Start here then follow the question closure chain:
Should reputation points be ...
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Arranging answers by Tags so that those answers are visible first and then remaining should be arranged below
I find that there are questions on Meta that have lots of answers (say 30 or more) such that it is very difficult to find a particular posted answer, since we have to go to the next page button and ...
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Should we consider moving the FAQ posts in the "Tagging" and "Editing/Formatting" sections of the FAQ index to Meta Stack Exchange?
The FAQs in some sections of Meta Stack Overflow’s FAQ index, like the "Tagging", "Editing/Formatting", and "Reputation and Voting" sections, seem to apply to the whole ...
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What's the best way to call attention to a bug that's been unaddressed for a while?
I ran into a visual bug on the hot meta posts UI and came here to post about it:
The similar questions wizard did its job of letting me know that this has been posted about before, at least three ...
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Transient/intermittent error: "it was not possible to perform this tag search at this time due to an unexpected error"
Went to Meta today and ran face-first into an error: "It was not possible to perform this tag search at this time due to an unexpected error". Unfortunately I didn't have the browser tools ...
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My bad experience on the main site led to a bad experience on meta. Now what?
At some point in the recent past, I posted a question or answer on Stack Overflow, and then something happened that I didn't like. It may have been downvoted, closed (questions only), deleted or ...
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Would separate tags for ongoing/concluded/graduated experiments make sense?
I'm primarily active on the other sites, so we don't get as many experiments as SO does. I popped by here to check on the status of the comments experiment they were trying here (where it was semi-...
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Why is a 2 years old meta-question featured?
Why is Policy: Generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT) is banned featured? Any good (or mediocre) reason? Is it now actual again after some time being not actual (I totally miss that "not actual" ...
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Why was this comment flag I raised declined? [duplicate]
I flagged a comment here as No longer needed. The flag was marked Declined, but the comment still got deleted.
Stack Exchange Inc hates its users and wants them all to leave.
I think it falls under
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Create Meta tag synonym from [front-page] to [homepage]
Both these Meta site tags seem to be referring to the same part of the site
front-page - 25 Questions
For questions where to topic concerns the site's home page at https://stackoverflow.com/, showing ...
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Did Kurtis and Nick come back to Stack Overflow?
I'd love to hear Kurtis Beavers and Nick Craver are back on board, but I'm pretty sure they are still pretty happy at Microsoft. Why then do they appear as "Staff" (Kurtis) and "Mod&...
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Where should I link people to justify the fact that we close opinionated and tool-seeking questions?
The FAQ article Question Close Reasons - Definitions and Guidance simply explains the standard set of reasons that questions are closed on Stack Overflow. But it doesn't seem to include a clear ...
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MSO home page returns "It was not possible to perform this tag search at this time due to an unexpected error" again
The MSO home page returns "It was not possible to perform this tag search at this time due to an unexpected error."
The page still appears to indicate if there is new activity since loading ...
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Low-scoring meta questions should no longer be hidden on the Meta.SO home page, as on Meta.SE
Yesterday, the Meta Stack Exchange home page was changed to no longer hide questions with below -8 score. Per the comments there, this was implemented only on the global meta and not per-site metas, ...
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Make it clearer that Discussions is not for meta about Discussions
Recently someone got upset about having a Discussions post deleted, and made another Discussions post to complain about it.
Notwithstanding any possible merits of the complaint, it certainly belongs ...
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