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156
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What are the canonical answers we've discovered over the years?
What to look for in a datacentre ethernet switch
Documentation
Getting started with documentation
EMail & Spam
How to stop people from using my domain to send spam? … Fighting Spam - What can I do as an: Email Administrator, Domain Owner, or User?
Prevent mail being marked as spam
How to send emails and avoid them being classified as spam? …
49
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4
answers
2k
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Labor action notice
We've already seen spammers use these tools to provide an actual-answer seeming post with a spam link in it. … Also of note, this includes halting the SmokeDetector anti-spam bot. Since late February, ServerFault has been under heavy attack by a group of pirate stream spammers. …
49
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5
answers
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ServerFault Fundamentalism
There is still a need for moderators to deal with spam, egregiously bad questions, and other administrative minutiae. …
40
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Abrupt change in moderation staff?
Our ability to unilaterally close or delete questions is meant to be used to handle exceptional cases: Grossly off-topic questions ("plx fix"), spam, abusive language, and the like. …
38
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Are answers from a vendor allowed?
In this case:
the answers are helpful
the user is not trying to promote the company
the user isn't trying to hide that they're connected to the company
To me this adds up to a benefit to the sit …
36
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Accepted
Is useful 'spam', really spam?
Two-ish years ago there was a community change as a whole to start spam-flagging them. … since spam-bait is just as bad as the spam itself. …
36
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6
answers
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Why SF is failing - the dismal future of ServerFault
I'd tell you where they're going, but then this post would get flagged as spam :) The reason why users are not joining or are leaving is because it's quite clear that they are not wanted. …
33
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7
answers
1k
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Questions to ask the SE staff regarding the future of ServerFault
Question #10 - Could there be a "Help me buy IT stuff" SE site, one place where we DO allow product recommendation questions - maybe even a degree of spam - so we can send that kind of question there without …
32
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Are answers from a vendor allowed?
I think we should be encouraging vendors to participate on the site as much as possible. The major caveat is that it has to be an actual answer like you would expect from anyone else. For example it s …
28
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What to do with the "rm -rf" hoax question
This is a very similar story as the first spam message ever, which went to usenet and didn't get policed hard enough. … That is why we have spam now. it goes back over 20 years because some company got away with it. …
27
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Accepted
How to handle situations where a user needs professional support and you are willing to prov...
Technical, in that we don't have a PM feature, and ethical, in not wanting to spam SF QAs with consulting solicitations. …
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2
answers
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Kill [sysadmin] tag on SF with fire
I've retagged anything with just the single sysadmin tag so killing this tag shouldn't leave anything orphaned (sorry for the homepage spam...) …
22
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Accepted
Dealing with blatant spam posts
Flags don't generally get left hanging around for long and enough of either will cause the post to be hidden/deleted automagically.
6 Spam flags will cause automagic deletion. …
21
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2
answers
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Massive Spam Attacks since couple of days
q=loan+number
My first page on ServerFault looks like
gets a lot of hits for the same spam type, and I'm already hitting the flag limits what could be done other than that
I also researched some similar … q=spam, but my question regards is the spam protection that was suggested in 2010 is still alive. Because it feels not like it?
Is there maybe a better way to forward such information? …
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How to get StackOverflow moderators to put hosting questions on Webmasters instead
They come under the bracket of "Subjective and Argumentative", as you are always going to elicit different responses from different people, and often just attract spam as chopper said. …