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Is it possible to delete all Stack Exchage accounts?
I have asked several question on ServerFault. By mistake I used my personal details including email and company name. I changed the details after only one day. Content-copy sites like answerleaks ...
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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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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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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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Merge postgres, postgres-8.4, postgres-8.3 into postgresql
Just noticed that there's a bunch of questions that are tagged postgres, or postgres-8.4, postgres-8.3; all need to by synonyms of postgresql
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Why was my question regarding PoE monitor closed?
I had a question regarding the availability of monitors that can be powered via 802.3at that was closed as off topic recently: https://serverfault.com/questions/256868/does-anyone-know-of-a-19-or-...
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Delete tag and blackhole - slowness
https://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/slowness
Please kill it with fire. Thank you!
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Where do suggested edits go?
What kind of queue do suggested edits go into? Is this part of the moderator tools or is there some other way view these?
Having recently earned the ability to edit rather than just suggest, I was ...
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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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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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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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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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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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nameserver and nameservers tags
Can nameserver and nameservers tags be merged?
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bind and bind9 tags
Can bind and bind9 tags be merged?
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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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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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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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Tag merge and synonym or blackhole - Cisco-asa & ASA
The ASA tag has 109 Qs, the Cisco-ASA tag only has 79.
Please merge ASA into the more formal Cisco-ASA.
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Merge tags: lamp and lamp-server
LAMP is a server stack, so "lamp-server" seems redundant. (Except in a coal mine, where one might be quite useful.)
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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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Windows 7 Tagging
Right now there are 3 Windows 7 tags, plus a synonym:
Windows7 (synonym for Windows-7)
Windows-7 (1265 tags)
Windows-7-64 (43 tags)
Windows7-32 (6 tags)
Should we merge the 32bit and 64bit tags into ...
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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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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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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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Option to flag a user, not just their posts
When I see what looks like spam by a new user I go check out their other answers. Very often they all promote the same product or service. In the early days I would only flag one such answer but ...
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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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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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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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Request to merge tags: antivirus and anti-virus
Subject says it all. Can they be merged to, for example, anti-virus ?
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Can the Vmware tag be deleted ?
The plain vmware tag adds no value as we never get any questions about the company. When it is used it is usually used in error and in place of a product specific tag which would be more useful. This ...
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Why can't you "follow" or at least "favorite" other ServerFault / StackExchange users?
I may get flamed for asking, but I've always wondered..
Why don't the StackExchnge sites have
any mechanism for “making friends", or
at least keeping track of people you
like, find ...
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Why doesn't ServerFault do a better job of finding interesting questions?
I've always wondered why Server Fault (and I guess all SE sites) don't do a better job of showing questions that are interesting to me.
The site already knows a lot about me like:
Tags I find ...
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Is it possible to merge the emailserver and email-server tags?
Subject says it all. Can we merge them to "emailserver" ?
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how to subscribe to questions on server fault which I did not asked [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Follow thread of conversation in which you are not participating
There are some good discussions many a times I come across on serverfault and like on other forums I can ...
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Follow thread of conversation in which you are not participating
I receive emails from serverfault with the open questions which I occasionally open and try to answer.
Sometimes there is a question to which I don't have an answer, but I'd like to follow the ...
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Could a mod please undelete the question about stalking?
As meta.SF regulars will recall a user recently posted a question here accusing another user of stalking him and maliciously downvoting. It appears that as the discussion of the original question ...
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These tags should probably be blacklisted.
I just removed all the few questions tagged it, and I was thinking about removing system-administration for the ~27 questions, but I didn't really want to bump all those questions. I think both of ...
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Where is an appropriate place to ask for server-oriented product recommendations?
I'd like to ask for specific product recommendations for server-related services (such as registrars, virtual root hosts, etc). It's a jungle out there for many of these things, and specific ...
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Can the links to useful chat rooms be made permanent?
As of now (11pm Pacific Time), a temporary/test/silly/whatever-it-is chat room called "Room for coredump and Jacob" has taken over from "Vote to Close" on the right sidebar.
Ok, since "useful" ...
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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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Request to add visual difference between blockquotes and code blocks
It has always irked my inner aesthetic nazi that code blocks are indistinguishable* from blockquotes at first glance. See my recent answer for an example. I'm picturing something like this:
*Yes, I ...
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Proxy server question, Is Serverfault the correct place to ask?
Would it be acceptable to ask about Squid Proxy configuration? specifically related to Delay buckets and bandwidth caps.
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Are troubleshooting questions a good thing?
Maybe "troubleshooting questions" isn't the right label for what I'm talking about, but I've seen a couple questions recently (in the last 12 hours) that seem a bit off to me. They're off-topic, but ...
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What is flag weight?
I have just noticed the property "flag weight" with a value next to it in my profile. What's it for/about?
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What is the etiquette on using comments to say "thank you"?
On the one hand, I'd like to thank people who provide useful answers, but on the other, I can see how those comments really just become clutter for everyone else.
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Privilege Description for Moderator Tools should be changed
Right now the description text for the "access to moderation tools" privilege says, in part:
You have earned the highest level of privilege in our community
With the addition of the "trusted user" ...