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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PART 1 What is all the drama on meta.SE about?
If you follow meta.stackexchange (meta.SE), you'll have seen the huge number of posts about the new Code of Conduct (CoC), about Monica Cellio being removed as a moderator from multiple sites, about ...
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July 29, 2016 – 17th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day
Yes. This is not a question. I know. This will be closed, and I'm fine with this. But I think all the sysadmin people out there deserve this, so this is just a short reminder ... and I hope this doesn'...
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New design readability - all comments are ignored
So, the most upvoted answer on Site design update is now live is about the poor choice of colors, making the new design unreadable. I wonder why, even though there's a good buy-in and support for this ...
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Election data breakdown
In light of our last and this election, I was wondering if it was possible to ask for a small breakdown of how the election went and what the average voter looked like.
I understand that keeping ...
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Merge 500 and 500-error and rename
I see that we have a http-status-code-403 tag. It is quite clear what 403 is referring to in that tag name.
We do not have a http-status-code-500 tag. Instead we have 500 and 500-error, which are ...
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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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How good are we at closing questions?
I'm curious as to how good, bad or indifferent we are are closing questions
What percentage of questions that enter the close queue end up being closed ?
What percentage of questions that get closed ...
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2015 Community Moderator Election
The 2015 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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Reasonable business information technology management practices
My question got closed due to not showing "reasonable business information technology management practices". What counts as such 'reasonable management practices'?
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Selling to managers / making things easy for users - on topic?
I probably need to make a fundamental change to the company network that will affect all of my users, potentially making things less convenient than before. There is a well-known process for making ...
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Design is hard on the eyes due to black/white contrast with info boxes
This is what the front page of ServerFault looks like to new users:
I understand that the top bar is black across all sites, and that the cookie notice and mini-tour are supposed to be visible, but ...
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2018 Moderator Election Notice - Timezones
Next week, on September 17th, Server Fault will be hosting an election. The election will be for 2 new moderators.
More importantly, though, when we had polled the mod team about whether a new ...
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Review question: Retagging of old closed untagged questions
Recently, a number of old, closed questions with the tag untagged have been edited with that tag being replaced with an actual tag.
Here's an example of such an edit. The question is several years ...
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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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2020: 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 past 12 months.
As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...
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2019: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, ...
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2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in ...
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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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Restructuring Atlassian tags
I just noticed that there is a tag atlassian which doesn't really servera purpose, since Atlassian isn't a single product, they produce a lot of products. There are tags for some products:
fisheye: ...
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Undelete for an user
I wanted to share a question asked on MSE about a question deleted on SF due to the fact it was abandonned, the OP wanted to post a answer in it.
The question asking for direction wasnt migrated ...
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Unclear what asking - what next?
I have a question about my Server Fault post: Unassigned secondary IP stuck on AWS Linux EC2
I realized after the fact that I didn't formulate it as a question exactly. Now I have added some ...
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Tag Merge Requests: [request(s)] ---> [http-request]
These two tags: request (62 questions) and its twin requests (19 questions) have ambiguous meaning. It can means certificate request, HTTP request or perhaps my boss request.
Almost all question ...
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Canonisation candidate: proper NTP config for a small server pool
I'm quite taken by
Proper NTP configuration for a few servers
, though I must admit to a (small) hand in the refinement process. The OP
has put together an answer that reads well and synthesises a ...
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Feature request: jump to page
Are the SF community planning on adding a jump to page functionality?
As of now, the Question --> Newest section consists of 2313 pages.
I can choose among the first five, next and last page. In no ...
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HTTP result code tags
Thanks to Lucas Kauffman's wikitag activity I've noticed a number of HTTP return code tags like 404, 402, 302, 303, 500 and probably a whole number of others. They seem to be at least ambiguous to me, ...
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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.
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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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Rename tag [parse] to [parse-server]
The parse tag refers to Parse Server and I suggest to rename it to parse-server to
make the tag consistent with the parse-server tag on StackOverflow
prevent using the tag for parsing related ...
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Happy New year 2020
I drop in to wish a happy new year to the community ! :)
A small image for it in the spirit of SF :)
Edit, a good image that fit the spirit of MSE :P (j/k, but the message is nice anyhow :) )
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Should we have a V6 Specific Powershell Tag?
Version 6 of Powershell is significantly different from every prior version. Unless I am completely missing it there is not currently a V6 specific tag. I believe that there should be one. The ...
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How to know if I'm flag-hellbanned?
With the change in the Late Answers review queue, I've found myself hellbanned for flagging suspicious but old spam-like activity. I would like to know if I'm indeed flagbanned to Hell.
Too many of ...
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Why was this question flagged as off-topic?
I have a question about my Server Fault post: Application is not accesible using a public IP address
Why was this question marked as off-topic? It isn't related to development problems, and I don't ...
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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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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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2018 Community Moderator Election
The 2018 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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Tag synonym: powerbroker -> likewise-open
These two tags essentially about one program. I believe it is necessary to combine them.
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My question got closed but I don't really understand why
I asked this question a few days ago and it got closed by someone from the comment section because I apparently "left out relevant details." I disagree on the relevance of the details but ...
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Proposed edit makes no sense?
I've got an edit rejected, which is ok, but I'm a bit puzzled by the rejection comment.
This edit was intended to address the author of the post and makes no sense as an edit. It should have been ...
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Need to revisit rules regarding hosted servers
(extensively edited)
This post (https://serverfault.com/questions/807412/backups-running-out-of-disk-space-possible-to-mount-a-network-drive) was flagged as off-topic due to
Questions involving ...
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