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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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What about a question calling for examples of a certain type of puzzle?
According to Josh Caswell and the meta references he linked to, this is not a desirable form of Q&A on SE as a whole - but the same could be said of challenge questions, and we discovered that those are …
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Should we have weekly/fortnightly topic challenges?
A meta post is written up giving a brief summary of the idea (with the featured tag, hopefully), and at the end of the week, users who asked or answered one or more questions about that topic are recognized … Now, we have quite a lot of diverse questions on Puzzling, and we sometimes have unofficial themes affecting pockets of questions within a short period of time (notably password and rebus), so it appears …
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Questions can be manually removed from HNQs
So apparently there is a secret way to remove questions from the Hot Network Questions.
Look at this question. The original version made it to #25 on the HNQs. … Googling stack exchange remove questions from HNQs or stack exchange remove questions from hot network questions yields no relevant results. …
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Community consensus on linked puzzles?
Following up on a recent discussion in comments...
Does the community approve of linked puzzles?
Linked puzzles can come in at least two varieties.
One user posts a puzzle of a certain type, which …
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What's the policy on puzzles *paraphrased* from other sites?
I've looked at Is it acceptable to copy and paste questions from other sites? … go on a witch hunt and start flagging or deleting a bunch of my posts for plagiarism: if the answer to this question is "yes, you do need to provide attribution", then I'll happily go through my old questions …
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Why was my question removed from the HNQs?
Emrakul made an invisible edit to my latest puzzle in order to remove it from the Hot Network Questions. I was not consulted about this beforehand or afterwards. …