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Are "call support" or "contact the supplier" valid answers?

Tricky this one. Over on Super User I've seen questions that say "I can't do X on my company machine" or "X doesn't work on my company machine" and I've suggested that they should contact their IT de …
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I've had a fault on my broadband connection (now resolved) and my ISP has posted a diagnosti...

I'm not sure whether this would be a suitable question for SF or not. My broadband failed a few days ago and has just been restored. My ISP posted the output from a diagnostic test as a response to t …
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Information on the moderator candidates

Where can I find information on the candidates for the ServerFault and other elections?
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What to do with questions tagged "community-wiki"?

https://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/community-wiki Given the recent change to abolish CW questions, what do we do with these? Remove the tag. Get a diamond mod to convert the question Close th …
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On migrating to unix-SE

If you really feel that a question will be better off on the Unix & Linux site then flag the post for moderator attention and explain why. They have access to a "migrate anywhere" option which isn't …
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Should something be done about links that are direct to executable content?

I think what you did was OK. The OP answered your concerns by editing the post to indicate that it was a direct link to an exe and by explaining why he linked to it the first place. If you edit the l …
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Perception of purpose

I'd just like to expand on a comment I just left: Server Fault is for "people who manage or maintain computers in a professional capacity" (my italics). If you have a question about administering …
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Should users <3k flag to migrate?

There might be a case for allowing 3K+ users on the other sites to vote to migrate to that site. So I would be able to vote to migrate to either SO or SU. However, the cost of coding that logic proba …
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home-server tag

Given that it looks like all the questions with the tag have now been closed or migrated the simplest solution would be to delete all of these questions. Then, as the tag is not on any live question …
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Possible migration from Programmers

Do you guys want this question on testing a cluster of CPUs. It's already got one plain close vote and a flag for migration here.
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