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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Community Promotion Ads - 2015
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Many old questions getting additional proftpd/vsftpd tags
There seems to be a rash of questions recently getting resurrected by the addition of either a vsftpd or a proftpd tag.
Let me be clear: I don't refer to previously-untagged questions; those are ...
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Honeypotting Serverfault for questions that should not be asked! Should this stop?
A recent thread of mine on ServerFault has raised an eyebrow regarding the lack of support for server software, which i was intentionally misled here due to search results on google hooking into all ...
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Why do people think questions about cPanel/WHM is the same as questions about cPanel?
The 'off-topic' blah blah, warns of cPanel as being off topic, so it allows moderators to just brush by a post, see the word 'cPanel', and put on hold / etc on the fly.
Yes, moderators rush through a ...
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Why was this flag declined? [duplicate]
This is about a particular flag about this answer that got declined:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxErhxEbQcA&feature=plcp is a good video. Start at ep 11 and work your way through the SSL bits....
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How to ask my question but obfuscate my real data
I asked one question about my DNS records and was forced to substitute my real domain name and IP with fake data like 111.111.111.111 & bar.com.
One user didn't welcome that and made me -1, so I ...
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re-open for the sake of searchable community knowledge [closed]
As foreseen, I am pleased how others have contributed to and evolved this mini project:
Supports both IPv6 and IPv4
ipset rather than iptables
state files no longer required.
https://gist.github....
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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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How should we deal with old link-only answers?
Sometimes I come across old answers with little more than a link to another site. And sometimes these answers have been upvoted multiple times.
The answer I most recently came across said only this
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On hold for a valid question conforming to guidelines
Im certain that the answers of several of the "power members" of the community are not in a good light in this question I have asked, but they can edit their responses.
https://serverfault.com/...
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Why is my question closed as 'too broad'?
My question here:
Are HDD <-> SSD transfer speeds completely bottlenecked by HDD speed?
is very specific but was closed as 'too broad'. Maybe it doesn't look like every other question that is ...
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How to fix a question?
About a year ago, after reading the FAQs, I'd posted a question (link) here.
Apparently it wasn't a very good question because it got closed shortly thereafter. The reason was that it didn't "...
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Is a question about installing Apache modules on topic here?
I have a question to ask about installing the mod_wsgi module for Apache on Centos 7, so that I can write a python web server. I wanted to make sure it would be on topic here before asking it though. ...
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What about jobs for system administrators?
Please don't close this question as duplicate, and also please don't post answers here. This is only a pointer to remind ServerFault users that this topic is being discussed elsewhere, because it ...
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How to handle situations where a user needs professional support and you are willing to provide it?
This has happened to me several times already, and I think I'm not the only one.
A (possibly new) user comes by with a question which clearly shows he is way out of his depth and he needs ...
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I do not understand what going on recently in site
I do not understand what going on recently in site.
I suppose that site is to help people.
I do not understand why people close questions.
If you will continue to close questions people will go to ...
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Cleanup duplicate tags: different by hyphenation and pluralization
Inspired by bad-tag-cleanup project by our awesome mod, here I suggest the idea to cleanup duplicate tags:
Different by one or hyphen, for example port-forwarding vs portforwarding and mod-security ...
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Should the XAMPP tag be removed?
Should the xampp tag be removed?
I can flag a question as off-topic with the following reason:
Questions on Server Fault must be about managing information technology systems in a business ...
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I'm tired of answering questions with: "Upgrade the firmware" or "Run updates"
...or sometimes both!
ESXi 5.1 crashing (bug fixed by updates)
Installing XenServer 6.2 on Proliant DL160G6 freezes during "Installing from base pack" (firmware)
Disconnected Network ...
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Questions regarding running Apache on Windows
We get several questions a day from people trying to run Apache on Windows platforms. Excluding WAMP questions (which are already off-topic), should we allow questions about running Apache on Windows?
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VirtualBox cleanup
This is long overdue...
There are currently 757 open questions under the virtualbox tag.
From a quick skim through some of them, it appears that the majority of them should be closed as off-topic, ...
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What is the added value of the documentation tag?
What is the added value of the documentation tag?
To me it is too generic and does not add any value. Could this be removed please?
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My ideas and suggestions to the well-going massive content destruction
For example, you could continue this by closing/deleting of every hardware question, saying that a professional system administrator doesn't make his hands dirty with dusty server parts.
Then, you ...
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Answerer's answer locked for the chattiness of others
I have participated in a long comment chain under a specific answer to the HNQ question Why is my bare-metal 16x 2.93GHz cores computer performing poorer than a VPS with 4x 2.5GHz cores?.
This answer ...
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Off Topic Migration to Security Stackexchange
It is not often, but it can occur that a post belong to Security Stackexchange.
What about adding it to the migration list ?
It would fit the empty space !
Some examples this week:
Why are some ...
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Merge mod-pagespeed and page-speed or change tooltip
There are different tags for mod-pagespeed and page-speed, but these seem largely the same tag. They should be synonymed.
this is the tootip infos
mod-pagespeed
PageSpeed Module speeds up your ...
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Unsupported setup, is it a valid question?
I recently asked a question about a combination of disks & server which is not vendor-supported (link here), in short adding EOL disks from another vendor to servers currently in use. The setup ...
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Negative vote & comments
I noticed that it became common to see newcomer posts with negative votes, and no comments to explain it.
Sometimes i even wonder why some good questions get downvoted without reason.
Is there a ...
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What's wrong with ServerFault? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How do we grow the Server Fault and Super User communities?
This discussion illustrated some of the issues. Here are my thoughts on SF's problems:
There aren't enough ...
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Merge vhost and virtualhost
There are different tags for vhost and virtualhost, but these seem largely the same tag. They should be synonymed.
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Question about ReadyNAS being inaccessible was put on hold as "off-topic" — what to do?
I spent a lot of time reading the rules and requirements, and feel like my question is right in line with Server Fault's regulations for a question.
Can anyone help me out here? I tried to ask for ...
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Why images/screenshots wasn't embedded in most questions/answers? Is it a bad practice?
I'm not sure about people who are proficient in English. But as a person who isn't very good at it, I feel refreshed whenever I found images related to the content. It usually made me understand the ...
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I need a script to do...!
Our community has taken a liking to re-enforcing the misconception that ServerFault is a script writing service. Examples here and here are just a couple recent threads I can point to.
I have no ...
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Moderation Review Request - Apache Question
A while back I flagged this Apache question as more suitable for StackOverflow. The flag was declined as "moderator found no evidence to support". However, looking back on it now, it was answered ...
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Should we refer to U&L in the "managing information technology systems in a business environment" off-topic reason?
I'm seeing a lot of questions that are just trivial "how do I use <Unix tool X>" questions, where X is things like curl, rsync, etc. Most of these are getting closed as OT, "not managing IT ...
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Create [hostgator] tag?
I see there is a [dreamhost] tag. That's useful: I like to see what issues of [mediawiki] users are host-specific, because certain shared hosts can be quite painful.
I notice there are 200 questions ...
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Getting a bit too snarky
Can people stop being quite so snarky when answering questions please? There has been a noticeable increase in answers that begin with snarky/preachy statements followed by an answer, as well as ...
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Where do questions regarding labs for enterprise equipment & software belong if not SF?
So this is in regards to https://serverfault.com/questions/733438/nested-esxi-vlan-trunking-not-working, which was closed because it was considered off topic. I had a chance to discuss this with EEAA, ...
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Why is this question on "determing number of domains under a registrar" OffTopic for Serverfault?
https://serverfault.com/questions/732948/number-of-domains-under-a-registrar-how-do-you-determine-this
I am getting more than a little irritated by the Hold on a perfectly reasonable questions that ...
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Is there an SF use report that shows
Is there an SF report that shows the number of posts catagorized by buckets in reputation score? I.E. how many posts coming users within each month with reputation values from 0-100, 100-1000, 1000-...
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Can I take the on-topic summary at face value?
From the help on what's on-topic for Server Fault (emphasis quoted):
Server Fault is for questions about managing information technology systems in a business environment.
Just considering this ...
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Most recent questions on home page
Question for those with more experience than I here: why in the last few days are many of the questions on the home page many years old? I'd really rather see recent questions on the home page; am I ...
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Why don't we use the windows-server tag?
A moderator recently removed the windows-server tag from one of my questions, and I see there are in fact no questions currently tagged windows-server. Why is this? I've searched meta and couldn't ...
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The "closed" review queue is zero
This seems unusual in that the number of posts to review is generally at least 100. Just wondering if there were any trends on SF that might be applicable? Is the posting volume down?
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Is IIS exempt from the ban on "web control panel" questions?
I was looking at the reasons for closing some questions as off topic and I was wondering why the Microsoft web hosting technology IIS was exempt from the list as mentioned in the answer to this ...
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When an IT administrator needs help handling an issue with one of the user accounts she manages, can she ask a question here?
Imagine a world in which J, an IT administrator, manages the computing cluster for a handful of labs at a major research university in the United States.
Now imagine that a scientist in one of these ...
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Where should I ask this question
I posted a question earlier that was almost immediately deleted due to off topic. While the question does originate from a home environment, I suspect a Verizon backbone connectivity issue is HARDLY ...
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Do readers of the password-management tag want a new community?
Over in area51 a debate is going on about this:
https://area51.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/21958/why-a-proposal-for-identity-access-management-makes-sense
If you read the password-management ...
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What should we do with questions about Vagrant?
We have, at last count, 335 questions tagged vagrant.
As far as I know, for the most part this is a tool used by developers to create developer environments, and not something that is useful in ...
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