Unanswered Questions
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Request to add visual difference between blockquotes and code blocks
It has always irked my inner aesthetic nazi that code blocks are indistinguishable* from blockquotes at first glance. See my recent answer for an example. I'm picturing something like this:
*Yes, I ...
10
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1answer
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Best 'restricted shell' question
This is one that crops up often:
How to restrict the users' shell allowing to execute shell programs
But is it the best example we can find of a 'canonical' question on which we can close ...
10
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1answer
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links in Serverfault not readily visible
Please consider either changing the color of links in serverfault slightly to contrast more with regular text, or make the links underlined. It is nearly impossible to see them.
example on ...
10
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0answers
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Color scheme in questions lists needs some help
The color contrast here (MetaSF /questions) is a bit difficult. Fine on the home page, but white and yellow against light gray isn't enough of a contrast. Talking about the vote / answer boxes.
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10
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0answers
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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 ...
9
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0answers
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Let's love some older questions, ok?
I've been killing bad closed questions like a good boy and decided to slightly modify the search terms from there to find unloved questions that aren't closed in my favorite tags. The following query ...
7
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0answers
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How often are the community ads supposed to run?
I have only the lamest colloquial proof, but I don't think the community ads are coming up. I haven't seen them. When I asked in chat, nobody else had seem them. The stats page doesn't indicate how ...
6
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0answers
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How can I set my Server Fault flair to show in the employer search result in Careers?
When I look at Employer View, the Employer Search Result example shows my SO "flair" and link (even if I select to hide it on my CV). I do want to include my SO rep and link, but I want my SF one to ...
5
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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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5
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0answers
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Duplicate Titles needing improvement and/or closed as duplicate
Inspired by a similar question on meta.stackoverflow, I just did this database query on serverfault, and found 262 pairs of questions with totally identical title, excluding those where one of them is ...
5
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0answers
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Search suggestions don't display properly
When submitting a search query that returns no results, the site suggests searching with fewer words, and presents a list of links with various words red and struck out — or it's supposed to, anyway. ...
5
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Prevent ambiguous tags
I've just spent a few hours re-tagging a few hundred questions on serverfault.
Mostly this was to remove 20XX tags, and as they can be ambiguous (eg SQL 2008 vs Windows 2008, etc.) there's no easy ...
4
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1answer
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Merge tags tunnel and tunneling
As per the title. There doesn't seem to me to be enough difference in meaning to have both tags.
4
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0answers
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Automatically ask for certain information on Apache vhost questions
Pretty much every time someone asks a question regarding Apache virtual hosts, the very first thing someone asks is "Can you post the output of apache2ctl -S/httpd -S?"
It would be awesome if SF ...
4
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0answers
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Reviewing deleted posts (10K users)
I've been hitting Data Explorer pretty hard lately attempting to purge not-an-answer answers from questions. You all have seen the type.
I'm having the exact same problem. Has anyone fixed this?
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