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Please zap the meta-tags and dependent tags

I'm starting to see an alarming trend of what I feel is a major misuse of the tags. To recap what I've said in the past, tags exist for two reasons: To help other members determine whether or not a ...
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Are questions about food presentation and table setting on- or off- topic?

I wanted to ask a question about how to present a steak at a dinner we are hosting tonight for another couple. (This fancy dinner thing is new to me and we're trying out the new settings we got from ...
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Does everything on meta.stackoverflow.com apply to Seasoned Advice?

This meta.stackoverflow question says it does, but it's a bit old. Is this still the case? Should we ask non-cooking-specific meta questions here or there?
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Policy on Minor Edits (that meet the 6 char requirement)

Whats the policy on minor edits? I made several edits where I did a combination of the following: Removed odd spacing / formatting in questions Fixed lower-case letters at the start of sentence of ...
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How can I create a tag for [X]?

I have an idea for a new tag that is so mind-blowingly important and brilliant that every passing second without it fills me with unfathomable, suicidal sorrow. What can I do to add this wellspring ...
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Tag merge request: [food-preservation] [storage-lifetime] [storage-method] into [food-storage]

The following tags all mean fundamentally the same thing: [food-preservation] [storage-lifetime] [storage-method] The most popular is [storage-method], but it's also the least general. I'd like to ...
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I just got crushed by a moderator

I would like to know if the other mods feel he was abusing his power. This is the relevant question: How do you score pork skin? If I was out of line, I will quietly go away. If not, I'd like to ...
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What is this "chat with an expert" message I keep seeing? [closed]

The pass couple of days I see this little popup on the side of questions that says "Chat with an expert": At first I thought it was a functionality in which you can directly go into a chatroom ...
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Why all the down-voting?

I'm a new member, and I've noticed that a number of questions (which seem fine to me, and apparently also to others who answer them) get down-voted. Then an answer I gave about frying potatoes got ...
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