There is no Meta Meta Stack Overflow, so questions about this very site just get this tag.
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Reputation on metas and mains [duplicate]
I am member of Stack Overflow, Meta-Stack Overflow, Arqade and Arqade-Meta. My Reputation on Arqade and Arqade-Meta are same, But here on Stack Overflow and Meta-Stack Overflow it is not same. Why ?
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Improve off-topic close reason on meta
The current off-topic close reason for Meta is
Questions on Meta Stack Overflow are expected to generally relate to the Stack Exchange family of websites and/or community in some way, within the ...
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Question banning Meta users is silly and broken
This user appears to have been question banned because of two unpopular Meta suggestions. (He says so in Chat)
Look at the two contributions that appear to have gotten him banned. How is this system ...
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Why was this answer deleted
This answer was recently deleted:
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/a/178815/137265
I am not quite sure why. I like to welcome new users and dislike it when they get downvoted for no reason (like here.)
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From meta user to main site user
When you see user on meta, you sometimes wonder what the corresponding SO account is. Sometimes you can guess and search on the user page, but this is tedious and doesn't always work (or might even ...
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Can we merge/burninate [update] and [updates] tags in Meta
In Meta Stack Overflow there are two tags update and updates. No tag wiki available. Looks almost same for questions regarding any updates. Can we merge them?
Update:
It has different meanings in ...
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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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How to help visitors on Meta distinguish more clearly Meta reputation and Stack Overflow reputation? [duplicate]
One gets easily confused seeing many people on Meta with 30k, 40k, or 45k reputation. For a while one may mistakenly think they must be really smart, brainy, and experienced. Until he checks out their ...
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How did I start with more than 100 reputation on meta.quant.stackexchange.com?
I logged into http://meta.quant.stackexchange.com for the first time, and saw that my reputation (on the meta site's bar) was 180,
which was my reputation on the main site, ...
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How can we reduce off-topic questions on meta?
We can see 20 to 30 off-topic questions per day. Most of that questions are programming questions.
Users asking those questions have no time to read the How to ask page; they want the solution for ...
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What happened to all the questions on Meta? [closed]
I don't see any questions on Meta on any of the tabs (but the suggested questions that come up based on the title still seems to work). I am able to view questions via direct links, and search works, ...
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Review link on top bar is not showing on Meta site
I have 300+ reputation on Stack Overflow and following image is of my Stack Overflow site,
As we can see that it is showing "Review" link on Stack Overflow site. Now I have 800+ reputation on ...
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Merge and synonymise the “[Previews]”
Meta has three preview tags:
preview
Live render of the post as you are writing it.
markdown-preview
Questions about the live Markdown preview of posts as they're being typed.
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What is the correct way to request a [status-xxx] tag? [duplicate]
This question is now status-completed. (EDIT: deleted now, must find better example) (EDIT2: Another example: this question should be status-reproduced.)
How should I request a [status-something] tag ...
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What does “Meta” mean? [duplicate]
I am fairly new to Stack Overflow and just stumbled across Meta Stack Overflow.
I can't seem to figure out what the purpose of the "Meta" site is. Can someone please explain it to me?
