Questions tagged [specific-question]
Use along with [meta] to ask about specific questions here on Meta Stack Exchange. Questions about questions on other network sites are off-topic here and should be posted on the site's meta instead.
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Should this question be migrated to MSO? "Are questions about improving performance on topic on Stack Overflow?" [duplicate]
Are questions about improving performance on topic on Stack Overflow?
This question is specific to Stack Overflow and still relevant, since it's been linked from MSO here: What makes a "good&...
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Why was my question - Why does downvoting mean 'no?' - downvoted? [duplicate]
I asked this question which ended up with a -7 score.
However, I am puzzled. It seems to be a legitimate question. While I understand that feature requests are downvoted to indicate disagreement, I ...
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Do users pay attention to account's age? [closed]
I am currently in the process of writing a paper about the discourse within Stack Overflow. I am focusing on the concept of seniority within the site.
My question for the site users is: Do you pay any ...
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A post is not rendering properly
I don't have the knowledge to use the correct terminology, but the post I earned 2cool4skool on a site I have not visited is greyed out on the "home" and "questions" pages with ...
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Is topic-hostile downvoting a thing, and are SE algorithms designed to catch it?
I am well aware that there are endless topics regarding hostile downvoting and how it should be dealt with. I have read a bunch of these threads, but one thing I have never seen raised is persistent ...
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Should "Why 'What Stack Overflow is Not' was deleted" be historically locked?
A long time ago, Shog9 deleted a popularly-linked question here. He then made another post, Why "What Stack Overflow is Not" was deleted, to explain his reasons for deleting the question ...
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Should this question, which reports a bug that has the same root cause as another bug but manifests in a different place, be closed as a duplicate?
This bug report, which reports that clicking the "Share" button before the page fully loads, causes the page to refresh because the button is a link is to a redirect to the same page, which ...
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Is this duplicate closure, of a question asking to discuss the content of an answer, correct?
I just asked What can I do if I have a feature idea that was already requested, but the author removed the suggestion in the meantime? here a few hours ago. That is a discussion regarding how to ...
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How is the Sandbox archive off-topic?
I was looking at the Sandbox archive here, and it says at the top, "This question and its answers are locked because the question is off-topic but has historical significance. It is not currently ...
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Why is this deleted meta question considered spam or abusive? (Why were my flags to remove the spam or rude/abusive flags declined?)
This question here on this site was deleted ten years ago, as it was a non-useful joke question. (It was posted during an era when joke questions were not necessarily considered bad or harmful ...
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How can I improve my question asking about when an answer to an announcement marked as planned will be implemented, and have it reopened? [duplicate]
Yesterday, I asked the question Will the pluralization issue in number of bookmarks on list of bountied questions in user profile page be fixed at some point?, which in its original revision reported ...
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How to clarify a question closed as site specific
My question How to handle an unnecessarily complex question was closed as site specific. I didn't intend it as such, as any Stack Exchange site can have the kind of overly complex question the meta ...
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What answer should one accept when they both answer different aspects of the question? [duplicate]
This question of mine asks for multiple things, and two different answers cover different parts.
Is here the metric which answer took the most time and work? Because I wouldn't know. Or is it which ...
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Why is the non-required tag displayed as the first tag of the question?
In general, for all questions one of the required tags is displayed as the first tag. But for this community wiki question, a moderator-only-tag is displayed as the first tag and the required tag is ...
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Revision history shows all the text changed - post stored as one long line with 
 instead of line breaks
For example, look at this edit history:
https://meta.stackexchange.com/posts/359735/revisions
It looks like every single revision replaced all the text in the post, even when the revision comment says ...
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