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System Administrator Appreciation Day

great idea! doing it now!
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Too much focus on Stack Overflow?

As documented in http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/05/one-year-of-server-fault/ We now have http://blog.serverfault.com And participation on both sites is not optional for our (soon to be) two fu …
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Can we have our own FAQ?

You already do! What would you like to see added to https://serverfault.com/faq specifically? edit: based on your response, none of that is SF specific -- you should open this on meta.so if you want …
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Can the Vmware tag be deleted ?

If you need tags to be destroyed / removed, PLEASE have a developer do it -- otherwise you will edit-push hundreds of questions to the front page for no good reason, and add revision history that is m …
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Can the Vmware tag be deleted ?

This is tricky, because there are a ton of questions with only the vmware tag -- 1,090 as of the time I originally wrote this. Note the sidebar where it says "related tags", pay close attention to th …
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Serverfault cut off/truncated on long post?

I think I know what that is. I used a SQL server .NET CLR regex to un-nofollow internal links in posts, and I suspect it has a maximum length based on the SQL data type it is cast to. Hopefully that …
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Bold + italic Markdown formatting breaks when used on underscored text

We disable intra-word markdown emphasis on the server, but it still shows in the preview. This is by design at the moment. If you need finer control use <b> and <i> as appropriate
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Retag request: serverfault hard-disk -> hard-drive

ok, I merged them up.
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Colasoft "Spammers"

Blatant spamming will not be tolerated. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
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Fix discrepancy between Server Fault reasons for migration and FAQ

Ok so you want This question is about servers, networks or the administration of many machines, and is a better fit for Server Fault versus This question is about servers or system administr …
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Changing the FAQ: Home networks

OK, I changed the /faq to: Server Fault is for system administrators and desktop support professionals, people who manage or maintain computers in a professional capacity. If your question is about … …
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Change or retract a vote to close

Close votes age away harmlessly after 4 days if they do not reach the threshold.
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Updated: Does the new-user URL filtering need a better error message on server fault?

Can you cite examples? Where I see this, it is usually because the user did not post a log as a code block, e.g. they did something like: log line 1 blah blah http://example.com/foo/bar log line 2 bl …
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Merge tags on serverfault [nameserver] and [nameservers]

This is complete, and a synonym is in place.
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Server Fault retag: gpo to group-policy

This is complete, and a synonym is in place.
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