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The questions tag should be used when you ask a question on meta that is referencing question(s) on the main site. For example, if you have a question about why questions on Puzzling Stack Exchange are of such low quality, you should include the questions tag.
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Why subjective riddles are a bad idea
again, unless I and the people who voted to close it have all missed some subtle point, in which case it could be that it was closed in error -- it doesn't really belong here any more than these other questions …
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What do we do when a question relies on an image that's no longer available?
In this particular case it turns out that all that happened is that postimg.org moved to postimg.cc. I have edited the question to change the hostname, and all appears to be well again.
Of course thi …
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Do we want all new questions to show up in The Sphinx's Lair?
FWIW I ...
quite like it
think it's a little too intrusive and would be better if (I've no idea whether this is possible) its posts looked like ordinary users', without the extra-wide margin and big …
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Accepted
My Puzzle has not received Attention after placing two bounties, what should I do about it?
I don't know how helpful this will be, but I'll describe my experience with the puzzle in question, which I've spent a modest amount of time attacking. This doesn't answer the "what should I do?" ques …
6
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Puzzle hidden in revision history?
There is another reason why I don't like the idea of having to look in the edit history: in some cases looking in the history can spoil a puzzle. (E.g., the questioner makes a mistake and leaves somet …
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Accepted
What to do if OP doesn't accept answer and give any kind of feedback?
Though, actually, both of those questions are now on hold, with some justification; each of them consists of multiple unrelated questions, which we discourage, and allegedly (I haven't checked but it seems … plausible) most or all of those individual questions are duplicates of ones already on PSE. …
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Accepted
Puzzles whose creators have asked them not to be shared
(They're often, though not always, also pretty bad questions by the metrics we use here at PSE. … Which doesn't, for the avoidance of doubt, necessarily mean that they're bad questions for the purpose they were created for.) …
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Puzzles whose creators have asked them not to be shared
Such questions should be permitted.
They may (as my other answer argues) often or always be bad questions, but the proper remedy for a bad question is downvoting. … If they don't post it publicly, there are legal mechanisms they can use to stop people sharing the questions. It's not our job to replace those legal mechanisms. …