Questions tagged [discussion]
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What's the difference between 'vm' and 'virtual-machine' tags?
I see there's separate vm and virtual-machines tags. What's the difference? Should they be made synonyms?
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Why is there a separate forum for IT security questions?
It seems to me that the new IT Security site and Serverfault are very thinly sliced and might create confusion in its shared users about what kind of questions go where. For example, the question "...
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Systematic downvoting?
While looking to see why I received a downvote (don't care, just curious) I noticed a rather unusual voting pattern to answers to this question, where all but one answer have been downvoted. None of ...
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Why does it take so many steps to add a tag to my favorites?
I'm reading some stuff here. Oooh, a tag on an interesting subject. I'll add it to my favorites ...
Click on the tag ...
It directs me to the page where all the questions related to the tag appears....
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Changing the FAQ: Home networks
One thing I've noticed in close-voting is that if the questioner mentions that what they're doing is in their home in any way, it gets voted off-topic. If it's about the network itself, it gets ...
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RSS Feed for bounties?
Is there a feed available somewhere that tracks bounties offered? Apologies if this has been discussed and rejected elsewhere.
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Bad Synonym for APT
I think that the apt tag shouldn't have been set to a synonym of apt-get but it should have been the other way around. apt is the technology, apt-get is one of many ways to use apt.
Probably we ...
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Avoid Tumbleweed badge
Is it ok to delete a question with low views and no answers and also no comments for some time and re-post it in order to get more visibility and maybe an answer?
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I've had a fault on my broadband connection (now resolved) and my ISP has posted a diagnostic. Would it be OK to ask what it all means?
I'm not sure whether this would be a suitable question for SF or not.
My broadband failed a few days ago and has just been restored. My ISP posted the output from a diagnostic test as a response to ...
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Why was my server 2003 question moved to superuser.com?
This question
https://serverfault.com/questions/213602/why-would-a-2tb-drive-say-half-its-space-is-used-when-it-isnt-closed
was moved to superuser.com, and I don't know why.
It's an O/S question ...
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Why limit site to "many desktop PCs" and no mention of laptops? [closed]
FAQ says I can ask questions here when I manage many desktop PCs. What if I manage 100's of laptops?
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What's the worst question you've ever seen on SF.com?
I thought it might be neat/funny to link to the worst questions you've ever seen on serverfault.
I'll start us off with https://serverfault.com/questions/209537/hi-can-any-ony-explain-elaborately-...
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mod_rewrite/htaccess/etc. questions - migrate?
As was noted by sysadmin1138 in the Unprofessional Questions thread, we've been getting a lot of mod_rewrite questions as of late. Add to those all of the questions we get asked regularly about ...
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What is the meaning of the square box around question answer?
I read the whole FAQ and I did not find that answer.
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Server Fault FAQ Update
Based on the responses to this question here, and after reviewing the FAQ again, I would like to suggest a section be added similar to Super User which explicitly states what questions are not allowed ...
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Do questions about managing and troubleshooting gaming server software belong here?
I've proposed to have a migration path from Gaming to Server Fault not just to give questions on this topic (example questions: 1, 2, 3) a place where they'd fit better, but rather to give them better ...
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What Should I do About An Answer I Can't Verify
Several months ago I asked a question on server fault. Someone just answered it but we replaced our 10.4 deployment with a 10.5 deployment earlier this year and I now have no way to verify the ...
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Should we try to eliminate password reset questions?
I realise this was somewhat covered previously in this question but this question, which is merely another in a long line of similar ones, prompted me to think that perhaps such questions should be ...
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What's the best way to understand the knowledge that exists in the ServerFault-SE community?
I've looked at the tags, but it's still hard to tell what questions will get the most value.
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What to do with questions tagged "community-wiki"?
https://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/community-wiki
Given the recent change to abolish CW questions, what do we do with these?
Remove the tag.
Get a diamond mod to convert the question
Close the ...
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Add writing in coherant english to FAQ
Following this question could it be added to the FAQ about writing in coherant english? I'm not trying to be a grammer/spelling nazi, and I realise that it does depend on location (i.e. colour/color) ...
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Could Appropriate Tags Cross-Post to Relevant SE Communities?
Since the recent addition of new communities for Unix and Ubuntu within the StackExchange (particularly ServerFault), I propose that tags posted to SF with relevant tags ("Ubuntu", "Solaris", "Unix", ...
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Is it possible to see who upvoted or downvoted a reply?
I'd like to find out whether my reply got downvoted by the same person who upvoted it. As I'm relatively new to ServerFault I'd like to ask the voter to clarify what it is they think I should or ...
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Overly-pedantic edits for spelling, usage, and grammar?
Is there a group opinion (or should there be one) about this situation? I've noticed a user who has a history of editing other people's questions, some of them months old, to replace "javascript" with ...
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Why downvote a question or answer on server fault?
FAQ says "To gain reputation, post good questions and useful answers." Is it valid to downvote an answer because it isn't useful (e.g. doesn't give enough information to help?) Or downvote a question ...
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Pick an easter egg for chat.serverfault!
On chat.meta.stackoverflow, there's a little easter egg where text entered as
[status-blah]
will be rendered as a moderator only tag.
We'd like to do something similar, but specific to ...
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Possible sockpuppet account?
https://serverfault.com/users/31965/rob-van-dam
100 consective day visits, > 400 votes, 0 questions, 0 answers.
Smells either like a sockpuppet, or a consciencous observer. No offense if it's the ...
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Merge 64 bit tags
I've just noticed there are currently 128 64-bit tags and 89 x64 tags. While that's a fair few of each I really think they should be merged before it gets much messier.
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My google-fu is failing me, does anyone have a link to the following question
There was a question and answer from someone who actually worked on the SQL development team where they gave a long list of reasons why not to truncate an MSSQL Log file (it had something to do with ...
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A plea to reopen
Pardon me if this isn't proper etiquette, but I'm not sure where to politic for votes, so when in doubt, meta.
This question of mine was closed as off topic. Perhaps I could have framed it better for ...
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Why is a closed question not closed?
Would it be possible to have a closed question really closed rather than sort of, kinda, nearly, half closed?
This question is currently listed as having been closed 10 hours ago, yet was edited only ...
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Ohio LinuxFest 2010
Will anyone be attending Ohio LinuxFest this year? I plan to attend and am trying to promote SF there.
It looks like it's too late to run a booth, but if there's enough interest this year I'd be ...
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Who do we want to recruit for Server Fault?
Who are industry experts that we want to recruit for Server Fault? These are people who may simply be capable, knowledgeable, and a general benefit to our profession. They do not necessarily have to ...
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What are the top three conferences relevant to SF?
What are the top three IT conferences that are relevant to infrastructure operations?
There is likely to be debate here but we should be able to filter out several useful conferences where SF could ...
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why was the question on dev server setup moved to SU?
Coming from question:
How do I get Windows XP Professional upgrade to boot directly without having to choose it at startup?
Why doesn't this question belong to SF?
It seems to fall into 2 ...
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How to attract more professionals?
This topic has been discussed before but I do not believe it to be exhaustive. During the first chat beta, Jeff Atwood and I were discussing potential areas where SF could be marketed to ...
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Should users <3k flag to migrate?
Currently there are "only" 100 users with >3000 reputation, i.e. who can vote to migrate a question. Everyone else (over 15 anyway) can only flag what seem to be "obvious" migration questions (...
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Possible voting options
I've just been reading a bunch of questions on the various sites regarding the moving and closing of questions. The one point that really stands out is that not everyone is happy about how frequently ...
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Fundamentals tag
This is related to the discussion here
There seems to be a class of question that is more than one that would be asked by someone who really isn't a sysadmin or is just starting their career (where ...
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Networking - always an SF topic?
This fits along the lines of SF and SU having entirely different scopes, and decidedly NOT covering different complexity levels.
If SU is about individual systems, and the troubleshooting of that ...
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Is it appropriate to ask about choice of software on SF?
I see quite a few question about choosing software for one thing or another. I won't single out any in particular, as I'm asking this as a general question. Some are very clearly server related, such ...
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Is this new SF user posting too-many/too-poor questions
Someone quite new popped up on 30th December on SF and since then has posted 12 new questions in the last 9 hours, 25 in the last day and 30 in the last 6 days since the 30th.
Many if not all of ...
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I hereby nominate dickchop as Answer of the Year
https://serverfault.com/posts/165976/revisions
I just love the fact that he went in and edited his answer to change hanging to hangin, but still used the term math's instead of dem number thingos. ...
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What is the correct site for Version Control questions
Since we have our discussion about networking going on I want to add similar question which seems to badly overlap between SF and SO.
There are a lot of VCS questions that are asked or get bumped ...
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When should an answer be flagged?
I'm looking at this answer right here:
Unlimited desktop connections in Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard
I'm wondering if it should be flagged as it advances a method which breaks Microsoft's ...
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Tag Formatting - Best Practices
This has already been brought up and been discussed extensively on Stack Overflow but we're
already starting to see an abundance of duplicate tags with different
formats - sql2005, sql-2005, etc. So ...
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Do SEO, webmaster, etc. questions belong on Server Fault?
Do questions not related directly to system administration, but rather web site administration, SEO, etc. belong on Server Fault?
Return to FAQ Index
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Have we lost critical mass of 3000+ accounts?
Outside of when a moderators step in, I rarely see questions being closed due to receiving votes. Do we not have enough 3000+ rep people on the site or is the 5 vote limit for close too high? I'm ...
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What about server OS questions?
Currently on Super User is this question: Search content of files with unknown extension
The question is asking how to do things with the search tool, in Windows Server 2008. I was wondering if this ...
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