Change tooltip for up/down vote button on feature requests
This is a very minor issue (and only affects SO meta), but the feature-request tag reads:"On posts tagged feature-request, voting may indicate agreement or disagreement with the proposed change, in...
View ArticleShould low-scoring meta questions no longer be hidden on the Meta.SO home...
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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MSO home page returns "It was not possible to perform this tag search at this...
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 it, and can...
View ArticleWhere should I link people to justify the fact that we close opinionated and...
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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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" (Nick)?
View ArticleCreate Meta tag synonym from [front-page] to [homepage]
Both these Meta site tags seem to be referring to the same part of the sitefront-page - 25 QuestionsFor questions where to topic concerns the site's home page at https://stackoverflow.com/, showing...
View ArticleLow-scoring meta questions should no longer be hidden on the Meta.SO home...
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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Link back to the main SO from Meta SO
Why isn't there a button dedicated to going back to Stack Overflow from Meta Stack Overflow?I get that the yellow rectangle gets people engaged from SO to MSO but once you've clicked on a link it's not...
View ArticleWhy 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...
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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" period, sorry)?...
View ArticleJoin our dedicated Meta Stack Overflow chat room!
Meta Stack Overflow doesn't have a dedicated chat room just for any type of meta discussion, so I've created a basic chat room for meta discussion that can be used as a go-to chat room for the site:The...
View ArticleDownvoted questions on Meta with a non-negative scored answer on them should...
A simple suggestion:If a question has one or more answers,and one of the answers is not negatively scored (with a minimum of two votes),...then the post should still be shown on the main page...
View ArticleShould [retag-request] be split into [tag-rename-request]?
The current excerpt for the meta-tag retag-request is as follows:This tag is for requests to replace one tag with another existing tag. It also applies to requests that one tag should be merged into...
View ArticleWould 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...
View ArticleWhen it comes to providing feedback on Meta, is it appropriate to downvote to...
My understanding is that you are supposed to downvote when the answer is bad:Doesn't explain itself properlyThe solution provided is inefficient or impracticalThe solution doesn't work or doesn't solve...
View ArticleMy 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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