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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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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nginx, serve php files [migrated]
My nginx virtual host fails to serve PHP files. Instead, it downloads the index.php file when run in a browser. Here's my config:
/etc/nginx/sites-available/laravel.local
server {
listen 80;
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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 spam flag have optional hidden comment?
When flagging a post spam because of a single URL considered as spam it may be challenging to find the reason for flag, if the post otherwise is well formed.
For example there seems to be a user ...
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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How to handle unanswered questions that have the answer in a comment or edited into the question?
This is about those two questions:
httpd.conf match absolute file
PHP 5.3 Not Logging
Both had no answer (neither accepted nor unaccepted).
Both askers answered it without actually writing an answer,...
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How will I ever be able to comment if I need a 50 reputation
Reputation is soooo frustrating.
I wanted to answer someone's follow-on question to: https://serverfault.com/questions/54736/how-to-check-if-a-library-is-installed?newreg=...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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I will no longer be moderating SF
A few months ago I took a break from moderating and participating in SF for reasons mostly unrelated to today's post. I am not entirely 100% satisfied with the way that turned out, but I am cautiously ...
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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How should I handle dead links on questions/answers?
How should dead links in questions and answers be handled when found - should they be marked as such, removed, or similar?
For example, in this answer, the links to pages on the GitHub site now return ...
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Rest in peace, Michael Hampton
Several social media posts from people who knew Michael Hampton dated around October 5 and an Ever Loved obituary dated October 1 state that he has passed away.
Here on Server Fault, where he was ...
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How can I remove my ban on asking questions?
How can I remove my ban on asking questions? My asked questions are closed.
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How can we measure the health of ServerFault?
What tools or metrics do we have to measure the health of the ServerFault community? I mean that are available to non-moderators.
I've read lots of debates here over the years about how healthy the ...
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Let's patch up the [patch] tag!
I think the patch should be split into two tags: patch-panel and something to refer to patching a computer, perhaps software-patch would be a good name (I'm open to other options, though). Or, patch ...
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PART 2: How does the drama on meta.SE affect Server Fault?
Reduced moderation
To start with, two of the moderators on Server Fault have drastically curtailed their activity on the site.
Michael Hampton: "After catching up on this situation, including today'...
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