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If you need to spend a lot of time searching for interesting ones or ones you can answer, you should refine your search criteria. Granted, the in-site search feature doesn't give very good results if …

Honestly, and this applies to both bounty and normal questions, but I think it crosses the line when ever my patience expires and/or my mood changes. Not particularly objective or broadly applicable, …

You're free to use your votes absolutely anyway you see fit, which you see irrefutable proof of here (no way that question objectively merits 158 upvotes). However, I don't think you'll find anyone w …

With the caveats that you ask questions in accordance with the FAQ, and bear in mind that specialized questions of that type may only attract tumbleweeds, I'd say go right ahead. I've seen questions …

Actually, I use ServerFault as a resource for work. When I started the new job about half a year ago, I created my ServerFault account expressly because of the benefits it would provide me. I've lur …

If you hover your mouse over the down arrow, you'll see: This question does not show any any research effort; it is unclear or not useful Doesn't always apply yo why a question got downvoted, bu …

I've actually thought about this on and off for a while, and I think the better approach would be like what was done recently with the spam question - broaden it a bit to basically an I lost a bunch o …

Given that the purpose of SE is to make money for Joel and his investors (and maybe still Jeff too?), I don't think we'll see a lot of incentivization to delete old questions, even closed ones. Googl …

Here's how you do it with PPTP: [...] By the way, PPTP is pretty insecure, so if you care at all about the security of your VPN connection, you'll probably want to replace your PPTP V …

It's akin to a discussion amongst technical peers... technical peers, who, let's not forget, have a well-earned reputation for being insensitive and using sharp language. … As I said earlier, having a discussion over whether or not "ass" is ever appropriate strikes me as far more unprofessional and juvenile than actually seeing the word "ass" used. …

If it answers the question, why not? Ideally, sure, you'd only answer questions you had practical experience on. Then again, ideally, we wouldn't get questions from people who hadn't even Googled th …

Observing a few of your questions, what stood out to me the most, is that they seem to show little to no research effort. I don't agree with them being closed (but am not surprised by it either), how …

Just walk away. It may be sad that this is the state of "professionals" in 2014 (it may also be a lucrative opportunity, or a road to a comfortable living through slacking by against weak competition …

Given that the ServerFault audience is IT professionals, I'm not sure that a question and answer explaining a fundamental concept is useful in the context of this site. Professionals should already h …

It also says in the close reason: learning material recommendations are off-topic because they tend to become obsolete quickly ... and they do. There's more than just that, like the fact that w …