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Destroy tag 2003

Up until a few moments ago there were three questions tagged 2003. Now there are none. I can't image any reason to have tags consisting of just years, so can it please be destroyed?
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Vote: What level of automatic code highlighting do we want?

Now that have code highlighting enabled, we need to determine how 'automatic' it should be. The code highlighting engine works in two ways: Automatic inference of the language in use via the tags ...
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Voting on the FAQ rewrite, round 2

After a successful edit round, it is time to vote on the results. The text below is the edited text we've worked on for the past week. This will be open until UTC 0:00 Friday (3 days!) to gather ...
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Why in the world was this automatically bumped?

This question was apparently automatically bumped to the front page. But the last activity it received was back in 2010. Furthermore, its off topic. How has it survived for this long? But more ...
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Serverfault, superuser, or nowhere?

I have a question that I'd like to post, which is entirely business related, which concerns connecting a home worker to a corporate network using an ADSL router with a VPN client built in to it. The ...
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What editing guideline did I violate by adding a fitting tag?

I added the "backuppc" tag to an old question about a specific BackupPC setting here: http://serverfault.com/suggested-edits/5138 This got rejected by user Chris S. What guideline did I violate with ...
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lost user + how to get my user back in serverfault site

please advice I ask this question shell script (KSH) + set file to param & perform test between param and string but from some reason my user not apears in the serverfault site so I cant back ...
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is it legal for another site to skim the serverfault feed

I was doing a google search on something and found the Admin's Goodies site seems to be a live (not from the quarterly creative-commons dump, there are items less than a day old) feed of answered SF ...
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1answer
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Rename [route53] to [amazon-route53]

All the other tags that fall under the Amazon Web Services umbrella follow the convention of starting with 'amazon-', this appears to be the only remaining exception. As per Amazon's description: ...
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No prominent links to the ServerFault blog?

Trying to find the ServerFault blog, I had to go through: one of the "blog" links at the top/bottom of the page, http://blog.stackexchange.com/ from the sidebar there, http://blogoverflow.com/ and ...
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Theoretical Questions

What's the communities view on questions of a theoretical nature, I.E. things/situations that would never happen in real life but are still quite interesting. Of course, this would only reffer to ...
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1answer
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Have some tag wiki gone missing?

I could have sworn I got reputation for the dfsr tag wiki and dfsr was merged with dfs-r recently too. Now the tag appears empty. I also believe the Kerberos tag had data but now doesn't. I have ...
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FAQ Rewrite edit round 1

Since the FAQ as-written was not accepted, we get to have an edit round. The below is a grammar/spelling/punctuation checked version of the FAQ. The edit process: Proposed edits will be submitted ...
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Question that cannot be answered?

Can I have a question closed, or should I move it to community wiki, or...what's the best practice? Specifically Windows Update not working on Windows Server 2008 R2, simply because there is no way ...
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1answer
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What's wrong with my question concerning VMware?

My latest question has been closed as off topic. I've read the FAQ and am quite sure my question was both practical and answerable (indeed it was answered and the answer solved the problem). I thought ...
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Guidelines for question migration

Being new to the toolbox, I can't help noticing that apparently some work is spent on raising old dust. Lately I've seen migrations of posts from 2009 (1, 2) to SuperUser despite of the apparent ...
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2answers
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Changes in “Human Detection” algorithm?

I've posted answers from my mobile phone (iPhone 4S) fairly regularly over the past three months. In the past week, though, I've gotten the CAPTCHA on nearly every single answer I've posted from my ...
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1answer
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Can't vote again if previous vote has expired?

I just came across this question, which in my opinion is pure programming and therefore belongs on SO. I went to vote accordingly and was informed that I had already voted on it, even though it shows ...
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Is it possible to make a post “sticky”?

From time to time things with a higher than normal level of importance and/or time sensitivity get posted here. e.g. The election and FAQ discussion. On a BBS such things would be made sticky to ...
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Voting on the FAQ rewrite

The FAQ is a very, very important document. It forms the topical-foundation of ServerFault in the way that a constitution forms the foundation of a country's legal system. Because of this, changes to ...
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Question migrated to superuser and then deleted

Why was the question How to access setup of this router? migrated to super user? I mean, doesn’t network equipment belong here? EDIT: The question was closed as offtopic at superuser, and then ...
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1answer
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Can someone tell me why this question is voted to be closed?

How to create my own SSL proxy? I'm sorry I asked the question as I thought it was related to SERVER, because I thought I should install some software package such as Squid or something on my VPS ...
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1answer
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The cleanup of old, bad questions is costing me votes!

At least, I think it's costing me votes. My understanding is that when questions are deleted, votes cast on the Q or any As are taken out of a person's vote counts. That's actually not a terrible ...
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1answer
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Why was my question regarding creating an Archlinux AMI closed as not constructive?

Creating an ArchLinux AMI I would like to know why my question isn't constructive, is it the way I worded my question? Did I forget details I should have added? Or is it something else I did wrong? ...
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Reducing new users asking off topic questions

With reference to the proposed FAQ changes, I notice that more subjects have been added to the off topic section. As we know, many new users never read the FAQ, this is more than apparent by some of ...
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Should git questions be asked here [closed]

Possible Duplicate: What is the correct site for Version Control questions Wouldn't they be more appropriate on StackOverflow unless they pertain to maintaining a git server? How to tell ...
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Let's put [version] in a rocket and send it to the Sun

version seems like a worthless tag. Let's kill it. Ya dig?
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Some more tag maintenance

These can (and should) probably be nuked: oddities, down, up, free-hosting, cheap-hosting, what-is.
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1answer
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Is it hard to figure out why some questions are highlighted?

Or am I an idiot? The highlighted questions were the only thing I had trouble immediately figuring out on the SF GUI. For ages I thought they were questions I had viewed, then no, maybe answered? ...
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Where to ask question about getting DNS/MX issues fixed due to Heroku/Zerigo integration

I recently migrated a Rails app I had on Heroku to my domain Hosted on Dream Host and it caused issues with my Google Apps mail. I asked Dream Host and their solution didn't seem to work, and when I ...
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1answer
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Do we need [slow] and [fast] tags?

http://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/slow http://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/fast Seems like these are quite generic. Many things are slow or fast - they provides no real useful information. ...
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Typo in flagging suggestions - “not a real question”

From the flagging summary: It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overy broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its ...
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2answers
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Is there a bug with the acceptance rate calculation?

Just spotted this question, where the user currently has a displayed 57% acceptance rate. I had a look at profile for the user, and found that he'd asked 10 questions, and accepted 4 answers, which by ...
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I would like to reopen this question

I would like to reopen How do I shutdown all VMs and the Host over ssh on ESXi 5 properly? It is not a duplicate. What can i do?
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Congrats to the newly-elected mods!

voretaq7, Chris S, and Iain - Congratulations, gentlemen. All of you are model SE citizens, and I couldn't think of a better bunch to get diamonds this year. I think I speak for all SF users when I ...
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Userbase has gone up, but participation in the election has gone down?

From http://serverfault.com/election: 2011: 3,834 voters were eligible, 566 visited the election, and 310 voted (8% of eligible users voted) 2012: 6,350 voters were eligible, 1,361 visited the site ...
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What's wrong with ServerFault community?

I'm a decentely active stackexchange contributor. I do not have massive reputation, but I consistently try to ask good questions, provide good answers, and moderate to provide my modest contibution ...
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Speedy Google indexing

I asked this question an hour ago: Odd entries in DNS lookup log The question contained the string "xdnrhkbqnn". If I now Google this string I get just one hit, namely my question. How did ...
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What do we do about “Specifications” questions?

I've noticed an uptick in questions that are literally asking us to read the vendor's spec sheets to someone (There's PowerEdge 2950 hard disk , this weekend we had one asking what the address space ...
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1answer
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What happened to flag weight?

I just had a quick look at my profile and flag weight is no longer listed. All that's there is the number of "helpful" flags, which on it's own is pretty meaningless. While a given number might look ...
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4answers
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Vote-to-close vs. flagging

Are there specific guidelines for when it is appropriate to flag a question vs. voting to close? Increasingly, voting to close a clearly off-topic or otherwise unworthy question and posting it in the ...
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Are problems that turned out to be typos “Not a Real Question”?

I happened to see the three questions below in short succession, and they all struck me as being "non-questions" because the problems described were either due to a typo or a misinterpretation of what ...
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Vote: Do we want code highlighting?

Currently, code highlighting is turned off (see balpha's comment here). It is possible to turn it on, if we want so. I think this would be nice to have, maybe on a per-tag basis, but turning it on is ...
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What's off-topic; anything in a home setting, or anything that was designed for home use?

For our FAQ reshaping, I think we need to decide something: Do we hurl questions over to Super User based solely on using a consumer-oriented product, even when it's clear that that product is being ...
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How does the primary voting algorithm break a tie for 10th place?

As a candidate in the election, naturally I was following it closely as Ward and I raced against each other for the 10th spot in the primary. 20-30 minutes before the end of the primary I checked and ...
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The [windows-server-2008] tag is a mess. Let the manual retagging begin!

[windows-server-2008] body:r2 yields a large number of results for questions about 2008 R2 that are tagged 2008. They're, obviously, very different operating systems. I don't see a way to fix this ...
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What a mess [windows] is. Amirite?

I'm currently going through windows closed:0 answers:0 and it's a cesspool. I'm answering what unloved, but salvageable questions that I can find, but I'm dumping a lot of bad questions in VTC. If ...
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Homewreckers wanted! Please handle these home-use questions

Summary ServerFault has numerous home-use questions extending far back into its history. It would be great if we could handle them all and either explicitly close them as off-topic or edit out all ...
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How to get rid of a synomym

Having just gone past the 2500 mark I took a look at the existing tags. To my astonishment suse is mapped to sles. This is not correct (SuSE has two branches - OpenSuSE and SLES). So General ...
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Clarification needed on 2012 Election Page

From the election page: There will be a town hall chat with the candidates on Monday at 21:00 UTC / 4pm EST. Since the town hall chat already happened, this should either just be deleted or ...

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