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Community Moderator vs 10k User
Is there any difference between a 10K user with access to the mod tools and a Community Moderator besides the title and that diamond next to the username?
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User seems to ask only homework questions. Is this a problem, or should I just ignore him?
User donok has been a member for two days and has asked three questions, each of which involves a chain of routers (which by his own admission is entirely virtualised), one of which has a simple error ...
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Why can't people upvote their own questions?
I'll let it be known that I spend a lot of time on Reddit so I find it odd that people can't upvote their own questions. On Reddit, each link or discussion starts out with 1 point (that given to it ...
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"Closed as off topic" Question Criteria
Occasionally I'm confused why a question gets closed. I was just browsing around and came across this one.
Xenserver Setup & Purchase
I'm just curios what qualified this one as "Off Topic" ?
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Vote to choose accepted answer. [closed]
The community bot brings up a lot of questions that have been answered except the original asker never accepted. This causes a lot of old questions to be put into the unanswered pile and on the ...
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Obfuscating domain names
I have noticed several questions about DNS or hosting that would benefit from the asker including the affected domain name. At the same time, I saw one comment that people might not want an SF ...
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Adding a User Rep/Question Threshold ala Slashdot?
Would like to see the ability to hide the questions that are visible to me if a question is asked by a user with a reputation lower than a threshold set in personal preferences.
EDIT
I meant as a ...
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What did I get Citizen Patrol for?
https://serverfault.com/users/58001/george-bailey
I don't remember flagging any post on Server Fault. Maybe some other website. This might be an accident. Maybe I did and just don't remember.
It ...
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Mark own question as duplicate?
I had asked a question few months back & forgotten about it. Before asking the same question again I checked on my account for stackoverflow.com but could not find it, so I asked the same question ...
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Problem with high reputation requirements for tag wiki edits?
Has something odd happened to the "tag wiki" reputation limit? Having just ticked over 5000, I looked at my reputation page and saw that I had 50% of the rep to get moderator tools, and 25% of the ...
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Is there an age cut off on the questions you want migrated from SO?
I'm a moderator on SO and have been coming across a fair amount of questions that really belong on Server Fault. Some of them are circa 2008. A lot of these are surfacing after being identified ...
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Users trading accepts for up votes?
What's the rule on this? A user asked an ambiguous question, a different user posted an ambiguous answer but one that was as complete as possible given the scant amount of detail in the question. The ...
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Old questions rising from the dead?
It seems that recently I am seeing a lot of questions "rise" up from seemingly out of nowhere? I have gone in on several occasions and have found myself commenting on questions that were asked in 2009....
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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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Reviewing deleted posts (10K users) [closed]
I've been hitting Data Explorer pretty hard lately attempting to purge not-an-answer answers from questions. You all have seen the type.
I'm having the exact same problem. Has anyone fixed this?
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Cleaning house, really old, unloved questions
Inspired by a post on M.SU by studiohack, I'd like your thoughts on going through and cleaning up some of our old, unloved questions. I've taken a first pass at coming up with an SQL query (...
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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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No editing toolbar
It appears something has broken, for me at least. The editing toolbar is currently not visible when posting a question or answer, yet if I edit an existing one it's fine. I tried FF, IE and Camino on ...
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Password questions
Noticing yet another password question this morning, albeit an old one, made me think that perhaps it would be worthwhile having the system place an automatic protection lock on all questions that ...
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Strange Entries in Tag RSS Feeds
I'm using the RSS feeds for several tags so I can keep up to date on them. Occasionally, I get an entry that shows up and the question was asked several months ago. If I look at the RSS feed the ...
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Updated: Does the new-user URL filtering need a better error message on server fault?
There is a filter in place to prevent new users from posting more then one link on the body of a question. I believe the intent of this is to prevent spammers from using the system, but does it ...
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Hiding closed questions?
If you, my peers, have decided that a question should be closed, why oh why does it still show up in the list of questions on the main Serverfault page? Even if this continues to be the default ...
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a moderator closed my question is any one watching.
I do not have requisite previlieges to post many links to my questions my genuine question was blocked be this sites moderator is any one watching.
The internal IPs of apache vhost configuration file ...
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How does StackOverflow achieve fault tolerance for it's HAProxy instances?
I read http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/01/stack-overflow-network-configuration. The post says that fault tolerance was achieved for the two HAProxy instances by using Heartbeat/Linux-HA which ...
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Can we come up with a consensus opinion on Purchasing Suggestions?
In reference to 2U rack hardware, budget but stable, what to buy?
Plus many other similar questions, it has been noted that there's actually nothing in the SF FAQ about asking really localized ...
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Moving questions
Is there a set of guidelines about where questions get migrated to and when and why? I recently noticed a question that got moved (228792) to a stackexchange site. My thoughts were:
Seriously? - we ...
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How to find out the number of edited posts?
Is there any way I can find out the number of posts I have edited? I can not find it in my profile page. I think it is good to have a counter similar to votes/badges counters.
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How to convert an answer into a comment
Sometimes folks (myself included) answer a question with what should have been a comment. Is there a way to move the inappropriate answer to a comment rather than delete/add it?
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Moderator elections bug
I'm getting a banner telling me to cast my last vote on the moderator elections but I've already cast three votes. I've refreshed the page but still get the message. I've also verified that my 1st, ...
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Should my question or the proposal be reopened?
This question was closed as off topic.
Also, this proposal was closed as duplicated of ServerFault.
Shouldn't one of them be reopened?
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Random sort for Unanswered questions
Serverfault currently has one of the worst Question to Accepted Answer ratio. I frequently want to go try spend some time answering old questions. I am making this feature request here, specifically ...
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Change or retract a vote to close
This may have been discussed on MSO but I don't go there any more, so I wouldn't see it and don't believe we should have to search elsewhere for answers relevant to this SF.
It happened again today ...
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Chat activity for election nominees
Zoredache mentioned in their answer here (emphasis mine):
If anyone happens to be reading this,
and doesn't regularly go into the chat
please understand that most of the
current candidates ...
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Information on the moderator candidates
Where can I find information on the candidates for the ServerFault and other elections?
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2011 Moderator Elections - Town Hall Chat
In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Town Hall Chat session with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the ...
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I have questions which no one could solve at the time but I later solved, what should I do with the questions?
I have questions on SF which I asked some time ago and never chose an answer for. This happened because eventually someone else outside of SF worked it out or I worked it out at a later date / ...
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Question migration statistics and a plea
Through the power of 10K tools, I bring you statistics:
Outbound Migrations last 7 days
Total Closed Ignored
SU 19 1 9
SO 2 0 1
Web 1 0 0
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Unqualified "professionals"
We see a fairly steady stream of questions by people who for one reason or another find themselves having to do a sysadmin's work but have no experience or qualifications whatsoever. Very often they ...
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rss feed for serverfault blog full post like SO
Using the same image from my other question about the serverfault blog
Can the rss feed have the full post, the same as the stackoverflow blog rss?
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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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How do I find out if my Questions\Answers have been edited
This has been bugging me for a while, I can't see anyway find out which of my contributions have been edited by someone else. I'd like to be able to check any edits to see if they have made material ...
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Is it enough to just vote an answer up?
I just found a really useful answer to a question (that wasn't mine), and have voted it up. Is it ok to add a comment thanking the person that wrote the answer? Or is the fact I voted it up enough?
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user not recognized
hi
sorry for stupid question
i have server account in stackexchange.com platform (stackoverflow, math, stats, gamedev) with nkint:
https://stackoverflow.com/users/433685/nkint
usually my account was ...
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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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2011 Community Moderator Election
The 2011 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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How do I get my bounty points?
My answer to a +50 bounty question has been accepted. How do I get the bounty? My understanding is that the OP has to specifically allocate the bounty. What if he decided not to or forgets to?
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Can you submit the blog post here first before posting?
I say this only because the otherwise excellent Know Your RAM post has a few grammar errors. By posting here first, you can get these corrected first, via comments, (or by making the post CW).
[note] ...
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What's the difference between 'vm' and 'virtual-machine' tags?
I see there's separate vm and virtual-machines tags. What's the difference? Should they be made synonyms?
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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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On migrating to unix-SE
Unix & Linux has recently been launched, so I'm wondering if there are questions in here that need migrating.
The FAQ states that this site is not for General personal computer troubleshooting. ...