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This is a consequence of the OP doing it wrong in asking a bad question, creating a new question instead of editing the port information into the original, then deleting the first instance after the s …

Because it's off-topic, per the "on-topic" page for the site. Not unrelatedly, Server Fault is supposed to be for professional administrators. If someone needs to "learn about networking" without …

As suggested in comments, it was locked to prevent it from being bumped to the front page ("active" questions view) when I retagged it. At least as of when I last had diamond privs, unlocking a quest …

There's a difference between being polite and being nice. It may be polite to hold a beginner's hand and explain in a simple-to-understand fashion how to make a pipe bomb, but it's not nice (or a goo …

The point of the first posts review queue is simply to get more eyes on new posts (and new posters), not to give them different treatment once those eyeballs on on them. As such, don't treat those p …

This particular edit, whatever you may think of it, "clearly conflicts with the author's intent". "Even edits that make drastic changes should strive to preserve the goals of the post's owner." On …

Personally, I'd tend to favor leaving them open. We may not be able to offer better advice than general how-to-troubleshoot-crappy-code instructions in order to give it the permissions it requires, b …

A moderator would have to undelete it, as normal users can't cast undelete votes on answers deleted by mods. For what it's worth, I agree with you that it is an answer to the question.

After a question was recently closed the poster of said question started downvoting posts of everybody participating in the closure of his question. Is such behavior considered appropriate? No, it's …

You did the right thing for the moment by editing in that it self-resolved, to prevent people from making futile attempts at answering it. Personally, I'd wait a while to make sure it stays resolved. …

I recommend doing whatever you feel is appropriate. You have the required rep, so the SE system trusts you with making that judgement. (I think it also assumes that there are more than ~7 active mem …

(cough noob cough) Oh, that jerk... yeah, he sucks. But, at the same time, 50 close votes a day... use 'em or lose 'em. If they age out, they can be re-cast, so worst case, "losing" a close vot …

So you want to develop a... monitoring and/or alerting service? O...K. I'd recommend buying my book titled: The Wheel, and How to Reinvent It. Like Iain said, it's hard to say for sure without see …

who are insisting it's a good thing to be cleaning up the crap, the Community Managers who see my actions as unilateral or suspicious or detrimental, the members who think there should have been more discussion … low-quality or off-topic or just plain bad questions (and probably easily into the tens of thousands) is enough of a chore without having to talk about doing it too, especially when I've been in that discussion …

No new meta discussion. Explain this. … There is no new meta discussion precisely because this is not a sudden change, or a controversial one. …