Some time ago we requested Clippy Pop out to help people ask a better question.

(time passed)

Someone else asked for a similar feature on mSE.

(more time passed)

This feature has been added to Stack Overflow.

I think that Server Fault could benefit from a feature like this.

For example, we have a Canonical Q&A for cron which pretty much every cron related question can be closed as a dupe of. Having this pop out and point people at this Q&A may help them get to an answer quicker.

Similarly we could use it for

• licensing and mod-rewrite to point at canonical Q&A.
• vhost could ask for apachectl -S/httpd -S.
• httpd-error* could ask for log entries.
• ssh ask for ssh -v output and server log entries.

I'm sure we could come up with lots more but should we ?