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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Is "don't personally know the answer to this question" a reason to close? How to stop it?
I ask a "practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face" and it just gets closed -- and it's been tagged a "discussion" question.
Well, it's a discussion question if you don't ...
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Legal issues upon capturing digital proof upon hosting services scam
Is ServerFault the wrong place to ask for advice of ...
how should someone register/capture digital scam proof to be legally
sustainable and enough for building a case with a Consumer Protection
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Sudo issue was closed - reason?
I asked this question, and it was closed and deleted.
I ask myself: Who hates progress, improvements and changes?
https://serverfault.com/questions/846453/alterantive-to-sudo-which-allows-regular-...
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Excessive moderation? Closing questions as: "Ask vendor"
Here's what I'm talking about: https://serverfault.com/questions/676085/google-and-amazon-equivalent-of-azure-cloud-services
One of the comments I got was that I should 'ask vendor'. Isn't this true ...
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Question migration
If, hypothetically speaking, I will ask a question on a SF "I plan to set up an Oracle Exadata installation at my home, [...]" - will it be forcefully migrated to the SU ?
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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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Can useful, on-topic questions become off-topic through new information? [closed]
If a person A asks a question which they understand to be on-topic, then later on some person B finds out that the question would have been off-topic if the asker A had prior knowledge that B now has, ...
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Need to revisit rules regarding hosted servers
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This post (https://serverfault.com/questions/807412/backups-running-out-of-disk-space-possible-to-mount-a-network-drive) was flagged as off-topic due to
Questions involving ...
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tired of having questions closed -- please refine your FAQ
Is it not reasonable to assume that if there's a TAG here, a question relating to the subject of that TAG is
"on topic"?
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Why close questions?
Why do people close questions here when they are not fully answered? Why is it not a real question to ask why a server stops running after one day and to ask for the reason? Why is it not possible to ...
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Why is this IP question off topic? [closed]
This question is about IPv9, asking specifically if there is a history for the famous April Fool's joke and the Chinese adoption story. It was closed as off topic in a surprisingly short time by a ...
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I was asked to discuss my question in meta
What secure and good options are there for hosting own private mail server?
Somehow the questions asked are not related to the topic of the forum which is for questions about:
managing the hardware ...
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Overzealous Moderation - Thread wrongly put on hold
https://serverfault.com/questions/820124/how-can-i-get-access-to-a-new-version-of-mysqldump-on-a-server-that-is-out-of-da
My question appears to me to be:
Concerning information technology systems
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Why is there just one person allowed to close off a question?
I asked a reasonable question here - How to allocate memory properly on a windows server running XAMPP?
What does this close reason mean and how do things get closed with one vote?
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Can anything be done about mods robo-rejecting edits that are objective improvements?
I donated about an hour or two of my time improving questions (and a few answers) here.
I removed words from titles that aren't allowed.
I fixed spelling problems in titles.
I removed extraneous ...
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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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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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Downvote + on hold for my questions
I have posted https://serverfault.com/questions/823389/how-to-route-traffic-between-my-nics-on-linux-which-connected-to-proxy-server?noredirect=1#comment1049296_823389 and got marked as "on hold" ...
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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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Please add feature to make a question visible at more than one site
Crossposting is frowned upon since the old news:// times.
However, between StackOverflow, SuperUser, and Serverfault there are some grey zones as this answer nicely highlights.
Of course, I have a ...
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OK, so I just edited my on-hold question
I wrote this question 24 hours ago and amazingly, no less than FIVE of the mods put it "on hold." Apparently I wasn't specific enough in pointing out that this was a BUSINESS QUESTION.
I ...
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Systematic downvotes?
I recently had a bad thread which has now been deleted (by me).
Since then, I'm getting a pattern of down-votes on really old threads, some of which are greater than 3+ months. I believe this is ...
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Bad rejection: Moderators should probably err on the side of inclusion, not on the side of rejection
A few days ago, I came across a question on serverfault with an answer I thought good, but could be improved.
And indeed, the software asked me to improve the question. So I did. I clarified and gave ...
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Benefit of closing this question?
I know, my question is a bit vague.
Compare two /etc/ directories
I want to compare the difference of the configuration of two linux operating systems.
I understand that you want serverFault to be ...
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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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Proposed Question: What RFCs should a IT Professional know by number?
I plan on asking a question that goes something like: if you're an IT Pro what RFC numbers should you have memorized?
Example
In the SMTP/Sendmail community it is common to say RFC 821, or 2821 ...
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Should downvotes be moderated?
I've been here for about a month and I've already realised how easy is to downvote for no reason and how some people freely do it.
This may cause some problems sometimes (mainly for questions) as a -...
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Should licencing questions really be closed even when it is massive vendor with standard practices worldwide? [duplicate]
Correct licensing if users have multiple AD accounts
Take this question for example, nothing to do with legal technicalities but a basic premise of whether microsoft count admin users twice. (Which ...
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Moderation Overkill on serverfault
In my office, full of engineers and sysops, we figure that stackexchange has already died.
Here is example of the day (far from the only one):
https://serverfault.com/questions/542572/jemalloc-error-...
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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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Proposed new language for FAQ
At the request of Stack Exchange staff --who like the changes I have proposed-- I am posting this here for discussion.
The SF FAQ, in my opinion, is seriously flawed and really needs updating. Like ...
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what do you do when a serverfault moderator posts negative, ad hominem comments on your question?
Also, in an attempt to redirect the attention and purpose of the question back to the question itself, I replied to the detracting comments by bringing up my original dilemma again, but then this ...
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question downvoting
I'm kinda new to stackexchange, but I'm constantly seeing people downvoting questions. More than a half questions are downvoted right from the start. I personally think that asking a question requires ...
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Suggestion: helping amateurs to get their way to SU / unix SE
As we can see for example here, a considerable part of the non-professional, or non-sysadmins are coming here only because they don't know, where is the exact place of their questions. They don't have ...
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I was in the midst of answering a question when my answer was deleted. Why?
I was working on this answer. The only sin I can imagine that I was committing was saving too frequently the work in progress in case I am dragged away from my desk by a more serious fire that needs ...
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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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Does irrationality have to be contagious?
So, to summarize the story, there was a perfectly clear question about a feature in demand
https://serverfault.com/questions/647891/make-fail2ban-use-public-blacklists
looking for a method to block ...
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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 must it always be this way? [duplicate]
You don't like the question, or you think no answer exists, so you slam some ridiculous cut and paste text that doesn't even remotely apply, and you put the question on hold.
Go to any meta page for ...
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Why is my question getting downvoted?
I recently asked this question about SpamAssassin and its sa-learn utility. I thought it was a very well written, but yet it has a negative vote. In fact, It's been downvoted multiple times. How do I ...
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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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Recent changes of site moderation behavior
I experienced multiple changes on the sites behavior. I am suspecting the changes to the last moderator election, but I don't think there must exist also a causal link.
The changes:
There is much ...
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editing other user's posts for completely trivial reasons
I'm relatively new to serverfault/stackexchange, though not to systems administration. I've posted only a few answers here so far. In the last day, two of my posts were edited by other users. I get it,...
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Why does EEEA get to do what ever he wants and close questions because he wants proof of troubleshooting? [closed]
The title says it all. Why does this site allow EEEA to close comments until he receives proof like he is a judge.
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My reputation is 666; how do I change it? [closed]
I've noticed today that my reputation on ServerFault corresponds to the number of the beast.
It makes me very unhappy.
I don't have in mind any interesting ServerFault-related question which could ...
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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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What to do with moderators who act based on personal tastes? [closed]
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EEAA believed that it was off topic. Actually it's pretty pertinent to serverfault, and you can learn as a sysadmin, how to avoid users to circumvent your protection. One can both learn and ...
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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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Arguing with a moderator always turns out the same way: your question is closed
I've had this happen many, many times, but just recently I asked quite a rudimentary question on ServerFault and someone who turned out to be a moderator answered me.
His answer confused me and I ...
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