Questions tagged [support]
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The bad tag collection
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Ok, we have a lot of bad tags. I found at least half a dozen without trying over the weekend. Some of these tags have hundreds of questions in them, meaning that it will take a dev so that we ...
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What bad tags in need of burnination do we still have hanging around?
Similar to the old "bad tag collection" thread, I'm looking for suggestions/submissions of tags we still have hanging around on Server Fault, that we would be better off not having in ...
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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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Why am I close to being banned from serverfault?
I saw the below message just now when about to ask a question on the site:
Wait! Some of your past questions have not been well-received, and you're in danger of being blocked from asking any more.
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How many "bad" questions come from unregistered users versus registered users?
To quote from mSO, since my request is pretty much identical:
I would like to have statistics for the quality of posts coming from
unregistered versus registered accounts on my site.
It is ...
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Is there recourse to a user making persistent trivial edits?
This user is repeatedly spamming the front page making trivial edits like this. I'm assuming he's just "farming" the Copy Editor badge, but it's unnecessary and annoying. Can a mod slap him on the ...
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Cross-posting to unix.stackexchange.com?
If I have a question that is Unix sysadmin related. It's not clear to me whether it should go to serverfault or unix.stackexchange.com. Is cross-posting acceptable? The specific question I have in ...
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Question closed as not constructive / locked
A question that had been asked about 3 years ago (Sep 11 2009) and that I answered last week as just been closed as not constructive: Functional implications of differences in SSL and TLS
This is a ...
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Can't vote again if previous vote has expired?
I just came across this question, which in my opinion is pure programming and therefore belongs on SO. I went to vote accordingly and was informed that I had already voted on it, even though it shows ...
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Tag synonym/merge: virtual{host,hosts,-hosting,-hosts}
These tags all seem to refer to the same things, and people are using all of them interchangeably. Personally, I'd have picked the one that nobody seems to have gone for virtual-host but I guess I'm ...
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Why is reputation for bounty taken away even if nothing is awarded?
Why is reputation offered up as bounty taken away even if the bounty is never awarded? Even after offering a bounty, I received only one answer to my question. In fact, the "answer" mostly just asked ...
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Who is removing a tag I use?
There was an hpsa tag, until a few days ago, that I was tagging my questions about HP's Server Automation Software suite with. Someone went through and replaced it with hp.
Today, (~7 hours ago) I re-...
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Why was my edit rejected?
I suggested an edit to an answer that improved it IMO quite a bit, but not enough to merit a separate post:
https://serverfault.com/review/suggested-edits/150104
It got rejected because it was "...
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Why does the careers 2.0 site cater to programmers only?
Apparently, I'd need an invitation to create a profile there. That's fine, I've been around stackoverflow, got a bit of score on SF, shouldn't be a problem, right? Moreover, there are career postings ...
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Kill [sysadmin] tag on SF with fire
I humbly request that the sysadmin tag on Serverfault be killed with fire.
Currently 384 questions tagged with it. I expect quite a few of them may have been migrated to SF.
EDIT:
Any other ...
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Christmas Hats 2013 Edition!
It's December!
For the past couple of years, many SF'ers have added Santa hats to their Gravatars For Christmas. Feel free to join in, here are the hats we've used in the past:
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Accepted status-answered boxes are not clearly visible
Here is how to looks on my serverfault profile (/users/%/%?tab=questions&sort=newest):
The problem is, that answered questions are not clearly visible between those which are accepted and which ...
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Proposals regarding the Amazon and related tags
The amazon tag is being misused in a similar manner to the vmware tag in that questions tagged amazon are not about the company but the services that they provide.
There are several related Amazon ...
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How to deal with people that don't accept your reasoning?
User peterh doubted my reasons and decided to engage in an edit war with me, ultimately downvoting my question. I used an image instead of the text because, as explained, I don't want my client's FQDN ...
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I am being spammed
One of my answers has become the target for a spam bot. Twice today, once yesterday and several more times in the recent past an Anonymous user has suggested an edit which is basically a set of spam ...
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Death to the homework tag!
On the basis of the answer my previous question (and the SO blog post linked to therein), I've bulldozed all homework tags from questions on serverfault. Anyone with the appropriate mod bits want to ...
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Please block the amazon tag
We did some work to remove the plain amazon tag recently but yesterday 2 questions appeared with the tag. Can the amazon tag be blocked please?
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How often are the community ads supposed to run?
I have only the lamest colloquial proof, but I don't think the community ads are coming up. I haven't seen them. When I asked in chat, nobody else had seem them. The stats page doesn't indicate how ...
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rss feed for the serverfault blog double posts
The Server Fault blog RSS feed always comes up twice in Google reader (with different timestamps)...The stackoverflow blog rss doesn't do this...anyone else have this problem?
From my screenshot, ...
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Help with mass retagging of FTP related posts
As discussed here, I've been going through posts tagged with "ftp", and adding FTP server-specific tags (e.g. "proftpd", "pureftpd", and "vsftpd") where relevant. There are many such posts, and the ...
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What, in summary, are we supposed to do to clean up tags?
I know it's not a good question title...
I'd like to have a question and short answer here on meta.SF that explains what - if anything - people can or should do to clean up tags. I've seen blog ...
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Go forth and review please
The recent changes to the /review system have helped us to clean up SF somewhat thanks everyone for your support.
Despite several people using their full daily allocation of reviews there is one ...
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Why was a question I answered automatically deleted?
A few minutes ago I noticed the mysterious disappearance of 65 reputation from my Server Fault account. On looking into it, I found that this question, which I'd answered last month, had been deleted. ...
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Request to merge my unregistered account with registered one, please
My unregistered account is https://serverfault.com/users/243018/johnz.
My registered account is https://serverfault.com/users/243033/johnz.
It would be really beneficial if the unregistered one ...
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Merge unregistered user account
I read that it is "strongly encouraged" to merge unregistered accounts to registered ones. It seems a little bit odd to me to request this through posting a regular question, but if this really is the ...
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Questions belonging to intersection of webmasters.stackexchange and ServerFault
Hi,
Almost every webmaster deals with a server. So if he has a question regarding his server (like the following example), which site should he ask on: webmasters.stackexchange OR ServerFault.
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Answer for Question With Bounty is in Comments
Recently, I added a bounty to the below linked question (asked by me), and in the process, someone correctly answered my question, in the comments, rather than posting it as an actual answer. I would ...
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StackExchange Link Error
Shenanigans aside on the meta board. :) I get this message pretty frequently when I click on the StackExchange logo at the top. If I click on the error to dismiss, I can then click on any of the links,...
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Tag Cleanup - Microsoft System Center Suite
scom, sccm, and scvmm all follow the same naming convention. DPM should as well.
dpm => scdpm
dpm-2010 -> scdpm
scom-2007-r2 -> scom
system-center-essentials -> sce
I haven't seen any questions ...
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Why the code in my answer is not color-highlighted?
This is the question I'm referring to: the answer I provided contains some valid C code.
It is intended with 8 space chars.
The code is not colored as it does usually (at least on stackoverflow).
Did ...
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How can I accept answers to my questions?
Please help me increase my acceptance rate. How do I accept answers to my questions?
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Are the rg tags getting out of control on ServerFault?
Possible Duplicate:
legitimate ways for users to protest irrelevant sponsorship of tags
Ok, fine, Redgate has tools for Exchange and SQL Server, so maybe it makes sense to have the annoying ...
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Lost reputation "User was removed"
I have lost 10 rep and I don't know why. The message is "User was removed". What does that mean?
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How do I create a new tag?
I have an idea for a new tag. I think adding this tag would improve Server Fault. How do I add this tag? I am not finding documentation of how to do this.
Topics I would like to know about creating a ...
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In what cases am I meant to downvote a question?
If a question seems interesting to me, or potentially practical, I vote it up and may star it. If it does not (by being outside of my field of interest/competention) I just go my way ignoring it. If a ...
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Why am I not able to ask any more questions? [duplicate]
I am a young programmer being paid to do some sysadmin work. I am active on stackoverflow, and so when I had a question, I came to serverfault. I asked three questions. Each recieved one downvote, and ...
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How do I find out if my Questions\Answers have been edited
This has been bugging me for a while, I can't see anyway find out which of my contributions have been edited by someone else. I'd like to be able to check any edits to see if they have made material ...
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I think my question was mistakenly closed and moved to SuperUser
I believe my question was mistakenly closed and moved to SuperUser. The FAQ states that questions about
managing the hardware or software of servers, workstations, storage or networks
tools used for ...
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Question closed, but it was a complete question that could be answered
So I have this question, https://serverfault.com/revisions/430754/1, and it got closed.
Here is an forum question related to what I'm asking (this first post tells it all) http://www.webpagetest.org/...
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Will someone please add this tag? tickzoom
Can someone add the tag tickzoom at stackexchange?
I don't have enough reputation yet to add the tag.
Why? We developers at tickzoom want to track the specific tag tickzoom so we can watch for ...
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