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Request to merge or synonym tags: [mongo] and [mongodb]
Please merge or synonym these tags:
mongo
mongodb
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Ampersand is mangled beyond recognition
An ampersand & when displayed in a question title is, I believe, un-recognisable!
Obviously they don't get used in question titles very often, or I'm sure I would have noticed this before.
What ...
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Please delete [tag:fusion]
I noticed earlier that there was a fusion tag. The tag had been used 6 times and was used exclusively to reference VMware Fusion. I have changed all occurrences of fusion to vmware-fusion to make it ...
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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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Why was my question regarding premium domains closed?
My question regarding premium domain names was closed less than five minutes after I asked it for being "subjective and argumentative," with nothing but a single down vote to tell me why. I understand ...
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late +100 reputation
Recently i was given 100 rep to my ServerFault account for being associated with rest of StackExchange network. But, my account has been associated since the beginning. How did these points really ...
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Please delete [tag:tweaking]
tweaking has been recently created - please burninate it before it picks up too many uses.
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How to flag users for mod attention (for editing vandals)
Over the last days, I had a few attempts of vandalizing questions/answers in my "approve edit" queue. This morning, it was the user "gnu" for three times and I wonder what to do about this. Just ...
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Why doesn't Serverfault have "Review" like Stackoverflow?
I've seen that Stackoverflow has a new feature which is "Reviews" to see rookies questions like mines.
Why doesn't Serverfault have that same link? Or is it a matter of privileges?
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Is there an appropriate place for System Administration career oriented questions?
As I understand it, ServerFault is reserved for technical questions that are specific to the professional support of systems, network and desktop infrastructure in a business environment. Where does ...
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Do mods now have to write nice emails to spammers?
I just noticed I can no longer quickly suspend spammers, I have to write an email to them (most have invalid emails anyway).
I know this is to appease the few users per year who, when their first 5 ...
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http://stackoverflow.com/q/5843110/529215 [closed]
https://stackoverflow.com/q/5843110/529215
sorry guys i dont know how to migrated from the stack over flow site please refer the url
thanks in advance
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tags with plus (+)
The tags help box (shown when editing tags) says tags can contain +, but when I type a tag like "lost+found", it tries to use two tags, "lost" and "found".
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How long does it take before a new question appears on my profile?
I asked a question Sharepoints use of the ads wwwhomepage attr about 3 hours ago. I came back to see if there was an answer. I mean come on, thats the point right? Impatience!
Anyway, I did not ...
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When should Links be provided in Answers?
I tried looking around on the FAQs and in previous Meta questions but couldn't find something directly answering this question.
I have seen some answers to questions which provide NO actual answer ...
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What is the scope of server-related software questions that are considered on-topic at ServerFault?
I am a mod on StackOverflow, and we get a lot of "Belongs on ServerFault" flags there. I would like some clarification on what kind of server software questions are considered on-topic here.
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How active is the serverfault community?
I recently began to use StackExchange sites and I'm really happy with them, both contributing and receiving help.
But I have realized that ServerFault questions and answers receives much less ...
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Negative reputation
Is this normal!?
Upon visiting the negative reputation profiles a positive reputation has been displayed.
About Opera
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Does the voters tab show everyone who's voted?
Or does it show only those who have cast, say, 5 votes? If it's everyone, it seems like 14 people voting so far this week is very very low.
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Why was this packet sniffing question closed?
How can I filter https when monitoring traffic with Wireshark?
Why was this question closed? Seems perfectly valid to me...
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I would like the URLs to your blogs
I'm looking to compile a list of blogs that users here write as I'd like to follow them. If you are an active member and want to share your sites to be followed, please post them below.
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Major retag projects
Our top three tags:
linux
apache
windows
Each of those three arguably has some kind of more meaningful version breakdown, and are in effect meta-tags defining which world the question resides in ...
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Is the editing function broken?
I was cruising the front page, and ran into this answer. A user with 67 rep edited an answer. According to the privileges page and my own recollection, you shouldn't be able to do that until you ...
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Scope of questions for serverfault
Are only questions about server administration allowed on the serverfault site? I have noticed a lot of desktop configuration or administration questions have been closed.
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Retag request: change [sharedfolders] to [shared-folders]
Retagging a question on SF, I noticed the tag sharedfolders, and it should have a hyphen in between, as they are two separate words, right?
Can we retag all sharedfolders to shared-folders?
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Random idea: add tags of any question asked to user's 'favourites'?
I've a suggestion/idea for a feature that might come in useful, and would appreciate other's feedback.
I've marked a few tags as favourite and see that questions tagged with those are highlighted ...
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Who is going to PICC? [closed]
As PICC( Professional IT Community Conference by LOPSA-NJ) draws near, I figure it would be interesting to see how many "Serverfaulters"will be going and who I'd be running into. I'm going, and I'd ...
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I no longer see any link or button to add comments - is it my browser, or the site?
I recently noticed that I do not see any way to add comments - on this site and also on wordpress.stackexchange.com. I can't tell if that's to do with my point status on these sites, or if my recent ...
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KVM tag, synonyms on the same area of expertise...
So, we kave KVM, the Kernel-based Virtual Machine and KVM, the Keyboard Video Mouse switch. Both are correct and both are heavily used on the sysadmin world. Luckily enough we have only a few ...
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Please burninate the [server] tag
On Server Fault, we have the server tag with 2283 questions as of this post. The general consensus is that it's a useless tag and it doesn't help to sort questions, but the sheer number of questions ...
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Defining the limits of self-promotion on Server Fault
Related to
Defining the limits of self-promotion
The top two answers to this question were deleted:
There is any monitoring hosted solution?
The accepted answer's account has 19 of 20 answers ...
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What are the sysadmin-related conferences and events worth attending? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Conferences to go to 2011 Edition
I would like to know your opinion on this subject and build a list of sysadmin-related conferences and events worth attending world wide.
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Why does the banner for Server Fault state "Got server questions?"
I've seen a lot of questions migrated to from Server Fault to Pro Webmasters, included one of mine.
Of course it was my fault I didn't look exactly where I was posting - I don't try to deny that. But ...
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Highlighting inside code blocks?
I often find myself wanting to draw attention to a particular part of the contents of a code block. The italic and bold formatting is interpreted literally, so those don't work:
_italic_ *bold*
I ...
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How do they differ? Tags webserver and web-server
I recently applied the webserver tag to my question and noticed that there are two tags: webserver and web-server. How do they differ?
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Are questions from high-rep users more valuable?
...and, if so, can we do anything to get more of them?
This question mutated a few times while I wrote it... Originally I was going to say that the lack of questions from high-rep users was a ...
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What kinds of Network questions belong to Serverfault and what belong to superuser? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Networking - always an SF topic?
I saw in serverfault's faq, one kind of question belonging to this site is network. So I was wondering what kinds of Network questions belong ...
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New users posting greetings and closings on their questions. [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Edit powers activate! Removing Hi/Thanks
It seems like lately there have been a lot more users posting their questions as such:
Hello!
I have a question. Blah blah ...
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Request to merge tags: datacenter and [data-center]
Please merge these tags:
datacenter
data-center
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How can low-rep user request migration?
I asked a question 6 weeks ago that has remained unanswered here on Server Fault. A commenter suggested that it would have been better asked on unix.stackexchange.com, but I cannot migrate the ...
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Raising the Tag Limit for Serverfault in Particular
I just ran into the 5 tags limit, asked a lot of questions and never thought to use that many tags before, but this time it would have been useful. So I would like a little higher tag limit myself.
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Why are the job ads on serverfault all for developers?
ServerFault is frequented by system administrators.
careers.serverfault.com exists, and has job adverts for system administrators and the like.
Yet, all the job ads on the right hand side of ...
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Migration statistics for February
Using mod tools make this kind of list easier to make. Anyway, for February, here is the break-down of where questions were migrated away from ServerFault. I didn't go into any additional stats (mod-...
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Need help removing [ie] tag from migrated questions
I have just gone through and removed the ie tag from a few posts replacing it with internet-explorer. Since there were only 11, I did them manually.
Now I'm stuck because the following 2 questions ...
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What is a system?
Given that we are System Administrators that manage ...systems, what is your definition of one? I am happy with the definitions provided in "What is a Systems Approach?" but I'm wondering what other ...
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How to get StackOverflow moderators to put hosting questions on Webmasters instead
StackOverflow moderators keep migrating "which hosting company should I use" type questions here, and they usually get voted down. Pro Webmasters seems like a more suitable place for them to get ...
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Unreadable tag "sqlservermanagementstudio"
I just noticed a question with what I first thought was a newly create tag and opened it up with the intention of fixing the tag. However, that tag has already been used 80 times.
The tag in question ...
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Scattered questions, moved questions
First: The question has been moved to superuser. In my opinion it should have been moved to serverfault. What can I do?
Second: I try to answer questions on iptables/netfilter. I end up answering ...
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