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 is the line with the Google sponsored tags?
Google sponsor some tags within the SE network. In particular, here on Server Fault google-cloud-platform, google-app-engine and google-compute-engine.
The Google support pages have this to say on ...
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Do we need a canonical answer about ENOSPC?
Searching for No space left on device finds 159 questions, and I didn't find any canonical among them. Do we need a canonical Q/A for that?
So far theses four reasons has covered all of the out of ...
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What ever became of the meeting with SE staff about the "future of Serverfault"?
I was going to ask this is in chat but figured it was better served if the community-at-large got to see the results of the meeting, what was discussed, etc.
This is in regards to this Meta post: ...
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Tag Burnination [tag:instance]
The instances tag was recently merged into instance and this comment was made
But really, neither tag is useful; it ought to just be burninated.
It is a pretty useless tag so shall we burninate ...
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Why was my post closed by a moderator?
I asked a question about connnecting a printer to Google Cloud on Server Fault and he put it on hold stating:
Questions on Server Fault must be about managing information
technology systems in a ...
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Proposal to merge Instances tag into instance
The instances tag seems to be a duplicate of instance. The proposal is to merge instances into instance and subsequently remove the instances tag.
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Confused about joining the community (reputation)
I am confused about how to join this community. Here's what I've done so far:
1) I have a problem.
2) I came here for help
3) When I went to ask the question, the instructions told me to ...
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Is a duplicate, a duplicate question or a duplicate answer?
Because of a recent question I've been wondering what duplicate actually means.
Researching the issue here and on meta.SE has not given me a conclusive answer but I did notice my own thoughts ...
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On hold vs closed questions, what's the difference?
Today I noticed two questions (here and here) on SF closed for the same reason, being off-topic. However, I noticed that one of them was put "on hold" as off-topic and the other was "closed" as off-...
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2015 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
As we've done in the previous election, we will be holding a Q&A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic of ...
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Can I see the "Moderator election candidate statistics" for myself without running for moderator?
I figured I'd ask here before making an Evan Carroll out of myself.
I really like the statistics found here:
http://elections.stackexchange.com/#serverfault
Short of nominating myself, is there a ...
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Why were my "not an answer" flags on these answers declined? What should I have done instead?
I came across these two answers to an old question, which to my mind are simply link-only answers. Hence, I flagged them as NAA to push them into the review queue for the more experienced members of ...
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Moderation inconsistencies
I flagged this deleted answer (unilaterally deleted by a moderator) for reopening, and gave the explanation "This answer is no worse than any others that have been left intact. It should be reinstated ...
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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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Disagree with a declined flag
I flagged this answer as NAA.
The reasoning behind it being that it is clearly an attempted comment on the answer right below it.
This flag has since been rejected for flags should not be used to ...
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How to deal with "marginal" answers on review?
I just got a failed review audit on https://serverfault.com/review/late-answers/215455 -- it states that the answer at issue was, in fact, very low quality, and I should have done something about it. ...
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Is this not the right Stack Exchange site for my question about accessing URLs through their IP address?
Completely new to Server Fault. Yesterday I asked How can I access a URL through it's IP address? which was greeted with an informative answer but also 4 down votes and a close for being off-topic....
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Would a question which will probably turn into a discussion should be asked on SF?
I would like to ask a question which will probably turn into a discussion soon enough because there's no one absolute answer and there are a few ways to achieve the aim of the question I'm going to ...
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Q: Proposing tags that do not have questions yet?
After looking at the new tags section the other day I saw a new tag about airflow. Having dealt with several cooling and airflow issues in server rooms and datacenter environments I added the tag to ...
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Should I flag bottleneck identification problems as Capacity and Planning dupes?
There are lots of questions on ServerFault (2.3k as of this writing) about identifying bottlenecks. I just came across CPU overloaded but no proccess is using more than 1% when reviewing, and I'm not ...
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Is it time to kill problematic tags like cpanel, plesk, whm and webmin?
Given the recent uptick in new users with new questions, I've been noticing an even sharper-than-normal decline in quality on the site and a correlated increase in the number of questions about how to ...
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Need to either significantly improve a poorly asked+answered old question; or to re-ask (duplicate) it properly
I have basically this question. But that 2012 post doesn't work for multiple reasons:
The OP has forgotten to add good reasons legitimising his request. That lead to the usual avalanche of downvotes ...
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Is this the correct attitude for a Server Fault moderator?
Ok... let me explain the case: I recently got the review upgrade in Stackoverflow and start reviewing some questions. I'm not experienced in this and obviously everyone does mistakes initialy, so I ...
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Can I ask a question with a higher level of abstraction?
Can I ask about more abstract things here? For example, can I ask about why a DNS needs to be public? Or how a accessible public DNS creates a unique destination?
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Can we have more "Suggested Sites" for question migrations?
Are we able to add more options into the "belongs on" menu within the flag menu?
I'm aware of the "flag for moderator approval" as discussed in this Meta question, but I'm wondering if some more ...
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Can I open a question about licensing?
I would like to open a question about VMware Essentials Kits licensing but, searching through the community I've found this: Can you help me with my software licensing issue?
Which lead me to ...
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Would it be ok to create a second SF account in order to ask questions which cannot be related to me?
My ServerFault user name is my real name and when you search certain topics in Google you can easily reach questions that I've asked in the past on ServerFault.
I'm a self employed consultant in ...
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Asking for old-ish questions from SuperUser
After stumbling upon (and answering) two questions on SuperUser which would have a much happier life here (1,2), I have raised a moderator flag asking for the questions' migration to SF.
The ...
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Synonym request: [tcpip] --> [tcp]
tcp and tcpip are the same thing, right?
Can we make tcpip a synonym for tcp, for clarity?
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closed serverfault question
I am reading this closed question and I find the reason for closing it a bit confusing: Why does it matter the environment where the issue occurs, since it could equally happen both at home for ...
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Dealing with blatant spam posts
A new user just registered and posted two spam posts, one of which was very long. Both posts started to get downvoted very quickly, and a number of close votes were made.
The questions were live for ...
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Updating the apache tag
Currently the apache is synonym-ed to apache-2.2.
While perhaps useful in the past, it has since lost its usefulness. As apache-2.4 exists now, and the general apache tag is misleading to those who ...
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Remove the messages tag
I recently stumbled across the mess that is the messages tag.
It has no followers, which should probably be the main reason for burning a bad tag, as nobody is currently using it to track incoming ...
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Should we be more tolerant of "Lack of Research"?
Possible duplicate or follow-on of: Questions lacking minimal understanding
One of the perennial cries in ServerFault is that new users' questions often show a lack of research. This leads to a quick ...
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Synonym request: [segfault] + [segmentationfault] into [segmentation-fault]
The term of segmentationfault is often shortened to segfault.
So, let's create new tag segmentation-fault (for better readability) and make it synonym of two tags above.
Any thoughts?
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Abrupt change in moderation staff?
Myself and a few others just noticed that HopelessN00b and Chris S are no longer listed as moderators. What is the story behind this?
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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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Which tag should be used for restoring backups?
Apparently we have two almost equally used tags that are being used mostly for the same purpose. Lets pick one, merge, and setup an alias. I like the backup-restoration choice a bit more, because it ...
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Publish private Lan services over Internet
How to access my internal network services from outside my local network ?
This is a redundant question i can see on SF, mainly regarding Web Server publication from Lan to Internet.
From now, i ...
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Is there a way to send a private message to another SF user?
Just for curiousity is there a way to send a private message through any SF facility to another SF user?
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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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You need at least 10 reputation to post images
Seeing this (on Server Fault) had me asking a lot of questions:
Why am I being told this halfway through writing my post instead of, say, when clicking the image button?
Didn't I used to have plenty ...
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Let us (continue to) close old, off-topic questions about web hosting control panels
I'm not going to rehash all the drama of the last few days surrounding our former moderator HopelessN00b's mass closing of old, off-topic questions about web hosting control panels, but something ...
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Is Server Fault the appropriate website to ask about system design questions?
Note: This is a follow-up question to this one.
I'm planning to practice some system design questions asked during tech interviews, and I'd like to get reviews/opinions on how I'd design some systems ...
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Some parting thoughts... and apologies for the drama
First off, I know I said and take the weekend, but it turns out I don't need it, and it does seem like a dick move to let things keep going on as they have, when there's no benefit from doing so. As ...
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How does the community feel about deleting the April Fools' question?
The question, though you'll need deleted-viewing rep to see it: https://serverfault.com/questions/679847/is-there-an-alternative-to-windows-server-since-it-is-being-discontinued
For those that can't ...
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We need a custom close reason for web hosting control panels
As part of our ongoing cleanup of old (and new) web hosting control panel questions, we need a custom close reason for web hosting control panels which explains the issue, why we are unable to accept ...
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What should Server Fault do with questions about web hosting control panels?
We've had this discussion before, but it's apparently time to revisit it. For some background, see:
http://meta.serverfault.com/q/1075/126632
http://meta.serverfault.com/q/3425/126632
http://meta....
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Site design update is now live
Hello Server Fault community,
I want to give you a heads up that I'll be making some minor design updates to SF site design to reflect recent changes on Stack Overflow and Super User. Visually it ...
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What should the community take away from panel-gate?
The event that has been dubbed panel-gate by members of the community has sparked emotion and even outrage from the community with regard to the actions of some, and how the events unfolded.
The ...
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