Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Where should I raise a question about network cable testers?
Here is the question:
https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/21273/network-cable-tester
Question was closed as off-topic.
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Serverfault and Unix/Linux
Is there a general rule when to ask a question on the "Unix and Linux" StackExchange rather than on "serverfault"?
Or: When should questions in one of these two be migrated to the other one?
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Canonical: "What should I do about this user?"
What should I do about a "misbehaving" user?
This type of question really is one that crops up every once in a while - any sysadmin will eventually come across user behaviour that is ...
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Feature Request: Cancel Button for Answers
There have been a few situations where I began to answer a question and realized that my answer was more of a comment. I copied that info into the comment feature and posted that way. However, when ...
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Suggestion for Unanswered Questions: Tab for listing oldest
This should be very easy to implement... I think there should be an option for listing questions by oldest. There is, of course, the 'newest' listing option. Why not just make an 'oldest' beside it? ...
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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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Powershell tags
I reccomed a synonyms for the Tags Powershell and Powershell-v2.0.
Formerly people speak about the first version of Powershell like Porwershell and about the second version like Powershell v2.
But ...
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Bad rejection: Moderators should probably err on the side of inclusion, not on the side of rejection
A few days ago, I came across a question on serverfault with an answer I thought good, but could be improved.
And indeed, the software asked me to improve the question. So I did. I clarified and gave ...
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How can I get people to fully read my question?
I'm having trouble with getting people who review my questions to read the entire question before answering!
I've noticed that my most difficult questions on ServerFault usually end up with answers ...
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Possible migration from Programmers
Do you guys want this question on testing a cluster of CPUs.
It's already got one plain close vote and a flag for migration here.
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Are certain blacklisted words in question titles not just a bit scorched earth and unhelpful?
Recently an operating system's error message included the word "help" in it. I added the error message to the title (always helpful for those perusing questions and most certainly for SERP placement) ...
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The case of the vanishing question
This morning there was this question on the front page of meta. Now, just a couple of hours later, it's not there. Why did it disappear from the front page? Is it because of the number of downvotes? I ...
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tired of having questions closed -- please refine your FAQ
Is it not reasonable to assume that if there's a TAG here, a question relating to the subject of that TAG is
"on topic"?
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Is it reasonable/possible to further discourage down voting?
I'm new here, but it seems to me that there have been many more down votes on questions recently compared to when I first signed up.
I've seen down votes on questions just because they are a little ...
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who manufactures HPs desktop SATA SSD drives? [closed]
HP 160GB SATA Solid State Drive LZ704AA
http://h30094.www3.hp.com/searchresults.asp?store_id=3&search_id=16&dept_id=113&price_min=-1&price_max=2147483647&rank_on=sasssearch&...
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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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Tag: Career-development and Career
What should be done with the Career-Development and Career tags? I believe The Community's position on questions that relate to the non-technical aspects of system administration and support jobs are ...
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Question closed because I am not an administrator on the server?
I posted this question earlier and was surprised that it was closed with the explanation:
"Not A Real Question: It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, ...
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Would like to understand why was my question closed
The question is about a hosted GIT on a Windows Server 2003. It's a centralized server that holds our CVS for 14 developers.
I think it answers and follows the FAQ guidelines, and I would like to know ...
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Apache tags - a bit of a mess?
So, we've got apache, which is the second most popular tag on the site.
It's a superset of the versions of it - apache2, apache2.2, apache1.3; and apache2 is essentially a superset of 2.0, 2.2, and ...
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Revenge downvoting?
I don't have a link to the question as it was deleted by its owner but I believer the asker did not like my answer and downvoted some of my other questions and answers. At least it seems mighty ...
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Strange behaviour when using Camino on SF
Just lately I'm getting same strange and quite inconsistent behaviour on SF with Camino browser, version 2.0.9 on OS X 10.7. I suspect the problem is with Camino but as it works fine on every other ...
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Tag Removal Request: "School"
There are 8 questions tagged with "school". Is this really needed or can it be burnificated?
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Why do I have to award a bounty?
For reference: How to Monitor an Adaptec/Intel ICH10R RAID Controller (any SNMP notification options?)
I understand that the bounty system does not guarantee an answer, it guarantees that your ...
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Downvoting really old questions?
Is this fair, morally right, or acceptable? By really old I mean at least a month or two old.
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Is it taboo to answer my own questions to promote nice features of <xyz> app?
[EDIT]: Okay, I clearly miscommunicated on my first attempt, so I'm clarifying my whole post. I am not interested in promoting zsh through Q&A regarding arbitrary features. I am interesting in ...
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Handling very-low-quality answers
As a moderator I see a lot of flags for "very low quality". Sometimes they can be fixed. A lot of the time the flag is code for, "this is a crap answer," and nothing can be done but down-vote it, ...
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A small discrepency in the color tags at the bottom of the site
Just being picky here, but the "Photography" swatch of color is the same as the background of this site (not meta), perhaps it can be changed to maybe a shade lighter or darker, or get a black border. ...
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Distinction between Serverfault and Webmasters
I've been browsing serverfault and webmasters, and it seems that the intent of the webmasters is to deal mainly with creating and maintaining webpages and content, and serving it. The Programmers ...
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Fun and Humor Tag
What should be done with the fun and humor tags?
I'm not sure if What should we do with "coolest server names" is the exeption, but should we try to clean up questions that aren't directly ...
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New TMG tags backwards?
It's been standardized on something that doesn't intuitively make sense to me - two tags for the same product, vendor prefixing, and an unused acronym:
threat-management-gateway -> ms-ftmg
tmg-2010 -...
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tag merge: utf-8 and utf8
Suggest we merge utf8 into the correct tag utf-8, and make former a synonym of utf-8.
Maybe there's a more general fix you could make in the StackExchange code - when creating a new tag, save the ...
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What should we do with "coolest server names"
So this question... https://serverfault.com/questions/45734/the-coolest-server-names
It's horribly off topic. It's got a few votes to delete it right now because the community does not want it here (...
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Tag merge request: 4kb-sector into advanced-format
4kb-sector is a duplicate of advanced-format and should be merged into the latter - perhaps retaining 4kb-sector as a synonym of advanced-format, as some people may not know the Advanced Format term.
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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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Expand migrate-options
Lately we've been having a lot of questions that would be better suited over at AskDifferent or Unix & Linux. However, there is no option to migrate them there in the off-topic section, so we just ...
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Flag declined - I don't understand the rationale behind why
So i flagged this question as off topic; belongs on Super User. The flag was declined and i have a hard time understanding why. It seems to be a textbook example of a question that does not belong on ...
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Flag a closed question for removal?
I just came across a question that looks to me like the intention was to remove it last November:
to be deleted - question [closed] [closed] (edit: meanwhile removed)
Having less than 10k rep, ...
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What are the canonical answers we've discovered over the years?
We've created, appointed, or otherwise identified certain question/answer pairs that are the canonical answer for certain problems. These are answers where the community has said all it is going to ...
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Windows Deployment Service tag synonymous to WDS tag
Window Deployment Service is a technology include in Windows 2008 R2 for deployment microsoft operating systems using the LAN.
It's often shortened as WDS.
windows-deployment-services and wds are ...
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Virtual Hosting tags [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Tag synonym/merge: virtual{host,hosts,-hosting,-hosts}
I am not sure if i should post this kind of things here.
Should I?
I recommend that the tags: virtualhosts, virtual-...
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Delete tag: 2008
I think tag "2008" is not neccesary.
All the questions in tag 2008 reffer to windows server 2008 or sql 2008. Both of them already have their own tags.
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What to do with XAMPP/MAMP/WAMP questions
It's generally known that it's a horrible idea to use these one-click LAMP stack installers for anything but local development. That said, with surprising regularity, we seem to get questions from ...
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What firewall does Stack Exchange use?
Does anyone know what firewall Stack Exchange uses? There was a post on the Serverfault blog here that described it as:
1 Router / Firewall (Ubuntu Server)
Just curious to see what the bigger sites ...
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What happened to the apc tag?
A few months back I asked about a retag-request for the apc tag because of the confusion between the PHP APC opcode cache and APC meaning American Power Systems backup power supplies.
I just noticed ...
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Old questions with high view count but it is not suitable for SF
I just came across https://serverfault.com/questions/32910/how-to-find-a-directory-on-linux . It is clearly more suiteable for SuperUser. As I was about to flag the question I see it is from 2009, has ...
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Community Posts for Blog.SF?
A lot of other sites are using blog.site.stackexchange.com to create a blog on their topic with contributions from the community.
The Server Fault blog has mostly been posts from George and I about ...
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Synonyms for DNS Tags
I've just been around filling in some tag wikis for a bunch of DNS related tags, and I noticed the following:
a-record
cname
ptr
a-record doesn't fit the same naming scheme as the rest. Probably ...
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Why is there no Server Fault Twitter account?
Why serverfault don't have a twitter account, which twit about most recent or "Hot" Questions?
Other communities , like unix.stackexchange.com , have their twitter accounts to do that.
I think that ...
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The Canada tag should probably go
Why is there even a canada tag? Isn't that a bit too localized? I did a quick look, and there's no usa or great-britain or australia, so why on $DEITY'S green Earth is there a canada tag?
There's 5 ...
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