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Why SF is failing - the dismal future of ServerFault
This is a Canonical Question about the scope of Server Fault and the attitude of the community.
This is in response to Questions to ask the SE staff regarding the future of ServerFault
Why am I ...
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When to post on Serverfault vs Stackoverflow?
I've just started using Stackoverflow, and it's been very useful. I asked a question once on here that was much more technical (decoding a wordpress hack), but I'm confused in general about why to use ...
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Do you have a checklist that can help me ask a better question?
This is a Canonical Question / FAQ Candidate to help our new users ask better questions,
and hopefully get better answers. Similar questions:
How can I ask better questions on Server Fault?
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Edit powers activate! Removing Hi/Thanks
The format of StackExchange sites in general discourages the sort of letter-format questions common elsewhere. You know what I'm talking about:
Hi,
I have ${problem}. It has ${details}. Any ...
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Where do SQL questions belong?
Should questions about SQL (the language, not the server) be asked on SF or SO?
There are a reasonable number of questions about SQL already on SF but before posing any myself (quite possible due to ...
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How to attract more professionals?
This topic has been discussed before but I do not believe it to be exhaustive. During the first chat beta, Jeff Atwood and I were discussing potential areas where SF could be marketed to ...
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Deleting closed questions with no answers
I don't think there any reason why we shouldn't delete questions like these. They are closed, have no answers and are very unlikely to get reopened - they (largely*) have no value. The
It takes 3 ...
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Remove "Professional" close-reason
The third close-reason is currently:
Questions must be relevant to professional system administration. Server Fault is dedicated to professional system and network administrators. End user and ...
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List of questions for candidates in 2011 moderator election [closed]
Blatantly stolen from the meta.maths elections
This thread is opened for questions addressed to (all) the candidates in the January 2011 moderator election.
If questions are kept simple enough they ...
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Why was this XAMPP question closed and why are so many XAMPP questions being closed?
https://serverfault.com/questions/456881/how-to-make-xampp-virtual-hosts-accessible-to-vms-and-other-computers-on-lan
So, I went over the FAQ BEFORE posting the question. Now, I happen to think I am ...
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Why the major FAQ/help change?
We get a LOT of seriously off-topic questions on ServerFault.
This is because new users either can't comprehend the word 'server' in the site name or because they skipped the old, and very clear, FAQ....
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2014 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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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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Clarifying "Novice questions are off-topic"
One of our close reasons reads as follows:
Questions must be relevant to professional system administration. Server Fault is a site dedicated to professionals; novice questions are off-topic. ...
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Question about Migrated post that was closed
I am a moderator at Drupal answers, and migrated this question to SF a few days ago. I migrated it because it didn't really have anything to do with Drupal or Drupal configuration. It is essentially ...
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What is (or what should be) the etiquette for editing old questions or posts?
I ask primarily because it's come up, and I've gotten conflicting advice and requests.
Seeing the bad tag thread (and a lot of the other hideousness from "back when"), plus having a lot of time on my ...
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Should we enable Tag Specific Popups
Some time ago we requested Clippy Pop out to help people ask a better question.
(time passed)
Someone else asked for a similar feature on mSE.
(more time passed)
This feature has been added to ...
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Color scheme in questions lists needs some help
The color contrast here (MetaSF /questions) is a bit difficult. Fine on the home page, but white and yellow against light gray isn't enough of a contrast. Talking about the vote / answer boxes.
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How do I get better answers?
How do I get better answers? Or perhaps more accurately, How can I ask better questions?
Specifically what kind of information are other system administrators looking for posters to provide in order ...
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Proposed change to Server Fault guidelines, round 2
I'd like to propose some changes to the guidelines in our help center on what questions are on topic.
The goals of this change are:
Alter the language to focus on the question being asked as opposed ...
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What's the correct policy when encountering a question that has no possible answer
I know I'm new to this site, but I frequently find myself looking at questions such as this one:
https://serverfault.com/questions/354940/sudo-selectively-using-nopasswd
It has no possible answer, ...
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Please don’t make Careers programmers only in practice! [duplicate]
Careers will soon be merged into Stack Overflow.
Only two sites are concerned by this change, because there’s currently only two kind of jobs on Careers, developers and system administrators.
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why was the question on dev server setup moved to SU?
Coming from question:
How do I get Windows XP Professional upgrade to boot directly without having to choose it at startup?
Why doesn't this question belong to SF?
It seems to fall into 2 ...
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How to handle unanswered questions that have the answer in a comment or edited into the question?
This is about those two questions:
httpd.conf match absolute file
PHP 5.3 Not Logging
Both had no answer (neither accepted nor unaccepted).
Both askers answered it without actually writing an answer,...
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Community Promotion Ads - 2013 [duplicate]
As it is December 2012, we are now going to reset our Community Promotion Ads for the new year.
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that ...
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Should Server Fault be removed from Stack Overflow's migration list?
At the end of October, Shog9 said:
If SO migrations are truly a problem, then you get removed as a migration target completely. No user migrations, period.
as a response to this m.SO question ...
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Let us (continue to) close old, off-topic questions about web hosting control panels
I'm not going to rehash all the drama of the last few days surrounding our former moderator HopelessN00b's mass closing of old, off-topic questions about web hosting control panels, but something ...
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On the paucity of voting
paucity
ˈpɔːsɪti
noun
the presence of something in only small or insufficient quantities or amounts.
"a paucity of information"
The active community on Server Fault is tiny, most people ...
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Worse than usenet? Our image to prospective new users.
Last week, I spoke to a colleague who had some problems where he asked me for help but I didn't knew an immediate answer. I suggested to ask a question on ServerFault, but he denied, claiming this ...
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It's Santa Time!
Let's do this. What with the DramaLlama being out in full force, I think it's time to take a breather and bring the funny back. To wit: I propose the Santification of your gravatars till after the new ...
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Should the rep requirement for creating tags on Server Fault be raised?
I have a simple question, per the title, that I'd like community feedback on before venturing over to Stack Exchange meta and/or bugging one of the Stack Exchange Community Managers.
Should the rep ...
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Community Promotion Ads - 2012 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Community Promotion Ads - 2013
Apparently there's never been one of these on Server Fault. Let's amend that, shall we? ♪
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community ...
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Conferences to go to 2011 Edition
It's that time of year to start thinking about what conferences we want to beg,plead,borrow and steal to get to go to this year. We all like a good conference, but are generally limited in the funds ...
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I'm challenging us to make the Christmas 2014 season be known as "killing them with kindness"
EDIT: IT'S OVER...hopefully it helped some...now to continue on down the road...
tl;dr? Just see the bold...
After reading both of these meta questions:
Why is the Server Fault community so ...
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Should someone post an answer when all they did was Google Fu?
I answered a question today while knowing little about the subject, and all I did was Google. True, some googlers are better than others, and perhaps I deserved the 1 upvote I got for such. However, ...
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Why are learning materials questions off-topic?
I asked a question looking for pointers to overview materials about VPNs, as opposed to product-specific documentation. It was very promptly closed as 'off-topic' on the grounds that "Questions ...
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Should licensing questions be closed?
After seeing yet another licensing question I'm wondering whether I'm right in thinking they should be closed. While it can be difficult or slow getting answers for technical questions from the ...
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Interpretation of Off Topic
I'm seeing a fair number of questions that are getting closed as off topic on a regular basis, I'm trying to understand why this is the case. The type of questions are those that involve desktops or ...
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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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Have we given up on the review queue?
I'm guilty...I've given up. I simply don't frequent SF enough anymore due to the job requirements to be a daily contributor.
But I was actually pretty shocked to see the shape the review queue is in....
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Community Promotion Ads - 2017
It is a bit late into this new year, being that we're already in the second month, but we are now cycling the Community Promotion Ads for 2017!
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion ...
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why was my question about mac mini servers closed?
I asked a question about using Mac Minis as servers. It was upvoted and then closed without comment and moved to SuperUser. Why?
I am using these Mac Minis as servers and in a professional capacity....
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I think we're overdoing "get a new job" recommendations in comments
Is that OK to leave a small endless loop script running on server?
Powershell assistance for Active Directory Cleanup
Those are two examples that I've seen in the last day. Neither of which deal ...
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We should bring back the "question must show a minimal understanding" close reason
As per this discussion, the old "questions must demonstrate a minimal understanding of the problem being solved" close reason has been replaced.
However, questions such as this one (*) (and ...
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BOFH Gravatar Week - Let's keep going!
This is your chance to show your true colours...
Use the (semi-) official Bastard Operator From Hell Gravatar for a week or a while. I don't think there's any particular reason, it just seemed like ...
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Can we turn down the campaign heat, please?
Watching some of the moderator nomination comment threads, I get the mental image of a bucket brigade. And all the buckets contain gasoline.
I'm not terribly surprised or offended by those who are ...
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2013 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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Serverfault, superuser, or nowhere?
I have a question that I'd like to post, which is entirely business related, which concerns connecting a home worker to a corporate network using an ADSL router with a VPN client built in to it. The ...
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Are we upvoting/downvoting questions for the right reasons?
tl;dr: in the tooltip for upvoting/downvoting of questions is the semicolon(;) considered an and/or (meaning do we upvote if it is clear and useful but no research, or upvote for research but not ...
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Why can't I use https to access the stackexchange sites?
In order to be more secure in my external transmissions, I tried to use https://serverfault.com and found that I could not login.
Actually I get a 403/HTTP Authentication request, but its not like ...
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