But just to be clear those are separate mechanisms. Plenty of decent questions get answers and down-votes without getting closed, and plenty of questions get closed without any down-votes. — Aaron Bertrand 46 secs ago

Inadequate definitions and ambiguous examples are unhelpful. Clarify what you actually mean, because right now the post just seems to be a vague passive-aggressive complaint that moderation isn't doing exactly what you think it should. — Nij 17 secs ago

"This had worked in the past" <-- Please provide an example where it is actually working. I doubt that it ever worked in the past. As far as I'm aware, the alt text for images has always been rendered as a browser-native tooltip. It is not possible to format a browser-native tooltip. So, unless MathJax was exclusively using just Unicode characters to implement the formatting (which isn't how MathJax works on SE), then it can not work. — Makyen just now

@AaronBertrand I find it interesting that there is -5 votes on this question. This could be the subject of another question (not going to do that), but I take it as people saying one should not ask for guidance on how to ask better questions. I think that is very counterproductive. — David Thielen 46 secs ago

@DavidThielen The downvotes on this question are because - as I mentioned - you asked it in the wrong place, hence it's not useful, as per the downvote tooltip. When you reposted it on MSO it was much more warmly received. — F1Krazy 16 secs ago

Hi jerry li, welcome to the Stack Exchange Network Meta site! I'm not sure which search brought you here but the problem you describe will not be answered on this specific site. To get an expert's answer for the topic of your question you'll have to find and then re-post on the proper site. Check How do I ask a good question and What is on topic on the target site to make sure your post is in good shape. Your question is definitely off-topic on Meta and is better deleted here. — rene 59 secs ago

Failed spam attempt, still spam. — Shadow Wizard Love Zelda 54 secs ago

What you try to test here, if I might ask? — Shadow Wizard Love Zelda 40 secs ago

Hi user24426409, welcome to the Stack Exchange Network Meta site! I'm not sure which search brought you here but the problem you describe will not be answered on this specific site. To get an expert's answer for the topic of your question you'll have to find and then re-post on the proper site. Check How do I ask a good question and What is on topic on the target site to make sure your post is in good shape. Your question is definitely off-topic on Meta and is better deleted here. — Journeyman Geek 37 secs ago

Hi Space Age Crystal, welcome to the Stack Exchange Network Meta site! I'm not sure which search brought you here but the problem you describe will not be answered on this specific site. To get an expert's answer for the topic of your question you'll have to find and then re-post on the proper site. Check How do I ask a good question and What is on topic on the target site to make sure your post is in good shape. Your question is definitely off-topic on Meta and is better deleted here. — Journeyman Geek 53 secs ago

Nothing. @ShadowWizardLoveZelda — The Empty String Photographer 24 secs ago

Hi No One, welcome to the Stack Exchange Network Meta site! I'm not sure which search brought you here but the problem you describe will not be answered on this specific site. To get an expert's answer for the topic of your question you'll have to find and then re-post on the proper site. Check How do I ask a good question and What is on topic on the target site to make sure your post is in good shape. Your question is definitely off-topic on Meta and is better deleted here. — rene 12 secs ago

MSE is also Meta Stack Exchange, aka this very site, so when here, at least, use the full name. — Shadow Wizard Love Zelda 49 secs ago

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda Thank you for pointing it out. I have made the changes. — Aarush Saharan 34 secs ago

Is there a feature that allows me to ask such questions while not disrupting the flow of the site? Use Chat: chat.stackexchange.com — rene 42 secs ago

Also, if you mean this only for Mathematics Stack Exchange it's off topic here and should be asked on the per site meta. — Shadow Wizard Love Zelda 52 secs ago

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda Please read the note — Aarush Saharan 57 secs ago

Well there's the chat then, as @rene mentioned, and there's also this popular request. — Shadow Wizard Love Zelda 47 secs ago

What kind of place are you looking for, Reddit? — Mast just now

Why is this closed and so heavily downvoted? It's perfectly clear and the answer is perfectly clear: 1) no, such sites don't exist; 2) You can get an X's perspective on a Y question if the Y question is on topic at site X, e.g. some "science from a philosophy perspective" questions may be on-topic under Philosophy's philosophy of science tag; or if you search "philosophy" on Physics you'll find some off-topic questions closed, and some on-topic and answered — user56reinstatemonica8 49 secs ago

...and, in general "...from an X perspective" questions tend not to be a great fit on SE because it's optimized for crisp objective questions getting objective answers from one community of experts that wouldn't vary by perspective (if the answer varies by perspective, it's likely more of a subjective forum discussion). But some sites support questions and sub-communities at the intersection with a related discipline, and there will usually be one or more tags for it (e.g. biology has various tags around psychology and behavior) — user56reinstatemonica8 26 secs ago

Your question here is unclear. Please edit to clarify. Your title says "discussion of non-question related topics", but also "that allows me to ask such questions". So, you're basically saying "How can I ask questions while not asking questions", which doesn't make sense. What I think you're asking is something along the lines of "How can I ask questions that are officially off-topic for the site I want to participate on, but that are still somewhat related to the general topic of that site?" — Makyen 38 secs ago

@F1Krazy That's a fair point — David Thielen 5 secs ago

@Makyen yes that is exactly what I wanted to ask. I will make the necessary changes. — Aarush Saharan 7 secs ago

OK, and? What about it? This might fit as comment, unless you have more details how it would be helpful, in what way it might be implemented in SE, etc. — Shadow Wizard Love Zelda 59 secs ago

The way it's written, it's spam and there's no way to argue against it because our goal here is to discuss only the workings and policies of company and the software that runs the SE Q&A network. — Augusto Vasques 25 secs ago

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda or FranckDernoncourt (can't @ mention two people in comments) glad to hear that it's working. Could you link me to one of the GIFs you uploaded so I can save it for future testing on our dev environments? — tanj92 33 secs ago

You're currently at meta.stackexchange.com, which is where you ask about Stack Exchange the network. If this is a programming question, it belongs on stackoverflow.com, although in its current form it's really had to follow what's wrong and how we'd reproduce it, and would likely be downvoted and closed in its current form. — George Stocker 42 secs ago

Hi FIMOTECH, welcome to the Stack Exchange Network Meta site! I'm not sure which search brought you here but the problem you describe will not be answered on this specific site. To get an expert's answer for the topic of your question you'll have to find and then re-post on the proper site. Check How do I ask a good question and What is on topic on the target site to make sure your post is in good shape. Your question is definitely off-topic on Meta and is better deleted here. — Spevacus 5 secs ago

Welcome to Meta SE. Some sites have chat room(s) which at least fairly closely approximate what you're looking for. Since you specifically mention Math SE, note there's the Mathematics chat room, with a description of "Associated with Math.SE; for both general discussion & math questions alike. Just ask; don't ask to ask. Rarely if ever expressible as a ratio of integers. Chat guidelines: tinyurl.com/hzl2955 | $\LaTeX$ in chat: tinyurl.com/cfqcvpc". I suggest you check this out to see how well it might work for you. — John Omielan 37 secs ago

That's why we have moderators. If you have a problem with what happened to that question, take it up on Cross Validated's Meta — Robert Longson 20 secs ago

@RobertLongson I understand that they can do whatever they want. My question is whether they should. — MWB 12 secs ago

As written, this is, effectively, a complaint about moderation on a single site. As such, it's off-topic here on Meta Stack Exchange, as it relates to a single site. To effectively discuss this specific moderation issue, you will need to bring up this issue in a question on the child meta site for the affected site: Cross Validated Meta. If your question really is "can moderators do that", then the answer is "yes". If your question is "should moderators do that", then it's an issue for your per-site meta, as it's an issue that will vary based on the moderation culture of the specific site. — Makyen 54 secs ago

@Makyen My question is "should they vote twice, canceling everyone else's opinion"? I don't think there's anything specific to stats.SE here. — MWB 7 secs ago

I voted to close, as this is effectively specific to stats.SE. However, in general, this is a relevant Meta SE post. The consensus is -> yes, moderators can and should vote to close. Particular issues with individual questions should be resolved on per-site Metas. — Anton Menshov 53 secs ago

I'd also suggest reading this, which explains how to reopen a question. The interesting informative bit applicable to this case is the last point of the answer, "Requesting on Meta to reopen". — Laf 14 secs ago

This already got closed as site-specific, but if I'd been able to vote to close, I'd have voted this as a duplicate of meta.stackexchange.com/q/144088/377214, which addresses this exact case. — Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog 33 secs ago

I uploaded the one in the question used as example, which failed as the OP said when I tested when bug was first reported. /cc @FranckDernoncourt — Shadow Wizard Love Zelda 41 secs ago

@ShadowWizardLoveZelda I used this one — Franck Dernoncourt just now

In what sense is Mastodon "somewhere on Stack Exchange"? — PM 2Ring 44 secs ago

Related: How do I get attention for a bug report or feature request that was deferred a long time ago? — Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog 17 secs ago

do you mean on canonical questions (I.e. the question that a duplicate question is closed as a duplicate of)? — starball just now

that's called merging. check your site meta for guidance on merging. Ex. on SO: meta.stackoverflow.com/q/312091/11107541 — starball 38 secs ago

@starball only in the sense that that canonical question might be improved by having the answer merged with it, as you pointed me to in your comment on my self-answer — Erin Anne 18 secs ago