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Handling illegal/immoral questions and answers
SF is for professionals and I think we'd all agree that part of being professional is to act within our various laws and also within a general moral code when doing our jobs.
Every now and then I see ...
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Did the free LOPSA memberships ever get sent out?
From my calculation I was one of the top 40 for the year that posted on the thread, but have heard nothing.
It's entirely possible that I calculated it wrong, but thought I'd check.
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Prevent editing a closed question from it being bumped to front page.
Visting ServerFault this morning there were a large number of old questions (posted 2009) that have been edited and therefore bumped to the front page. While I find this highly irritaing as it is, two ...
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How come my accepted percentage is so low?
I found out about the feature today and accepted about 10 answers giving to about 25 questions of mine. It seems however my accepted percentage is still only 8%?
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Server Fault Moderator Cards
We recently printed some business cards for our Stack Exchange employees and they turned out great.
It got us thinking: our sites' moderators have been working hard to keep our sites high quality for ...
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Server-2008 tag synonym
I hope I'm not bypassing the synonym process - IMO the tag server-2008 should be added as a synonym of windows-server-2008, and/or the existing 4 questions should be retagged.
Thoughts, or will ...
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Do we really need a backup-exec-2010 tag when there's a perfectly good backupexec tag?
Is the rather recent spate of retagging of questions around Backup Exec with backup-exec-2010 by user KCotreau strictly necessary?
We've already got a perfectly servicable backupexec tag, and my ...
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Ways to improve the quality of questions concerning some tags (tag-triggered suggestions?)
I'm quite new here, but I often find myself desiring there was a way to suggest people asking questions to include information probably relevant because of the tags they've used - something like "...
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Inappropriate advertisement
I don't normally even look at the right hand column on SF so never really notice the ads but due to its garish colours (relative to the rest of the page) this one was really hard not to notice.
I ...
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Share favorites between sites
Would it be possible to import favorites tags over between sites? For example, I have sql-server favorited on SO, Server Fault, and Code Review, and I had to add it seperately at each site.
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Retag or Synonym pxe & pxeboot
The tags pxe (89) and pxeboot (15) are the same thing. Could we create a synonym for these?
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What should be done with questions that are duplicates if they get migrated?
I'm thinking of this question:
https://serverfault.com/questions/275767/how-can-i-download-the-correct-sound-driver-for-my-window-xp
It's a textbook "Belongs on Superuser" question, but if it were ...
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Does Server Fault plan to support IPv6?
IPv6 is an up-and-coming topic on Server Fault, especially since IPv4 address space exhaustion finally occurred for some parts of the world.
Yet I can't help noticing that serverfault.com has no AAAA ...
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How to offer a bounty
I am not necessarily looking to do this right now, but I don't see how to offer a bounty on my question or another person's question. For future readers, I am currently at 636, so I should be fine as ...
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What does "First rollback" mean for the cleanup badge?
I could not find a help file on this: What does "First rollback" mean for the cleanup badge?
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Free LOPSA Memberships
Opt-In is now closed. Thanks everyone, We will let the lucky 40 sysadmins know shortly
I'm very happy this has gone over so well, with 50 people opting in. If you didn't get a membership this time ...
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Inappropriate font sizes
From time to time I see questions or answers in which the poster has used something other than regular font size. This can look absolutely appalling. e.g. Stop an already running cron job
Can the CSS ...
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What should be done with "Help me do (whatever), I'm a beginner with no idea what to do" questions?
This is an exact dup of a question I asked on meta.SO a year and a half ago, but it didn't get any useful answers back then, and I've noticed a lot of this sort of question lately, so I think it's ...
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Wrong link pulled into report when recording an exact duplicate on another SE site
When reporting this question on SF as an exact duplicate of this one over on DBA, the description of question 2868 on SF is pulled through, not the description of question 2868 on dba.se.
The comment ...
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Show questions (with answers) that a user has answered
Is there any way to display questions (and all the answers) that a particular user has answered. That is, select all the questions that a particular person has answered and display 10 (or whatever ...
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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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Retag or synonym Corruption tag
Right now, there are a lot of unnecessary corruption tags. We have corruption, corrupt, file-corruption and data-corruption. Frankly way too many.
Corruption is the most commonly used one, and ...
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Retag or Synonym SCVMMR2 -> SCVMM
The R2 release of SCVMM isn't different enough to warrant it's own tag.
Also, it's the 2008 R2 version, so the tag name isn't even accurate to start.
The scvmmr2 tag has more questions than scvmm, so ...
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Removing popular answer if potentially a duplicate
Hi,
I'm fairly new to SF and have used the site mostly to get answers for my questions and provide answers to questions I know (read: the basic point of the site).
I recently posted an answer on ...
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Server Fault Conference
I’m excited to announce that Server Fault will be hosting a one day educational conference for system administrators and other network operations professionals. This conference will be supported by ...
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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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Daily Vote Limit Reached at 38 Votes
I've voted 38 times today and can't up/down-vote any questions or answers, getting the Daily Vote Limit Reached message.
Does flagging a comment as Spam count against these? Or any other actions?
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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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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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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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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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Please delete [tag:tweaking]
tweaking has been recently created - please burninate it before it picks up too many uses.
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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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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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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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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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Abnormal flag weight
Today, when I looked at my profile, I noticed my Flag weight is a decimal. How is this possible?
Are you using some vintage Pentiums maybe? (Context) :-)
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Since when are question votes different from answer votes?
Just got this message: Have question votes always been treated differently than votes on answers?
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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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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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What's with the new location in my profile?
I had put N VA, DC, Baltimore area for my profile location. I just noticed that it had changed to Farmville, VA. Which is like half a state away. In talking with other users, they have noticed ...
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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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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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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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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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Negative reputation
Is this normal!?
Upon visiting the negative reputation profiles a positive reputation has been displayed.
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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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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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