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Weird edit approvals?
https://serverfault.com/posts/362856/revisions
Maybe I'm just being picky here, but I don't think it was great this edit was approved.
NTP doesn't actually support changing the port number, so the ...
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Five year old question received several answers from new users
The question What is the best program to uncompress .tar.gz files on Windows Server 2008? has an accepted and multiple up-voted answers more than five years old.
Then suddenly it receives three new ...
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Handling very-low-quality answers
As a moderator I see a lot of flags for "very low quality". Sometimes they can be fixed. A lot of the time the flag is code for, "this is a crap answer," and nothing can be done but down-vote it, ...
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What kind of database/DBA questions does the SF community want to keep?
It is likely that dba.stackexchange.com will be leaving beta in the near future. While the site has been in beta, questions have been migrated "only for exceptional circumstances", but that will ...
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What is the scope of server-related software questions that are considered on-topic at ServerFault?
I am a mod on StackOverflow, and we get a lot of "Belongs on ServerFault" flags there. I would like some clarification on what kind of server software questions are considered on-topic here.
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Serverfault seriously needs more information in "How to Ask"
In "How to Ask", or preferrably, after you click "Ask Question" and before it allows you to type anything, there needs to be some kind of feature that warns against astonishingly vague questions like ...
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Can I unvote/remove a downvote or upvote I gave?
If somebody accidentally clicked on a upvote or downvote, how can they fix that, e.g. fully remove the vote?
It looks like there is no way to remove a vote after the buttons where pressed. Is that on ...
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How is this question historically significant?
https://serverfault.com/questions/649171/damage-control-stolen-laptop
This question was downvoted and closed, but I would like to know: How is it significant?
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Is there a way to 'close'/accept answered, abandoned questions?
Lots of questions that are put on the frontpage by 'Community' are old questions that have answeres but none are accepted. They've been abandoned by the original asker, and they're useless to build on,...
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How to deal with "marginal" answers on review?
I just got a failed review audit on https://serverfault.com/review/late-answers/215455 -- it states that the answer at issue was, in fact, very low quality, and I should have done something about it. ...
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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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2018 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
Server Fault is scheduled for an election starting next week, September 17th, for 2 slots. In connection with that election, we will be hosting a Q&A here for candidates. This will be an ...
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Code only answers
I recently had 2 answers downvoted by a person and he argued that they were "code only" and they require explanations. Here are my 2 cents on this:
There are questions where code-only answers should ...
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About Page example question is "How to prevent unicorns from eating daisies"
It's probably not good to encourage users to ask questions that are wildly off-topic for the site.
Not sure when this got changed/borked, but it was working correctly a week or so ago when I looked ...
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Talk about putting one off chat
It's no big secret that I'm not a fan of chat (anywhere, not just here). However, I find myself in the position of wanting to ask a question that is completely off topic for SF, so figured I'd try ...
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Is this question appropriate for Server Fault?
Does anyone know the underling network protocol that is used between host and client for the shipping of binary files from:
OneDrive
Google Drive
DropBox
iCloud
I suspect the answer is some variant ...
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What's the rationale for not letting me accept my own answer for 2 days?
About one hour after asking a question, I found the answer on my own. I therefore wrote an answer to my own question, documenting the process. However, when I wanted to accept my own answer, I was ...
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Is the [help] tag helpful?
The help tag seems a little pointless, but there are 23 questions tagged as help, don't you agree?
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Who would you like to hear at our Scalability Conference?
We are currently working on getting speakers for our Scalability Conference that will be in San Francisco on October 14th.
The theme for the conference is talks on scalable operations and system ...
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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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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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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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How to make "Everything you ever wanted to know about mod_rewrite" more visible
Ok, everyday we see a load of questions about mod_rewrite. Every once in a while, there is a good tricky scenario, but most are boiler plate "how do I redirect URL xyz to abc?".
I think the users ...
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Data-dump for ServerFault?
Is there any plans for a data-dump for ServerFault? (Or more importantly meta.stackoverflow?)
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How can we measure the health of ServerFault?
What tools or metrics do we have to measure the health of the ServerFault community? I mean that are available to non-moderators.
I've read lots of debates here over the years about how healthy the ...
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Improving Server Fault
Possible Duplicate:
How do we grow the Server Fault and Super User communities?
I have been fairly regular on Server Fault since it went public earlier this year. However, as the site gets older,...
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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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What AutoReviewComments have you come up with?
As many already know, there is a GreaseMonkey script call AutoReviewComments to automatically insert comment text for common situations.
The stock comments are less than stellar in my opinion. What ...
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What is the etiquette here regarding duplicate posts?
I am having a problem with Powershell, so I came here as a resource to find an answer.
I discovered an existing post that is very similar to my own problem here:
WinRM will NOT work, error code ...
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Deletion of question upon deleting accounts?
Does removing your account delete your questions?
What are the mechanisms for having a question deleted?
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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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Should the port-80 tag be burninated?
So I just came across port-80, and... I'm perplexed. I don't see any purpose it serves. However, before I launch it into the sun, does anyone want to speak up in its defence?
(I'm assuming that the ...
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Accidentally shared personal information via screenshot. How to delete from stack.imgur.com?
I uploaded a screenshot to ServerFault, or more precisely, to stack.imgur.com. The screenshot contained personal information, which I only discovered afterwards.
I replaced the screenshot in the ...
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Processing the Review / Late Answers queue
I've been working through some of the review queues when I get a few spare minutes, but have a bit of an issue with the Late answers from new users queue.
It's consistently one of the largest queues, ...
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Spam users to dispose of
"http://www.top-password.com/reset-windows-password.html" site:serverfault.com
That search gave me a nice list of posts that got missed when we started spam-flagging. There are three users used for ...
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What to do with the gameserver tag?
Recent activity brought to my attention that there is a gameserver tag, and a significant fraction of the questions under that tag looks like they are off-topic due to being hobbyist questions rather ...
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Can I ask for advice on a problem with a server if the OS I'm trying to install is not on the support matrix?
I'm failing to successfully install Arch Linux on a HP ProLiant Gen8 server.
The support matrix for that server doesn't list Arch Linux as a supported OS.
Does that mean that if I ask a question on ...
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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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Can we get Migrate to Ask Ubuntu?
I'm seeing more than the occasional Ubuntu question float through here that relates to the Ubuntu Desktop OS (I'm going to try and find a list now)
Any chance we can get a "Migrate to Ask Ubuntu" ...
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Fix discrepancy between Server Fault reasons for migration and FAQ
Server Fault is getting questions migrated to it that are not appropriate to it, because the close reason associated with migration to SF is overly general.
From the migrate to SF close reason:
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vsan tag on Server Fault
There's a tag vsan on Server Fault without any usage guidance. 7 out of 11 are about a specific product: VMware VSAN.
Since tags for other VMware products include the company (vmware-esxi, vmware-...
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Badge Request - Philanthropist Badge
Discussing this in chat...
Per this question: How to stop Host (A) records from being auto-created
I posted an answer...no upvotes.
Dan comes along and instead of creating his own answer with a ...
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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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Is there a sudden large influx of spam suggested edits?
This morning there were six suggested edits waiting in the queue. Three of them were spam:
https://serverfault.com/review/suggested-edits/103613
https://serverfault.com/review/suggested-edits/103614
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Not meeting quality standards with no explanation
I am trying to post the following question and getting this post does not meet our quality standards. Can someone please tell me why? Can I suggest more constructive denials?
I have a machine with 32 ...
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Let's love some older questions, ok?
I've been killing bad closed questions like a good boy and decided to slightly modify the search terms from there to find unloved questions that aren't closed in my favorite tags. The following query ...
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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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The sinister Clippycorn
Today, while digging through a bunch of questions, I've had a strange encounter with "Clippycorn" here:
Does anybody have any idea what it is supposed to do?
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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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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?