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26 questions linked to/from What IS a "professional capacity"?
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Remove "Professional" close-reason
The third close-reason is currently:
Questions must be relevant to professional system administration. Server Fault is dedicated to professional system and network administrators. End user and ...
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Is there recourse for abusive moderation?
I asked this question about yum and Apache, which is a perfectly fine question for this site. A site moderator stepped in and issued comments that were not helpful to answering the question as asked. ...
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What questions are on topic for ServerFault? What is the right thing to do if I asked an off-topic question?
Where can I read what kind of questions that are appropriate to ServerFault?
One could think About page is such a place, but it is not.
I have a couple of questions that were poorly received. I can ...
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Are we becoming too judgmental about questions relating to "professionalism"?
It seems odd to me that this question (Windows XP procedurally drop packets) is currently flagged for issues on being "professional."
When did this site become so judgmental and only accept ...
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Where do I ask a question about backup of local mac and vmware fusion based prototyping environment
I am an IT pro and tend to need virtual environments for opsdev, infrastructure and development type activities that require non-functional facets like backup.
A lot of my work gets done on trains so ...
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What makes virtual box off topic on server fault?
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I'm a fairly green user to server fault, and admittedly to server management. I asked this question regarding an issue with virtualbox which was placed on hold on the basis of
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Line noise check, RE: our topic matter
Yes, this is an actual thing that I'm having to post.
Reading a number of the recent opinion wars on meta, I really feel like it should be necessary to complete the following mental checklist before ...
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Why was my edit rejected?
I suggested an edit to an answer that improved it IMO quite a bit, but not enough to merit a separate post:
https://serverfault.com/review/suggested-edits/150104
It got rejected because it was "...
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Should we have a "general reference" close reason?
I've been noticing an influx of questions lately which not only show a total lack of research, but are completely and thoroughly answered in the product documentation.
Such questions almost always ...
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Should there be a list of tricky "off-topic" subjects for new posters to be directed to?
It seems that some of the community here is rather hostile to new posters who don't know exactly how "professional" a question has to be in order to be accepted here as a good fit.
For example, this ...
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Where is the best place to ask question about servers but also when "learning new things"?
Being attracted from the name "ServerFault" I thought this was the best StackExchange site to ask about servers which I own with AWS.
But when going through the tour and some meta questions, ...
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