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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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Closing OT crappy questions
We are generally requested to not migrate crap.
Now that we're no longer meant to use the
Off Topic->Questions must be relevant to professional system administration ...
close reason as a method ...
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Is SF an appropriate place to ask any question about telco network?
As far as I know SE has no specific site to ask question about telco network like GSM/EDGE network. More of less SF deals with computer networking, system etc. Is SF an appropriate place to ask any ...
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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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Automatically ask for certain information on Apache vhost questions
Pretty much every time someone asks a question regarding Apache virtual hosts, the very first thing someone asks is "Can you post the output of apache2ctl -S/httpd -S?"
It would be awesome if SF ...
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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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Tag reverse is ambiguous
The reverse tag has been used with at least three different meanings. Reverse DNS, reverse proxy, reverse port-forwarding.
I think the tag needs to go. Should it just be removed, or should questions ...
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Improving questions vs. teaching new users how to use the site?
I recently flagged a question for being off-topic based on its original version. (Q: setting up virtual host on windows apache) There was a clear reference to Windows 7 as a desktop OS and as the ...
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home-server tag
Should the tag home-server be deleted as it's surely off topic here on server fault? It has 22 questions, many of which that are still open.
A few more candidates:
home-network home-networking ...
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Is it ok to post a question on both StackExchange and another software specific forum at the same time?
I have a question about my Server Fault post: How do you configure Confidant to use the Access Key Id/Secret Access Key for its IAM user?
I've seen a couple users post a question and leave a note, ...
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We want to celebrate the community's 10th anniversary together!
April 2019 marks the 10th anniversary of this great community and we want to celebrate together with you!
I am looking for suggestions from you as to how we can realistically enjoy this momentous ...
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Is this type of answer acceptable?
I have mixed feelings about this guy's answers.
Most of his answers that I've read seem to be good, informative, but the formatting always bugs me, and sometimes the list of references looks spammy. ...
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Where do I ask a question about backup of local mac and vmware fusion based prototyping environment
I am an IT pro and tend to need virtual environments for opsdev, infrastructure and development type activities that require non-functional facets like backup.
A lot of my work gets done on trains so ...
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Revision / Exam questions?
What's the position on helping someone with understanding technology, but in response to learning or education rather than a formal 'I have a specific issue ....'
I'm thinking of this question,
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2018 Moderator Election Notice - Timezones
Next week, on September 17th, Server Fault will be hosting an election. The election will be for 2 new moderators.
More importantly, though, when we had polled the mod team about whether a new ...
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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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"administration" tag should be blacklisted [duplicate]
I find the tag administration really useless.
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Should subjective questions be subjected to closure?
The recent discussion around the WebServer Benchmarks question has me thinking.
This question poses a generally useful query that doesn't have one true answer. Part of our mission is to understand ...
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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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An ethical obligation to not answer questions seeking to circumvent IT policies?
I've come across a few questions where the user asks something like, "How do I set up a server when the IT department won't let me?"
Usually the questions are asked by a relatively inexperienced ...
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Could Appropriate Tags Cross-Post to Relevant SE Communities?
Since the recent addition of new communities for Unix and Ubuntu within the StackExchange (particularly ServerFault), I propose that tags posted to SF with relevant tags ("Ubuntu", "Solaris", "Unix", ...
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Tag Burnination [tag:instance]
The instances tag was recently merged into instance and this comment was made
But really, neither tag is useful; it ought to just be burninated.
It is a pretty useless tag so shall we burninate ...
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Reduce bump activity of the Community Bot
Regularly half or more of the questions on the ServerFault front-page seem to be there only because they were bumped by the Community bot.
It's self claimed configuration is among others:
Randomly ...
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Retag request: APC (Alternate PHP Cache) and APC (American Power Conversion) the power supplies.
There are lots of questions about uninterruptible power supplies that are improperly tagged as apc
There also questions about web application performance and the Pecl PHP opcode caching package, APC, ...
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Why were my "not an answer" flags on these answers declined? What should I have done instead?
I came across these two answers to an old question, which to my mind are simply link-only answers. Hence, I flagged them as NAA to push them into the review queue for the more experienced members of ...
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How should we handle questions that don't have a satisfactory answer but can't be pursued any longer?
I asked a question that involved a system that has now been wiped, as troubleshooting was taking too long, so no further answers can contribute to the question, as it was specific to that system. That ...
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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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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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Duplicate tag windows-service and windows-services
The tag windows-service has 195 questions, windows-services got 25.
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Kill it with heavy crossbow: [humor]
Five questions, all closed. This tag is not now nor has it ever been on topic: humor
May we cast it into eternity never to be revived?
Possible duplicate: Fun and Humor Tag
And yet, apparently it ...
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Whats really being taken in consideration to close a question?
What’s really being taken in consideration to close a question? Is it based on how "ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form" or ...
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Kill it with light mace: [windows-home-server] - or not?
Before I blow through a day's worth of flags on this, perhaps there's a better way. I believe that virtually no question with the windows-home-server tag belongs here. Here's a discussion on the topic ...
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Will/Should Serverfault be dropping the "networking support" in the upcoming future?
There is a currently private beta site for Network Engineering here:
http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/52519/network-engineering
The beta is new, but seems to be garnering a decent following ...
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What is our "competition" for ServerFault?
I see a few references to "other" sites in some of the meta questions in term of improving Serverfault.....However, specifically which sites do you feel are the competition to that of ServerFault?
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Topicality: What should be done with "hobbyist" firmware questions?
What should we do with questions involving hobbyist 3rd party firmware such as dd-wrt, openwrt, and tomato?
I'll grudgingly admit there is a corner case for these in the small office professional ...
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Syntax highlighting based on tag
Right now the code blocks on SF don't support syntax highlighting. Instead we get boring, grey, hard to read code.
I spent some time today on the Unix & Linux SE, which does offer syntax ...
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How is Server Fault doing as of late 2011?
I'm not a heavy Server Fault user, but it seems to me that it's growing a lot slower than other sites. The front page is often full of questions with hardly any upvotes, and I often find old questions ...
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Homewreckers wanted! Please handle these home-use questions
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ServerFault has numerous home-use questions extending far back into its history. It would be great if we could handle them all and either explicitly close them as off-topic or edit out all ...
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2018 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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The state of the #4 migration target
Over the last several months I've seen a trend in flag-reasons. Several of you are of the opinion that our #4 migration target should not be Webmasters, but either Unix & Linux or DBA. This is ...
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Can we have a "Migrate to WordPress StackExchange" option?
This question got me to thinking about the need.
This search shows a non trivial amount of chatter about WordPress. A very rough estimate of questions that are specific to WordPress and not just ...
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Many old questions getting additional proftpd/vsftpd tags
There seems to be a rash of questions recently getting resurrected by the addition of either a vsftpd or a proftpd tag.
Let me be clear: I don't refer to previously-untagged questions; those are ...
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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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Would asterisk questions be welcome here?
Is it ok if I vote to migrate asterisk questions from Super User to here?
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Editing not-so-good Questions
I have an idea that part of the way we might improve Server Fault a little bit is to take questions that just are not that great but maybe have potential and edit them.
I think if when users with ...
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Upvoting without discretion
For the past 24 hours at least, someone has been upvoting questions without discretion on ServerFault. At first, I started to downvote the particularly heinous misappropriation. At this point, I'm ...
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Should comments inserted as inline edits be flagged, deleted, or left alone?
https://serverfault.com/posts/457235/revisions
This question included a comment as an inline edit: "Thanks for all your input and discussion on the subject..."
We as a community tend to frown upon ...
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Handle the question where OP decided to reinstall the system and begin from scratch
Recently I going through unanswered questions pool to find interesting unsolved questions. In one question
E-mails being relayed to other server
there are no answer provided. Why? Because OP has ...
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