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There's snark, and then there's
I flagged for mod attention, but then I decided, given the recent "war on snark", that it was worth raising here for wider attention and discussion. …
wombleMod
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Is it reasonable/possible to further discourage down voting?
Some people would rather deal with mocking snark in comments than see that big gray -1 next to their question. … We try to keep the snark down, but in the face of questions our active users consider to be ill-fitting or actively ignorant the snark-wagon comes a rolling along more often than I personally would like …
sysadmin1138Mod
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Getting a bit too snarky
One person's / culture's snark is another person's / culture's legitimate teaching tool. … Snark may not be snark. We must define terms as concretely as possible but leave wiggle room for a variety of communication styles. …
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Getting a bit too snarky
That said, sometimes I feel a little snark is called for -- not to be mean, but to remind certain folks asking questions that system administration is a specialist profession that is perhaps not for everyone … - 99% pure snark and I'll admit it - This was "HALP! I R BEING DDoS'D!" question number 1472 for the week and this poor guy got hit with the deadly snark-ray. …
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Can we turn down the campaign heat, please?
Let's face it: as a community, your reputation for cruelty, snark, and general unhelpfulness is unmatched - even Programmers, which attracts far fewer questions per day and rejects nearly all of them, …
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How snarky is too snarky?
As a group, we don't like spoon-feeding answers ("give me a complete checklist to follow for upgrading SVN from 1.3 to 1.5, in small words"), so the urge to snark is strong when we come across it. …
sysadmin1138Mod
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Points for comments
And finally, by excluding comments from the rep system it means that ServerFault doesn't reward snark in any meaningful way. …
sysadmin1138Mod
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Chat - a plea for moderation
community standards" are (Chat regulars will note that the standards in SF chat are a little different than the rest of the SE network), and then enforce those standards on ourselves as we have with comment snark …
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2012 Moderator Election - Town Hall Chat Digest
Basically stuff said in good humor or the grand tradition of gentle snark and sarcasm. There is a line. …
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Why SF is failing - the dismal future of ServerFault
Even so, however, these middling questions (neither great nor unanswerable) will probably provoke a little snark, or at the very least get answers the asker didn't expect. …
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2015 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
I know it's really tempting to dole out some nuclear-grade snark to some n00b (and I've delivered some absolute scorchers over the years, of which I am now not particularly proud), but I really think we're …
wombleMod
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Moderators, please educate us
The only snark I do is in chat. I've extended this to my blog since I have a good number of readers from the SF community. …
sysadmin1138Mod
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