What is meta? ×  Although my experience at Stack Overflow has
been quite pleasant, the same can't be said about Meta Stack
Overflow.  I have already gone through an "un-Stack Overflow"
type of culture at Meta Stack Overflow including receiving a
barrage of sarcastic remarks, four letter words, and other
words, to name a few.  What does Meta Stack Overflow do to
defaulters in this list? Of course there is a "flag abusive
remark" control; even so, this seems to be more like "you could
continue doing what you are doing". Is there a system in place
for getting Meta SO into the Stack Overflow culture that we all
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down vote accepted  Personally, I let a lot more slide on meta
than I do on SO. A lot of the people here on meta know each
other, and joke around with each other. It normally makes for a
good-spirited debate, rather than an abusive down-beating.
There have been a few notable instances where we've had to pull
the plug on a "discussion" that got o