Recent Questions - Meta Server Faultmost recent 30 from meta.serverfault.com2024-03-28T18:38:59Zhttps://meta.serverfault.com/feedshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/rdfhttps://meta.serverfault.com/q/99392How to enable dark mode in serverfaultNanihttps://meta.serverfault.com/users/10798532024-03-22T07:15:33Z2024-03-22T11:02:27Z
<p>I have been using stack overflow for a few months now, and I really enjoy the dark mode feature. I recently tried to find the same feature on serverfault, but I couldn't seem to find it. Does anyone know if there is a way to enable dark mode on serverfault?</p>
<p>Could someone please tell me how to activate dark mode here?</p>
https://meta.serverfault.com/q/99350SSL and TLS synonyms should be reversedmiken32https://meta.serverfault.com/users/1143412024-02-20T21:42:40Z2024-03-13T13:58:28Z
<p>I tagged my question <a href="https://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/tls" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'tls'" aria-label="show questions tagged 'tls'" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-tls-tooltip-container">tls</a> but it appears to be a synonym of <a href="https://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/ssl" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'ssl'" aria-label="show questions tagged 'ssl'" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-ssl-tooltip-container">ssl</a>. Considering TLS is over 25 years old and has long since replaced SSL, I think that <a href="https://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/ssl" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'ssl'" aria-label="show questions tagged 'ssl'" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-ssl-tooltip-container">ssl</a> should be a synonym of <a href="https://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/tls" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'tls'" aria-label="show questions tagged 'tls'" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-tls-tooltip-container">tls</a> and not the other way around.</p>
<p>If this were Super User I could see an argument being made that "SSL" is the more familiar phrase, but certainly system administrators should not be confused about what "TLS" is.</p>
https://meta.serverfault.com/q/9934-1Simple Question: are homelab questions are on topic for Serverfaultdjdomihttps://meta.serverfault.com/users/4438542024-02-17T11:36:20Z2024-03-01T12:27:18Z
<p>I'm noticing that more and more questions related to some home lab environment are appearing.</p>
<p>As I understand the rules, this is not on topic. And for fun fact, it appears that no one has asked this kind of question yet on meta?! ;)</p>
<p>Please let me know what you think about it.
And for the feature request, if its offtopic i suggest adding an option for closure.</p>
https://meta.serverfault.com/q/9930-4Answer to own questionsTurdiehttps://meta.serverfault.com/users/1459022024-01-31T04:48:55Z2024-01-31T09:52:12Z
<p>Can we please prevent that someone who asks a question can answer his own question?</p>
<p>A lot of workarounds get posted which are not ideal and may cause issues in the future</p>
https://meta.serverfault.com/q/99281Undelete a question deleted by the community botDario Seidlhttps://meta.serverfault.com/users/950202024-01-26T18:09:07Z2024-01-26T18:23:05Z
<p>I read the <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5221/how-does-deleting-work-what-can-cause-a-post-to-be-deleted-and-what-does-that">FAQ about deletions</a>, which suggests going to Meta for undeleting a question.</p>
<p>Last year, I asked a <a href="https://serverfault.com/questions/1117208/what-are-the-differences-between-the-migration-options-for-elastic-beanstalk-mul">question about migrating AWS elastic beanstalk environments</a>. It never received an answer or any upvotes, so it was deleted by the community bot. The question is still relevant to me, because I have to do that migration now. I don't have high hopes of receiving an answer, but I would like to give it another shot. I voted to undelete it. If you agree that it makes sense to undelete, could you vote for it too?</p>
<p>If I learn something interesting during the migration process, I could also then add it as an answer myself.</p>
https://meta.serverfault.com/q/99270Why is this question closed as off topic?Andrew Alexanderhttps://meta.serverfault.com/users/2008142024-01-26T02:32:47Z2024-01-26T02:32:47Z
<p><a href="https://serverfault.com/questions/1151107/trying-to-serve-iis-files-on-a-mac-iis-seems-to-see-directory-structure-but-no">Trying to serve IIS files on a Mac - IIS seems to see directory structure but not individual files</a></p>
<pre><code>reasonable information technology management practices
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<p>In the question, I am setting up a local instance of Classic ASP to migrate massively aging architecture. This is a <strong>good</strong> thing. There are plenty of companies on extreme legacy hardware that needs to be migrated, some of it Classic ASP, and for people that have to deal with the annoying task of rewriting old codebases, like myself right now - questions like this have utility.</p>
<p>I never, in the question, suggest running Classic ASP is a smart idea - I think it's a terrible idea, and I have told the company in question this in no uncertain terms, which is why they have hired me to migrate it. But I can't change the fact that that's what they're currently running, or that I need to run Classic ASP locally temporarily to ensure that the migration is correct and doing everything the old code did.</p>
https://meta.serverfault.com/q/992632023: a year in moderationJNathttps://meta.serverfault.com/users/2642072024-01-24T18:28:43Z2024-02-03T13:36:33Z
<p>It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have <a href="https://meta.serverfault.com/search?q=%22year+in+moderation%22+is%3Aquestion">a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year</a>.</p>
<p>As most of you here might be aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network are moderated somewhat differently to other sites on the web:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in that we amortize the overall moderation cost of the system across thousands of teeny-tiny slices of effort contributed by regular, everyday users.<br />
-- <a href="http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/">A Theory of Moderation</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p>That doesn't eliminate the need for having <a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/11/21/our-theory-of-moderation-re-visited/">moderators</a> altogether, but it does mean that the bulk of moderation work is carried out by regular folks — folks like you. Every bit of time and effort y'all contribute to the site gives you access to more privileges you can use to help in this effort, all of which produce a cumulative effect that makes a big difference in ensuring Stack Exchange sites remain a valuable source of high-quality content on the web.</p>
<p>So as we say goodbye to 2023 (and January 2024… ahem) and move into 2024, let us look back at what we accomplished as a community... by looking at some <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/pmN7M.gif" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><em>exciting</em> stats</a>. Below is a breakdown of moderation actions performed on Server Fault over the past 12 months:</p>
<div class="s-table-container">
<table class="s-table">
<thead>
<tr>
<th style="text-align: left;">Action</th>
<th style="text-align: right;">Moderators</th>
<th style="text-align: right;">Community User¹</th>
<th style="text-align: right;">Community²</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">All comments on a post moved to chat</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">1</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">Answer flags handled</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">2,399</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">4,770</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">Answers flagged</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">219</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">873</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">6,047</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">Bounties canceled</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">1</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">Comment flags handled</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">519</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">1,336</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">11</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">Comments deleted⁸</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">852</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">2,168</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">2,452</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">Comments flagged</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">1</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">3</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">1,856</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">Comments undeleted</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">7</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">Escalations to the Community Manager team</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">2</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">Posts bumped</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">4,181</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">Posts deleted⁷</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">1,086</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">10,571</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">1,884</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">Posts locked</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">1</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">4,839</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">Posts undeleted</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">55</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">144</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">Posts unlocked</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">36</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">Question flags handled⁶</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">1,846</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">17,069</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">376</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">Questions closed</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">166</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">1,493</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">Questions flagged⁶</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">396</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">21</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">18,869</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">Questions merged</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">Questions migrated</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">21</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">210</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">Questions protected</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">2</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">161</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">327</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">Questions reopened</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">9</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">1</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">Questions unprotected</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">Revisions redacted</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">6</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">Tag highlight language set</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">Tag synonyms created</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">2</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">Tag synonyms proposed</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">2</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">Tags merged</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">2</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">Tasks reviewed⁵: "Close votes" queue</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">60</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">1,130</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">Tasks reviewed⁵: "First answers" queue</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">1,061</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">Tasks reviewed⁵: "First questions" queue</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">1,015</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">Tasks reviewed⁵: "Late answers" queue</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">45</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">713</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">Tasks reviewed⁵: "Low quality posts" queue</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">101</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">743</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">Tasks reviewed⁵: "Reopen votes" queue</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">25</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">90</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">Tasks reviewed⁵: "Suggested edits" queue</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">713</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">182</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">2,179</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">Tasks reviewed⁵: "Triage" queue</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">User banned from review</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">User review-bans lifted early</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">User suspensions lifted early</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">2</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">Users contacted</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">23</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">Users deleted</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">416</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">Users destroyed⁴</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">599</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="text-align: left;">Users suspended³</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">21</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">472</td>
<td style="text-align: right;">0</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div><h3>Footnotes</h3>
<p>¹ This refers to the automated systems otherwise known as <a href="https://serverfault.com/users/-1">user #-1</a>.</p>
<p>² This refers to <a href="https://serverfault.com/users">the membership of Server Fault</a> <em>without</em> <a href="https://serverfault.com/users?tab=moderators">diamonds next to their names</a>.</p>
<p>³ The system will suspend users under three circumstances: when a user is recreated after being previously suspended, when a user is recreated after being destroyed for spam or abuse, and when a network-wide suspension is in effect on an account.</p>
<p>⁴ A "destroyed" user is deleted along with all that they had posted: questions, answers, comments. <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/88994/what-is-the-difference-between-a-deleted-user-and-a-destroyed-user">Generally used as an expedient way of getting rid of spam.</a></p>
<p>⁵ This counts every review that was submitted (not skipped) - so the 2 suggested edits reviews needed to approve an edit would count as 2, the goal being to indicate the frequency of moderation actions. This also applies to flags, etc.</p>
<p>⁶ Includes close flags (but <em>not</em> close or reopen votes). The community² can handle these flags by at least one person voting to close a question that has a close flag.</p>
<p>⁷ This ignores numerous deletions that happen automatically in response to some other action.</p>
<p>⁸ This includes comments deleted by their own authors (which also account for some number of handled comment flags).</p>
<h3>Further reading:</h3>
<ul>
<li><p>Wanna see how these numbers have changed over time? We posted a similar report here last year: <a href="https://meta.serverfault.com/questions/9854/2022-a-year-in-moderation">2022: a year in moderation</a></p>
</li>
<li><p>You can also check out <a href="https://stackexchange.com/search?q=title%3A%222023%3A+a+year+in+moderation%22">this report on other sites</a></p>
</li>
<li><p>Or peruse <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/396299/208518">detailed information on the number of questions closed and reopened across all sites</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Wishing everyone a happy 2024! ^_^</p>
https://meta.serverfault.com/q/99231Low effort questions with lack of basic troubleshootingTurdiehttps://meta.serverfault.com/users/1459022024-01-20T00:31:57Z2024-01-22T00:35:52Z
<p>I have been active trying to help people here on serverfault and have been in IT for 15 years, and it's a problem on a lot of communities. But it would be great if we could provide feedback with something lacks basic troubleshooting and with a link to a faq article for basic troubleshooting</p>
https://meta.serverfault.com/q/99214Google Cloud will be Sponsoring Server Fault SESashahttps://meta.serverfault.com/users/10043812024-01-02T19:58:38Z2024-03-21T20:12:04Z
<h2>Update on March 21, 2024</h2>
<p>This site sponsorship has been extended through June 30th.</p>
<hr />
<h2>Update on January 24, 2024</h2>
<p>This site sponsorship is now only visible to users in the US and Canada, due to the sponsor’s preference.</p>
<hr />
<p>We're excited to announce that Google will be sponsoring Server Fault Stack Exchange beginning January 9th, going through March 31st. We wanted to give you a heads-up and walk you through what it will look like.</p>
<h2>How and where will the sponsorship be displayed?</h2>
<p>The sponsorship will be shown on the right side of the header at the top of the site in a manner that's similar to the mockup below:</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/gMWCf.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/gMWCf.png" alt="image of Server Fault SE home page with Google Cloud sponsorship logo in top right" /></a></p>
<h2>What else changes?</h2>
<p>Nothing! Quoting from <a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/307861/site-sponsorships-bringing-resources-back-to-stack-exchange">the original MSE announcement on sponsorships</a>:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>First — sponsors do not own these Q&A sites. Sponsors work alongside our communities who ultimately build these sites. Communities ask the questions; communities create the tags; communities conduct elections as they do now, and we are not renaming our current sites like a garish sport stadium to the highest bidder. Any ads a sponsor submits still have go through our crazy-strict ad editorial process… as it has always been. Companies do not have access to personal data, and all Q&A content remains irrevocably licensed under Creative Commons for sharing and attribution.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Sponsorships are a tool that our clients can use to let folks who would be interested in their products know about them.</p>
<h2>What if I think I've found a design glitch/bug?</h2>
<p>If something looks off, please report it as a <a href="https://meta.serverfault.com/questions/tagged/bug" title="show questions tagged 'bug'">bug</a> so we can investigate and squash it.</p>
<p>That's it! If you have any other questions or concerns, please leave them as answers below.</p>
<p>And lastly, thank you. These types of partnerships help us bring more resources to our communities, and they wouldn't be possible without the work you've put into making this site successful.</p>
https://meta.serverfault.com/q/99180Why was my question closed as opinion-based?RuRohttps://meta.serverfault.com/users/5306602023-12-27T11:44:31Z2023-12-30T16:43:31Z
<p>My <a href="https://serverfault.com/questions/1150338/how-does-edge-computing-actually-work">question about edge computing</a> was closed as opinion-based.</p>
<p>Here is the relevant help page:</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Opinion-based</strong> - Discussions focused on diverse opinions can be great, but they just don't fit our format well.</p>
<blockquote>
<p>This question is likely to be answered with opinions rather than facts and citations. It should be updated so it will lead to fact-based answers.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>It’s often possible to rewrite opinion-based questions to focus on a more fact-based line of questioning. If you see a way to do this, consider editing the question.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I don't see, how this applies to my question. I am not asking for personal opinions, I am interested in purely factual information about the real world implementation details of this approach to internet infrastructure.</p>
<p>If my question is actually opinion-based, please explain how so.</p>
<p>If it is not, I would like to know if the question can be reopened.</p>
https://meta.serverfault.com/q/99172Please make a better contrast between plain text and visited linksSnack Exchangehttps://meta.serverfault.com/users/6004322023-11-30T20:35:26Z2023-11-30T23:34:13Z
<p>I touched on a link on the main site and it became darker. But I found it very similar to plain text. Some eyes really feel them the same.</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/6WU53.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/6WU53.jpg" alt="colors" /></a></p>
<p>In fact, the color of plain text is #0B0D0F and for the visited links it is #3E0E0E.</p>
<p>Being underlined doesn't necessarily mean the word(s) are links. This is obviously a link (in the picture), but it could have been just a single word.</p>
https://meta.serverfault.com/q/99160My question got closed but I don't really understand whyScooptahttps://meta.serverfault.com/users/10342612023-11-06T19:47:00Z2023-11-06T19:52:24Z
<p>I asked this question a few days ago and it got closed by someone from the comment section because I apparently "left out relevant details." I disagree on the relevance of the details but that's not really important. I went ahead and added the details he felt were missing to the question because ultimately if someone responding to my question feels like details are lacking I'm more than willing to improve upon them. The reason for the closure is "off-topic" but as far as I can tell that's not the case? I guess I'm just trying to figure out what I did wrong as I've had quite a few closures on server fault when I typically have much better luck on other stack exchange websites and I'd like to understand where I'm going wrong here. <a href="https://serverfault.com/questions/1147221/isc-bind-bind-to-non-local-ip">ISC Bind bind to non-local IP</a></p>
https://meta.serverfault.com/q/99121I asked a question for my work. Is this not 'managing information technology systems in a business environment'?ᴍᴇʜᴏᴠhttps://meta.serverfault.com/users/915322023-11-03T13:21:48Z2023-11-04T22:03:34Z
<p>So I asked this question about a system I use for work: <a href="https://serverfault.com/questions/1147130/wget-and-curl-complain-about-expired-ceritificate-but-its-not-expired">Wget and Curl complain about expired ceritificate, but it's not expired?</a></p>
<p>It got closed with the following reason:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Questions on Server Fault must be about managing information technology systems in a business environment. Home and end-user computing questions may be asked on Super User, and questions about development, testing and development tools may be asked on Stack Overflow.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Apparently, enough people agreed on this before it actually got closed, but it doesn't make sense for me.</p>
<p>Why is it not 'business environment'? What is 'business environment'?</p>
<p>What if I'm an entrepreneur working from home?</p>
<p>The suggestion to move it to other sites does not make sense either:</p>
<ul>
<li>super user is for <em>users</em>, I highly doubt I would get help debugging <code>ca-certificates</code> with regards to DST Root CA X3 Expiration there</li>
<li>stack overflow is for programming, while my question is 0% programming</li>
</ul>
<p>Could someone please explain?</p>
https://meta.serverfault.com/q/99051How can I move a stackexchange entry to another stackexchange server?Paulhttps://meta.serverfault.com/users/6016202023-09-07T00:31:44Z2023-09-12T22:22:16Z
<p>I see many excellent questions with excellent answers that are closed because the question was asked on the wrong server.</p>
<p>For example: A question was posted on stackexchange.com, but should have been posted on superuser.com.</p>
<p>Is there a way to move the question and all of it's answers to a different site to fix this problem, remove the clutter, and accept more answers?</p>
https://meta.serverfault.com/q/99041Why is the question about Nginx, MySQL and Wordpress is off-topic?Alekseyhttps://meta.serverfault.com/users/10360802023-07-31T11:17:55Z2023-07-31T11:17:55Z
<p>I have a question about my Server Fault post: <a href="https://serverfault.com/questions/1139968/wordpress-via-3-php-versions">Wordpress via 3 PHP versions</a></p>
<p>Is here a place I'm able to ask questions about servers' software?
I thought the questions about installing Wordpress and needed Nginx, MySQL and PHP for it work is</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>managing the</strong> hardware or <strong>software of servers</strong>, workstations, storage or networks</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Isn't it?</p>
<p>Do Serverfault based more on questions about machine hardware and common software?</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Like home Minecraft server.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Example: If I want to get answer to my question I need to go to Stackexchange?</p>
https://meta.serverfault.com/q/9902-4Problems with low-traffic Stack Exchange sitesArunabh Bhattacharyahttps://meta.serverfault.com/users/6186562023-07-29T20:44:26Z2023-08-12T14:03:41Z
<p>There seems to be several issues with some Stack Exchange sites. There is very low traffic in the sites, and question I ask are often deterred.</p>
<p>For one example, take a look at the <a href="https://math.stackexchange.com/">https://math.stackexchange.com/</a> site. Every question that I have asked on that site has been closed and deleted. And I tried asking on <a href="https://math.meta.stackexchange.com">https://math.meta.stackexchange.com</a>. Even those questions were closed and deleted.</p>
<p>If you need another example, take a look at the <a href="https://cooking.stackexchange.com/">https://cooking.stackexchange.com/</a> site. One question that I have asked has 1 answer, but it gets closed as needing details of clarity. I expand the question, and resubmit it to the reopen review queue. I also ask on <a href="https://cooking.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/3817/question-about-pizza-dough">meta</a>. The question has remained unanswered for almost a month. And later the parent question gets deleted by the community. and I vote to undelete the question.</p>
<p>Last week I have set a bounty in one question question on the <a href="https://psychology.stackexchange.com/">https://psychology.stackexchange.com/</a> site. I will copy and paste the question text here:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Twin studies were used in behavioral genetics research to understand the relative contributions of genetic and environmental factors to various traits and behaviors. IQ, or intelligence quotient is studied using twin designs.</p>
<p>Research using twin designs has consistently found IQ to be highly heritable, with estimates typically in the 50-80% range, depending on the specific population and the methods used. This suggests that genetic factors play an important role in determining individual differences in IQ. However, heritability estimation does not provide information about the specific genes involved or the mechanisms by which they contribute to IQ. One of the ethical concerns that I think apply to this type of study is the potential psychological harm that could result from discovering someone's twin later in life, especially if their life experiences had changed. Another ethical concern is the possible violation of privacy or confidentiality, as some twins or their adoptive families might not want to be contacted or identified by the researchers or the media. A third ethical concern is the potential bias or coercion that could affect participation or responses of the twins, as they might be driven to conform to certain expectations or stereotypes about twins or intelligence. These were some of the issues that I think should be considered when conducting or evaluating twin studies on IQ.</p>
<p>How can a researcher take into consideration the ethical concerns related to twin studies?</p>
<p>Sources:</p>
<p>Joseph, J. (2022). A Reevaluation of the 1990 “Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart” IQ Study. Human Development, 66(1), 48–65. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1159/000521922" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://doi.org/10.1159/000521922</a></p>
<p>Kelmenson, A., & Klitzman, R. (2020). Experiment on identical siblings separated at birth: Ethical implications for researchers, universities and archives today. Journal of Medical Ethics blog. <a href="https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2020/05/11/experiment-on-identical-siblings-separated-at-birth-ethical-implications-for-researchers-universities-and-archives-today/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://blogs.bmj.com/medical-ethics/2020/05/11/experiment-on-identical-siblings-separated-at-birth-ethical-implications-for-researchers-universities-and-archives-today/</a></p>
<p>Molwickpedia. (n.d.). Non-identical and identical twin studies on IQ. <a href="https://molwick.com/en/intelligence/055-twins-brothers.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://molwick.com/en/intelligence/055-twins-brothers.html</a></p>
<p>Themantic Education. (2019). Key Study: The Minnesota Twin Study of Twins Reared Apart. <a href="https://www.themantic-education.com/ibpsych/2019/02/11/key-study-the-minnesota-twin-study-of-twins-reared-apart/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.themantic-education.com/ibpsych/2019/02/11/key-study-the-minnesota-twin-study-of-twins-reared-apart/</a></p>
<p>Note: Hopefully someone will answer this question before the bounty expires. If any improvement is required, I expect other users to suggest improvements, not to close the question.</p>
<p>One hour is left now. I hope someone will answer the question now.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>This question has started with two upvotes, but after setting the bounty to the question, one of the mods has said to be more specific. I have made an edit after that. Then one of the users has asked me to add what ethical concerns I think apply here. Then I make more edits to the question. The current version of the question is quoted above. But the bounty has failed without any answer. So, I have deleted the question for now to deal with it later.</p>
<p>The overall issue is the traffic of these Stack Exchange sites. Since this site has higher traffic than the other sites, I have decided to ask for advice here. How do I deal with these low-traffic sites?</p>
https://meta.serverfault.com/q/99006Why can't we black list questions with description contain mobile number and string loans?asktyagihttps://meta.serverfault.com/users/5211942023-07-22T04:14:45Z2023-07-23T02:33:07Z
<p>As we seeing lots of spam why can't we black list questions with description contain mobile number and string "loans" combo in this platform?</p>
https://meta.serverfault.com/q/98980Why is this question off-topic?Evan Carrollhttps://meta.serverfault.com/users/188222023-07-13T20:25:38Z2023-07-13T21:19:25Z
<p>I was looking at this question which is historic but massively upvoted, and I don't understand why it's off topic.</p>
<p><a href="https://serverfault.com/q/13839/18822">Does orientation affect hard drive lifespan?</a></p>
<p>Mounting hard drives would seem to be very much on topic here,https://serverfault.com/help/on-topic</p>
<blockquote>
<p>If your question is about:</p>
<p>managing the hardware or software of servers, workstations, storage or networks</p>
</blockquote>
<p>I don't see any indication that anything about that question is prohibited or that the question is otherwise unclear.</p>
<p>Moreover, the question doesn't even seem basic to me: do drives having dampening mechanisms that require a specific orientation? Does drive orientation affect heat dissipation? etc. etc.</p>
https://meta.serverfault.com/q/98960Is it "a .ear file" or "an .ear file"?Paulhttps://meta.serverfault.com/users/1531882023-07-06T12:02:40Z2023-07-11T18:05:33Z
<p>For the question currently titled "<a href="https://serverfault.com/questions/1135880/how-to-deploy-an-ear-file-in-glassfish">How to deploy an .ear file in glassfish?</a>", is it "a .ear file" (a dot-ear file) or "an .ear file" (an ear file)? Because it certainly can't be "an dot-ear file".</p>
https://meta.serverfault.com/q/98940Is this haproxy question appropriate for serverfault?Matthttps://meta.serverfault.com/users/1640182023-06-26T01:05:59Z2023-06-28T07:05:15Z
<p>Does this question meet the criteria for on topic for SF? It <em>is</em> home networking but with enterprise hardware and software so it felt like it was blurring the lines as I typed it out but I was curious to get a read from the crowd.</p>
<p><a href="https://serverfault.com/questions/1134840/how-can-i-get-haproxy-to-completely-ignore-ssl-handshake-errors">How can I get haproxy to completely ignore SSL handshake errors?</a></p>
<p>Thank you</p>
https://meta.serverfault.com/q/98930Should we have a Slack tag?chickshttps://meta.serverfault.com/users/2055422023-06-20T18:06:25Z2023-09-27T15:45:07Z
<p>Questions like <a href="https://serverfault.com/questions/1134219/setting-up-slack-alerts-for-monit-monitoring-mysql">this one</a> seem to be missing a "Slack" tag because we don't have a <a href="https://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/slack" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'slack'" aria-label="show questions tagged 'slack'" rel="tag" aria-labelledby="tag-slack-tooltip-container">slack</a> tag on ServerFault. This would be a logical addition to our tags since it is commonly used in many IT shops these days. Getting alerts in Slack seems like it fits with best practices used in commercial environments. Are there any guidelines that this tag wouldn't pass?</p>
https://meta.serverfault.com/q/988921Massive Spam Attacks since couple of daysdjdomihttps://meta.serverfault.com/users/4438542023-06-13T04:24:26Z2023-07-08T09:45:40Z
<p>It seems that</p>
<p><a href="https://serverfault.com/search?q=loan+number">https://serverfault.com/search?q=loan+number</a></p>
<p>My first page on ServerFault looks like</p>
<p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/8GY1s.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/8GY1s.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a>
gets a lot of hits for the same spam type, and I'm already hitting the flag limits what could be done other than that</p>
<p>I also researched some similar <a href="https://meta.serverfault.com/search?q=spam">https://meta.serverfault.com/search?q=spam</a>, but my question regards is the spam protection that was suggested in 2010 is still alive. Because it feels not like it?</p>
<p>Is there maybe a better way to forward such information?
I mean, I understand the normal way of flagging an individual post, but can I also flag a user for a faster intervention or is there a shortcut to a chat or similar, I also understand that it's an ongoing process but shutting down a tool that prevents it.</p>
<p>I aint talk about how "my" start page is gonna spammed, I wanna discuss this in a general way</p>
<p>and as I have been working quite a while on my systems for spam prevention, most interaction has some similar kind, like the same ip, range, or repeating words ;-)</p>
https://meta.serverfault.com/q/988349Labor action noticesysadmin1138https://meta.serverfault.com/users/30382023-06-05T00:00:11Z2023-08-29T00:54:16Z
<p>Today, 5th June, is the beginning of a strike by many StackExchange moderators over the recent policy announcement by StackExchange staff around handling AI and Large Language Model (LLM) generated content. You can read the strike announcement yourself at: <a href="https://openletter.mousetail.nl/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://openletter.mousetail.nl/</a> plus another detailed take at <a href="https://jlericson.com/2023/06/04/signing_on.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://jlericson.com/2023/06/04/signing_on.html</a></p>
<p>For those who have not heard of this policy change—or don't want to click the link—the StackExchange staff announced that the use of AI-detection tooling to identify AI/LLM generated content for the purposes of deletion/bannning is now banned. Their justification for this move is two-fold:</p>
<ul>
<li>After testing, they've found these tools have a quite high false positive rate. Possibly up to 30%.</li>
<li>These tools disproportionately affect people for whom English is a second language. AI/LLMs let them turn broken English into grammatical English, at the cost of now failing an AI/LLM detector.</li>
</ul>
<p>The strikers argue that this cost is justified given the unique threat that AI/LLM represents to question and answer sites like ours.</p>
<ul>
<li>We've already seen spammers use these tools to provide an actual-answer seeming post with a spam link in it.</li>
<li>The setup of the StackExchange sites is well suited to provide human qualilty-assurance for AI/LLM generated content, and that's not why we're here.</li>
<li>AI/LLM content can be created far faster than humans can audit them, even if that was a role we were interested in.</li>
<li>For sites with far more community than we've had in the last few years, a deluge of AI/LLM content will break that community.</li>
</ul>
<p>The strikers will be ceasing moderation activities until this policy is reversed. Also of note, this includes halting the SmokeDetector anti-spam bot. Since late February, ServerFault has been under heavy attack by a group of pirate stream spammers. Most people haven't seen them because SmokeDetector spam-flags them out of existence within 5 minutes in most cases. With the SmokeDetector turned off, you will begin to see this traffic.</p>
<p>I will be respecting this picket line.</p>
https://meta.serverfault.com/q/988011Homepage spammedStarship - On Strikehttps://meta.serverfault.com/users/10257652023-06-02T00:28:46Z2023-06-02T11:53:19Z
<p>Today, I saw a ton of posts by a ton of different account advertising the NBA. They completly filled the homepage and used up all my flags. What happened and how can this be prevented, since this has been going on for several hours and prevents the use of this site.</p>
https://meta.serverfault.com/q/987611Stack Overflow Inc. changes policy regarding enforcement of AI-Generated postsWard - Trying Codidacthttps://meta.serverfault.com/users/61772023-05-30T20:18:22Z2023-06-06T08:30:04Z
<p>As per this post:</p>
<p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/389582/what-is-the-network-policy-regarding-ai-generated-content">What is the network policy regarding AI Generated content?</a></p>
<p>Although the guidance given in this public post is somewhat different from what was discussed a day earlier in a private moderator-only post, the effective policy is basically the same:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Moderators on all SE sites are no longer allowed to take action on posts based on the fact that they <em>seem</em> to have been generated by an AI. If a post matches certain AI patterns or if it is identified as AI-generated by various tools, that is not enough to warrant any moderator action.</p>
</li>
<li><p>To be clear: AI-generated posts are allowed, as long as they meet other post guidelines (e.g. for quality).</p>
</li>
<li><p>"Bad" AI-generated posts can still be moderated in the same ways as any other bad posts, but as a practical matter, that type of moderation will be minimal due to the overall limited amount of moderation that occurs on Server Fault.</p>
</li>
</ul>
https://meta.serverfault.com/q/9874-1Explanation of closed postsSabrehttps://meta.serverfault.com/users/1061162023-05-27T15:38:24Z2023-05-28T15:05:19Z
<p>I have question I asked on <em>[server fault <-mistake on my part, long day]</em> <strong>StackOverflow</strong>, it was originally locked by mods asking for debugging details. I <em>thought</em> I had explained the issue fairly well. So I edited the post to add the code I had tried, examples of what did not work, and what did. I replied to comments for clarification, been one that seemed to be traveling in the correct direction. Question was on UI automation, nothing sketchy or malicious about it.</p>
<p>Question was abruptly deleted. I mean that's cool and all, but with no PM system, I have no idea why. And no idea how to find out why. There were reference links to "debugging information" that seems to me that I satisfied.</p>
<p>Not really challenging it being deleted, I can only assume there <em>were</em> reasons, but if users have no way to get clarification or explanation, how do we expect that they will not keep repeating the mistake? OR just go to other sites because it makes no sense to them? Is the whole community just "RTFM, and if anything does not make sense, tough luck buddy?"</p>
https://meta.serverfault.com/q/98702Found useful info on a post closed as "too narrow/restricted". Is that Ok?jmulleehttps://meta.serverfault.com/users/4162302023-05-09T12:59:23Z2023-05-09T14:41:56Z
<p>It says "This question is unlikely to help any future visitors; it is only relevant to a small geographic area, a specific moment in time, or an extraordinarily narrow situation that is not generally applicable to the worldwide audience of the internet. For help making this question more broadly applicable, visit the help center.
Closed 10 years ago."</p>
<p><a href="https://serverfault.com/questions/482319/how-can-systemd-run-a-command-as-root-before-launching-a-service-as-a-different">How can systemd run a command as root before launching a service as a different user?</a></p>
<p>However, I found useful-to-me information on running commands as root before starting a service running as a less-privileed user.</p>
<p>The OP wanted to create directories for subversion, and finds out about systemd tmpfiles.</p>
<p>But I found out about "ExecStartPre=+" which solved by usecase of firewall adjustment as root before launcing a service.</p>
https://meta.serverfault.com/q/98663Why doesn't ServerFault allow questions about unsupported hardware/software platforms?9072997https://meta.serverfault.com/users/4501132023-05-02T20:51:55Z2023-05-12T12:00:09Z
<p>I ran across a question today with the following close reason:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Questions should demonstrate reasonable business information
technology management practices. Questions that relate to unsupported
hardware or software platforms or unmaintained environments may not be
suitable for Server Fault</p>
</blockquote>
<p>With the particular question I was looking at, I think it was more about "reasonable" practices (and I will try to keep my opinions to myself on that point), but it got me thinking: What is the rational for not allowing questions about unsupported platforms? It's been my experience that a big part of being an IT professional is dealing with old stuff. ServerFault has helped me a time or two when some content locked behind a sevice contract seemingly vanished from the internet. Additionally, it seems like this policy would be a problem for existing questions whenever a platform reaches end-of-life or a company goes out of business.</p>
https://meta.serverfault.com/q/984510ChatGPT answers not permittedWard - Trying Codidacthttps://meta.serverfault.com/users/61772023-01-08T06:40:04Z2023-05-19T16:11:07Z
<p>I am posting this as a new policy for ServerFault, but it has not yet been discussed among users or moderators of the site. It is a starting point for a policy, I fully expect it to evolve based on discussion here.</p>
<p>But as far as I'm concerned, answers generated by an AI such as ChatGPT are not appropriate here and will be dealt with <em>expeditiously:</em> answers will be deleted and accounts will be suspended.</p>
<p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/384396/ban-chatgpt-network-wide?r=SearchResults&s=12%7C0.0000">Discussion on meta.SE about this.</a></p>
<p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/384922/is-there-a-list-of-chatgpt-discussions-and-policies-for-our-sites">Master list of policies on various SE sites.</a></p>
<p><a href="https://meta.stackexchange.com/search?tab=newest&q=chatgpt%20is%3Aquestion">Other recent questions about ChatGPT on meta.SE</a></p>
<p>I don't have - and I don't think the other moderators have - a lot of time to investigate possible AI posts, but at this point there are two signs that seem pretty reliable and will be used to decide if action is needed:</p>
<ul>
<li>multiple posts, fairly lengthy, often on disparate subjects, in a short period of time</li>
<li>a positive score on one or both of <a href="https://openai-openai-detector.hf.space/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this AI detector from OpenAI</a> or this <a href="https://www.zerogpt.com/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">other detector from ZeroGPT.</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Depending on how discussion on this post goes, moderators will be enforcing this policy when AI generated posts are detected - if you see posts that seem to fit, flag them and moderators will check, delete answers, and suspend accounts.</p>
https://meta.serverfault.com/q/80477Should spam flag have optional hidden comment?Esa Jokinenhttps://meta.serverfault.com/users/2741762015-04-04T21:57:05Z2023-06-18T07:24:20Z
<p>When flagging a post spam because of a single URL considered as spam it may be challenging to find the reason for flag, if the post otherwise is well formed.</p>
<p>For example there seems to be a user creating new accounts and promoting his site. The questions are somewhat related but when you access the link, the site doesn't seem to have the problems mentioned at all. Closer look reveals that the site is for downloading pirated software (or maybe something worse masked to be just that).</p>
<p>Should it be added as a public comment or should there be either optional or even mandatory explanation field on this flag type?</p>