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Is the [help] tag helpful?

The help tag seems a little pointless, but there are 23 questions tagged as help, don't you agree?
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Canonical: "Help me size my wholly unspecified application" question

We periodically get the "Help me size my wholly unspecified application" questions, like What capacities should have a hosting to support an average of 1000 registered users simultaneously? or Server ...
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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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SHould the "safe" tag exist?

There are currently 6 questions using the safe tag, including one of my own. Should this tag even exists? Does it have value on its own? I was going to simply remove it from each of those questions ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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Do we need [slow] and [fast] tags?

https://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/slow https://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/fast Seems like these are quite generic. Many things are slow or fast - they provides no real useful ...
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Tag reorganisation kvm*

This is related but it doesn't look like it was fully resolved. Tag kvm has (at least) two potential uses. Some work was done as per the link above to split it into kvm and kvm-switch. However, as ...
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How can I delete my own question?

It may seem funny but can I actually delete my own question on SF? For example, what if I have a question that doesn't need to be answered any more? As time passes the situation has changed, other ...
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Need some clarification

I flagged the following item as being possibly not appropriate to ServerFault suggesting another possible group. I got the following reply for the question https://serverfault.com/questions/358965/...
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Restrict some formatting options for posting answers

Following on from this question I propose that formatting which can be used to make an answer look grossly different to the general look of answers on SF. e.g. This kind of thing should not be allowed ...
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Flagging bad or incorrect comments

Should I flag a comment when the commenter doesn't really understand the background of a field. e.g. Servers (Sys admin questions), networks (Net admin questions), web dev etc.. or the initial ...
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Answerer comments out of line?

The original author of This Answer has made some comments that are, in my opinion, out of line. I'm not sure if I'd be the best person to call him out on it, considering it was my question to begin ...
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Is this type of answer acceptable?

I have mixed feelings about this guy's answers. Most of his answers that I've read seem to be good, informative, but the formatting always bugs me, and sometimes the list of references looks spammy. ...
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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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"ca" vs. "certificate-authority" tags

It appears that ca and certificate-authority are redundant. How about a synonym? It doesn't appear that any ca questions are referring to "Computer Associates".
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What's happening with the FAQ?

The voting question has been locked, but there's no indication of what the status is. For those of us who haven't been on The Comms Room lately (where I assume it's been discussed), would it be ...
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Define tag integrated-authentication

Currently on 19 questions, integrated-authentication seems rather broad and lacks a tag wiki; is it definable & useful, or overly vague & redundant?
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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.
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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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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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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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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: https://serverfault.com/suggested-edits/5138 This got rejected by user Chris S. What guideline did I violate with ...
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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 ...
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Asking Questions When You've Found the Answer

Possible Duplicate: Stackoverflow: Should I answer my own question, or not? I recently ran into a problem that was particularly annoying and I was able to find the answer by a funky non-linear ...
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User posting spammy links

This user seems to do nothing but post links to recoverytoolbox.com. They have made several identical posts pointing to the same software, depending on the question they're answering. It's not ...
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Alias throttle to throttling

Right now both throttle and throttling exist, with the larger batch of questions tagged with the throttle. They seem to be be about the same general thing, and throttling seems like a better choice to ...
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Marking old "useful command line commands" question as historical

Does anyone else think its worthwhile locking Useful Command-line Commands on Windows as historical significance only? I know its community wiki but its still a time sink, and is the sort of ...
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Upvoting without discretion

For the past 24 hours at least, someone has been upvoting questions without discretion on ServerFault. At first, I started to downvote the particularly heinous misappropriation. At this point, I'm ...
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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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Rename [elastic-ip] to [amazon-elastic-ip]

We did it for all the amazon-related products but it looks like this one fell true the cracks: elastic-ip should be renamed to amazon-elastic-ip.
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Retag: sunsolaris10 → solaris-10, sunsolaris → solaris

I suggest adding sunsolaris10 as an synonym to solaris-10. As well, add sunsolaris as an synonym to solaris. The bare name is more correct.
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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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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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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 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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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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Our FAQ sucks (so let's fix it!)

OK folks, I have a serious case of FAQ envy. Because of This question I took a good long look at the DBA.SE FAQ for the first time since it came out of beta. Compared to what they've done the front ...
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Question migrated to superuser and then deleted

Why was the question https://serverfault.com/questions/354781/how-to-access-setup-of-this-router?noredirect=1 migrated to super user? I mean, doesn’t network equipment belong here? EDIT: The question ...
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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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Can someone tell me why this question is voted to be closed?

https://serverfault.com/questions/354707/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 ...
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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 [duplicate]

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 which ...
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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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Some more tag maintenance

These can (and should) probably be nuked: oddities, down, up, free-hosting, cheap-hosting, what-is.
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Eliminate the Career tag

Can we please eliminate the career tag? I just can't imagine a question where that tag is appropriate and still be on topic but not totally subjective (although the subjective vote has now been ...
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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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Modifying the faq, shopping edition

The 'product recommendation' question occurs here a lot. I propose we modify the existing FAQ language: and it is not about … Networking outside the professional workplace Running servers at home ...

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