Questions tagged [meta]
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What sort of resource request questions do we accept on meta?
We often migrate resource request questions to meta, and there's no denying that some resources are very useful to the users of this community.
Here's my attempt at broadly categorising these ...
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What is the point of migrating all resource requests to Meta?
There are a couple of resource requests that were recently migrated to ELU Meta (e.g Is there an online speech comparison programme, What are some good and authoritative reference/data source for ...
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Why are there so many meta questions about how so many main questions are being downvoted or closed?
Why are there so many meta questions about a supposed recent uptick in downvoting, closing, and/or bad questions themselves?
Also, why are these questions so presumptuous, assuming that there are ...
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Unreadable styling for highlighted tags on meta
When highlighted because the mouse moves over them, the “status-bydesign” tag and some others turn into a weird and unreadable combination of colours: black text on maroon background. Here's an ...
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Should questions about resources be asked on main or meta?
https://english.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4204/speaking-english-with-native-speaker , which was asked on meta, has been closed.
The justification given was
"This question does not appear to ...
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Why can't we help programmers with English language usage?
As I understand it, questions about nomenclature, including language for use in coding, are considered off-topic at EL&U.
Why is that? What was the rationale for deeming them as such? And does ...
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