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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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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What does the community think about the recent review queue change?
A few minutes ago, SE has raised the rep threshold for answers to not appear in the late answer review queue. This resulted in a 3.5k long review queue.
What do you think about this?
(I'll intend ...
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But What About Otto? Can we hate that yet?
Since SF likes to play whack-a-mole with products that it doesn't like, let's get the decision to hate Otto out of the way early.
Otto, if you hadn't heard, is the successor to Vagrant.
I think this ...
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Are questions about legacy products inherently off-topic on Server Fault?
A simple yes or no question:
Are questions about legacy products inherently off-topic?
For instance we regularly get new questions about windows-server-2003 which ran out of extended support in ...
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How should I review First Posts?
I keep finding myself inside the review queue of First Posts, and then not knowing what to do. If there are grammatical or formatting issues, those are easy - and I edit the question/answer and fix ...
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Question closed as "off topic"
I would like to know why https://serverfault.com/questions/361682/secure-sysadmin-friendly-registrar was closed as offtopic.
Reasons I see for not closing it are:
One linked, similar, question was ...
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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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How many moderators do we need?
The moderator election states that there are two positions open. With the recent loss of Chopper3, this means that this is a net gain of 1.
There's some discussion with regard to the specific count ...
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Inactive mods on SF - Or are they?
An interesting discussion just spun up on the SF chat, which clearly showed that some of us have strong feelings about how this site should be moderated - and who's job it is.
We have certain mods ...
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2015 Community Moderator Election Results
Server Fault's fifth moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the 3 new moderators are:
They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for ...
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Marking a old question answered when the OP told it's?
I would like to ask if for question that the OP told it work, but didnt marked it answered, if moderator's should mark it. As I seen the "Community" user keep them pooping in the active's question ...
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Should reverse-dns and ptr-record be merged?
The tags reverse-dns and ptr-record are obviously highly related. Are they so related to each other, that it would be better to have them merged as a single tag?
If it is desirable to keep them as ...
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Tag reverse is ambiguous
The reverse tag has been used with at least three different meanings. Reverse DNS, reverse proxy, reverse port-forwarding.
I think the tag needs to go. Should it just be removed, or should questions ...
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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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closed because the questioner didnt search
So it seems ok for someone to answer a question to use google http://meta.serverfault.com/questions/6124/should-someone-post-an-answer-when-all-they-did-was-google-fu
But if a user does not use ...
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Tag "remote" is ridiculous
Similar to kasperd's recent observation that the 'reverse' tag is ambiguous, I'd like to solicit additional opinions about remote, which recently came to my attention because someone proposed a tag ...
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Where would I ask a broad question about maintaining new technologies
I'm looking for a proper platform to ask about the maintainability of a multitude of technologies as the amount of differing platforms increases.
Most notably, I'm looking into some usage case for ...
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What is it about this Answer that qualifies it as being low quality?
I'm getting irritated with the review system. It seems inconsistent at best. Review feedback is even worse, completely unintuitive.
I've been hit by this review audit before. I gave the same ...
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Is the new 'Documentation' thingy something we might also be interested in?
A recent SO blog-post pointed out a new thing I had missed. Apparently StackOverflow is getting into the documentation business.
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/303865/warlords-of-...
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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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Flag declined on a question
I just wanted to ask if for that question, flagging it as 'unclear' was ok ? (How can I configure each Windows user to have unique ip address)
My flag got declined, and later @womble asked the user ...
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My question was "put on hold as off-topic"
I posted my question mac osx - Docker OS X - Is your docker daemon up and running? - Server Fault on ServerFault, yet my question was put on hold due to:
put on hold as off-topic by kce, EEAA♦ 37 ...
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Why is there so much focus on low-quality questions at-large?
It's election time and I read a bunch of meta.
I noticed that there seems to be a lot of focus by hi-rep users and moderators on low quality questions. Much of those discussions involve laments by ...
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Asking how to block Microsofts Telemetry/ Data collection/ Privacy Invasion push for older domain clients?
Is this not allowed?
Is this a business question or not? I got negative for a genuine business question that involves privacy from MS and no responses -
https://serverfault.com/questions/718232/...
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2015 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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Merge [tag:hacking] into [tag:security]
hacking isn't substantively different from security in context, and it should be made a synonym. Shall it be done?
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Is [tag:block] useful?
I noticed that we have a block tag. The word by itself is ambiguous, and the tag has no description. Can that tag be turned into something useful, or should it go?
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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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