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ServerFault Fundamentalism
There has been a shift in tone in ServerFault over the last few years. When it started, the focus seemed to be on providing an open resource for professional admins to help figure out problems. Now ...
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The never ending flood of "what kind of server do I need for X amount of requests per hour"
These kind of questions just keep pouring in, and the same thing happens every time.
The questioneer never gives out enough details to even guess what kind of spec/bandwith he/she needs, the type of ...
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Why don't people upvote questions they answer?
I've noticed that a lot of questions with several 'answers' aren't upvoted, or are disproportionately upvoted (6 answers, 1 upvote). Is this normal or expected?
To clarify, the question being asked ...
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Our FAQ sucks (so let's fix it!)
OK folks, I have a serious case of FAQ envy. Because of This question I took a good long look at the DBA.SE FAQ for the first time since it came out of beta. Compared to what they've done the front ...
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What's off-topic; anything in a home setting, or anything that was designed for home use?
For our FAQ reshaping, I think we need to decide something:
Do we hurl questions over to Super User based solely on using a consumer-oriented product, even when it's clear that that product is being ...
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Can the opening line in the FAQ be updated to match the About page?
The opening line of the About page says
Server Fault is a question and answer site for professional system and network administrators.
however the opening line of the FAQ says
Server Fault is ...
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You must have 5 reputation to participate on which site again?
The meta.SF FAQ states, in part:
You must have at least 5 reputation on the main website to participate on Server Fault.
Should it not say that you must have 5 reputation on Server Fault to ...
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Voting on the FAQ rewrite, round 2
After a successful edit round, it is time to vote on the results. The text below is the edited text we've worked on for the past week.
This will be open until UTC 0:00 Friday (3 days!) to gather ...
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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?
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What's the etiquette for duplicate questions?
I just answered a question, and then later someone voted it down and noted that it was a duplicate.
Is there a recommended way for an "answerer" to deal with this? i.e. if I find that my answer is ...
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FAQ Rewrite edit round 1
Since the FAQ as-written was not accepted, we get to have an edit round.
The below is a grammar/spelling/punctuation checked version of the FAQ.
The edit process:
Proposed edits will be submitted ...
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FAQ Rewrite - Round 3
The Words and links below have been incorporated into the FAQ
The proposed FAQ has been officially rejected by the power that be. They had an interesting choice of words for the previous edit. The ...
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ServerFault - rules for questions without accepted answers?
I looked in the FAQs section and searched, but maybe I'm missing it.
I've noticed a lot of questions that have great answers that have been voted up 5-20 times for the answer, but the original ...
TheCleaner
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Can we have a place for "definitive" questions
There are a number of questions and topics that are now regularly closed as dupes of some generally accepted definitive question. As an example, new licensing question get closed pretty quickly as ...
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Moving questions between sites
How to move question between serverfault and stackoverflow?
Is it possible (maybe I don't have enough rep. to see this option)?
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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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Is ServerFault an appropriate place to ask about...
This isn't obvious to me from the FAQ, so I'd like to know if SF is a good place to ask these kinds of questions:
Why does KB-xyzzy not install on our mail server? Here are the error codes I get... (...
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Do we need a long-form FAQ?
As the blowout over here suggested, people are still considering the FAQ to be the definitional document of a site. As in: the document that defines once and for all what's topical and what's not.
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Voting on the FAQ rewrite
The FAQ is a very, very important document. It forms the topical-foundation of ServerFault in the way that a constitution forms the foundation of a country's legal system. Because of this, changes to ...
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Questions to help build up the SF repo?
So during the beta is it desirable to put questions in for others to answer that we might already know the answer to? I know that one of the big things is for search engines (Google, etc) to index ...
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Is there an RSS / ATOM feed for new questions?
Is there an RSS / ATOM feed for new questions?
There is a feed on StackOverflow that is really useful. Is there an equivalent on SeverFault?
Sorry if this is a duplicate or already in the FAQ but I ...
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What should users do to move questions to the more appropriate site?
I don't see this question clearly asked and answered anywhere, it's certainly not in the ServerFault FAQ where I was trying to find it.
From reading some of the stuff on meta, it seems that:
the ...
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Where are feature changes to StackExchange announced?
This was answered in a comment by Robert Cartaino, I wanted to repeat it in an easier-to-find location.
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Filling out the FAQ-tag, professional style
We need to fill in the faq tag. What we have in there is pretty minimal, and we need to find some questions that do a good job of covering some of the nuances of how things work around there.
So I ...
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You migrated my question from Serverfault to SuperUser.com. How do I read it?
I asked a question here this morning and got about 5 good responses right away. I just came back to check in on it and it's marked Closed, Migrated to SuperUser.com.
There's even a link, but it just ...
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Foreign language question/answers?
I don't wish to appear ignorant, but does anyone know whether foreign language questions and answers are allowed? Or do they have to remain in the sites native English language?
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Can we update the "deleted answer" FAQ?
For answers to moved questions, the answer is deleted on ServerFault and you see:
Why was your post deleted? See the faq.
The FAQ does not cover this scenario, instead berating you for providing a ...
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Proxy server question, Is Serverfault the correct place to ask?
Would it be acceptable to ask about Squid Proxy configuration? specifically related to Delay buckets and bandwidth caps.
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