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How can I move a stackexchange entry to another stackexchange server?

I see many excellent questions with excellent answers that are closed because the question was asked on the wrong server. For example: A question was posted on stackexchange.com, but should have been ...
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Why is the question about Nginx, MySQL and Wordpress is off-topic?

I have a question about my Server Fault post: Wordpress via 3 PHP versions Is here a place I'm able to ask questions about servers' software? I thought the questions about installing Wordpress and ...
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Problems with low-traffic Stack Exchange sites

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. For one example, take a look at the https://math....
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Why can't we black list questions with description contain mobile number and string loans?

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?
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Why is this question off-topic?

I was looking at this question which is historic but massively upvoted, and I don't understand why it's off topic. Does orientation affect hard drive lifespan? Mounting hard drives would seem to be ...
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Is it "a .ear file" or "an .ear file"?

For the question currently titled "How to deploy an .ear file in glassfish?", is it "a .ear file" (a dot-ear file) or "an .ear file" (an ear file)? Because it certainly ...
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Is this haproxy question appropriate for serverfault?

Does this question meet the criteria for on topic for SF? It is 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 ...
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Should we have a Slack tag?

Questions like this one seem to be missing a "Slack" tag because we don't have a slack tag on ServerFault. This would be a logical addition to our tags since it is commonly used in many IT ...
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Massive Spam Attacks since couple of days

It seems that https://serverfault.com/search?q=loan+number My first page on ServerFault looks like gets a lot of hits for the same spam type, and I'm already hitting the flag limits what could be ...
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Labor action notice

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 ...
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Homepage spammed

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 ...
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Stack Overflow Inc. changes policy regarding enforcement of AI-Generated posts

As per this post: What is the network policy regarding AI Generated content? Although the guidance given in this public post is somewhat different from what was discussed a day earlier in a private ...
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Explanation of closed posts

I have question I asked on [server fault <-mistake on my part, long day] StackOverflow, it was originally locked by mods asking for debugging details. I thought I had explained the issue fairly ...
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Found useful info on a post closed as "too narrow/restricted". Is that Ok?

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 ...
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Middle Sidebar Advertising

As you all know, advertising is an important source of revenue for Stack Overflow and it helps us support all the sites across the Stack Exchange Network and the resources that go into maintaining and ...
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Why doesn't ServerFault allow questions about unsupported hardware/software platforms?

I ran across a question today with the following close reason: Questions should demonstrate reasonable business information technology management practices. Questions that relate to unsupported ...
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What is the proper procedure when an old answer no longer works?

The following scenario; You have the same problem as a previous asker, or a highly similar one. The previous answer has a working, accepted solution... 8 years ago. Things have changed (software ...
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If this question is off-topic, where is it on-topic?

This question: Google Calendar alternative for an NGO who wishes to publicly share an activities calendar which is somewhere in the convex hull of SF, SR, SU and maybe WebApps, has been closed as off-...
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Mirgration of questions to U&L

On reflection I feel that I should have posted the following three questions of mine on U&L rather than SF. Can they please be migrated? How to block a specific GID via PAM? Can authconfig/...
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2022: a year in moderation

As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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A small measure of congratulations

To @dave-m for doing the 100K'th Suggest Edit review! You don't get to milestones like that very often. With 6,733 suggested-edit reviews, Dave has the largest percentage of edit-reviews of any user. ...
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Why this edit was accepted?

https://serverfault.com/posts/1101435/timeline I don't understand why talks about "pwsh", what the hell is it? Powershell? Windows? Why was it added? Why this particular answer? This ...
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I can't ask question in serverfault [duplicate]

I can't ask in serverfault, I read the docs about how to question. How can I unlock asking question?
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Why was my question closed as "off-topic"?

I have a question about my Server Fault post: "Welcome to Intellek" when trying to install Windows LTSC 2021 in Qemu Why was my question closed? The close message does not provide enough ...
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ChatGPT answers not permitted

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 ...
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Why my question is downvoted even with all the required info available in the question?

I have a question about my Server Fault post: RDP Client showing different screen (related to SConfig) on VM Startup I have given all the information such as: Inputs Outputs Error details Valid ...
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Is there any way to allow a low-reputation user to chat?

I think that Ping device connected to host having LAN access is probably a very simple problem, but the OP is new to SF and isn't always providing the right information in a useful fashion. I think ...
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Why a "Wow! That solved the problem!" answer gets down voted

This is not a complaint, and I don't care about the points. I just find ironic amusement in the response to my answer to Execute root commands through ssh user. A user asked about an error message he ...
Ray Butterworth's user avatar
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Reduce bump activity of the Community Bot

Regularly half or more of the questions on the ServerFault front-page seem to be there only because they were bumped by the Community bot. It's self claimed configuration is among others: Randomly ...
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Privacy issue, links for sharing questions, answers contains user ID

please do not add user ID to the links given to users when they click to share the link to an answer (for example there: Slow ext4 fsck , yet i see that it does not happen in all sites/questions ). ...
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Answer to 11 year old question

Is there any sense of answer (like I did :D ) to 11 year old question? (the OP and another answer user are no longer part of SE) And is it make any sense bot to show it in the front page of ...
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where to ask questions for discussion

one of the main guidelines is to ask questions that can be answered, and not questions open for discussion. where do I ask questions that are borderline? (meaning I am not sure it has a definitive ...
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Is TOR a Business related Environment?

as I sometimes see here For my understanding, TOR could never be, and will be never a serious instrument for a Business Relationship. Sofar in my understanding, of the TOUR and Whats on Topic page, ...
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"Announcer" badge without having posted a link?

You have earned the "Announcer" badge (Share a link to a post later visited by 25 unique IP addresses) for Endpoint for Cloud Function returns 403 Forbidden. It opens at the answer, with my ...
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The Help Center contains outdated names and URLs

Almost all URLs in the Help Center's on-topic page use HTTP, when Stack Exchange has migrated entirely to HTTPS. Additionally, the link to Information Security is using its old name, "IT Security&...
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Should we encourage edit suggestions to be re-submitted until they are approved?

If an edit suggestion is rejected, is it acceptable for the user to re-submit an identical edit suggestion? I feel like this encourages a "mommy said no, so I'll get permission from daddy" ...
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AWS will be sponsoring Server Fault

We're thrilled to announce that AWS will be sponsoring Server Fault starting on July 18 through December 31. We wanted to give you a heads-up and walk you through what that means. How and where will ...
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More detail about reasons for question closure, please

I have a question about my Server Fault post: Client-side UAC seems to be enough to permit code to be "Run As Administrator" on Windows Server I'm not clear why this question was closed. ...
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Why my comment was deleted by moderators?

On the May 17 I wrote a comment under this answer for the Nginx verifying client certs only on a particular location question. I downvoted the answer, and I never downvote an answer without writing a ...
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Anonymous edit of recent user questions

Interesting case with the question Regex to remove certain patterns from urls . The user who asked this was recently registered. The profile is empty and this is their first question. Then there is an ...
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Please rename freenas tag to truenas

There is an existing tag [freenas]. This refers to "FreeNAS", a Network-Attached Storage (NAS) software product which has been around for many years. Over the course of 2019-2021, the ...
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At what level should we reject edits?

We don't have many edits, but we have some. My overall impression is that they fall into two categories: Substantial improvements to the item. Fixes language and generally tidies up the question ...
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How are easy-to-spot review audits useful?

I know I'm being served an edit review audit when: The review takes several seconds to load The title has nonsense phrase edits I nearly mechanically Reject for Spam/Vandalism. I don't really know ...
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Is it possible for someone with enough privileges to create a "webp" and a "prestashop" tag?

I have a question about my Server Fault post: Trying to get apache serve webp instead of png/jpe?g via .htacess (/img folder of prestashop) Hi everyone, I posted my first question here on your site. ...
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How to handle consistent handholding questions?

Over the last few days I've seen the same user post a series of questions, all on the same topic. Each question is a little further on from the previous one. I'm curious what Meta's opinion on this is....
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Rescind rule on business IT?

This site has a rule about not covering home configurations or systems, limiting it to IT used in a business environment. I think it's time to rescind that rule, and allow more complex home lab ...
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Merge DevOps into ServerFault? (polite for: close down DevOps SE and find the best SE for the freed Q/A?)

There are few questions from users >200 points on DevOps. There are on the whole 5000 questions, and new questions get few views and few answers. This SE should be merged into ServerFault even in ...
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Is there anything useful I can do to help with the massive number of spam posts coming in?

It looks like today there's a huge number of spam questions being created. Other than downvoting/flagging, is there anything useful regular users can do? Are there sysadmins that are hopefully looking ...
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2021: a year in moderation

As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...
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Please silently tag rocky-linux

I just created rocky-linux and can see 16 questions searching rocky linux with only one noise result dated 2018. Given overall project support, I speculate this will increase, thus the tag. Can ...
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