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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 …

Remove as migration target now. It's been a problem for years, so I don't know how anyone could possibly think waiting a little longer will change things.

Given the recent uptick in new users with new questions, I've been noticing an even sharper-than-normal decline in quality on the site and a correlated increase in the number of questions about how to …

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 …

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

I can't tell you if it's more suitable for SO or not, but the question you describe sounds like it would be topical on Server Fault, yes.

I have a simple question, per the title, that I'd like community feedback on before venturing over to Stack Exchange meta and/or bugging one of the Stack Exchange Community Managers. Should the rep r …

I wouldn't take it personally. I have it on good authority that the guy's just a prick. But, he's a prick who's going through a massive tag cleanup effort at the moment, so he probably bumped into a …

I handled that, so I'll tell you why I did what I did: It's on topic here. It might also be on topic at Unix & Linux, it might even be more on topic at Unix & Linux (for the sake of argument, say), bu …

As someone who approved a good lot of your last batch of edits, I'm in total agreement with the users who rejected subsequent ones, and for the reasons mentioned. I personally stopped after a while, …

What hostility? Telling a developer "hire a sysadmin" might not be the answer he's looking for, but it's hardly hostile, disrespectful or unreasonable in response to a question that amounts to "wha …

So, lately, Ive been noticing more and more questions that are, for lack of a better term, "slow-motion trainwrecks." For example: Is that OK to leave a small endless loop script running on server? …

Congrats Sven, sorry Ward, and... well, I'll let Kent Brockman say the rest. I will try not to screw it up too badly, too quickly.

For example, if a question has a hint of Linux in it it gets booted over to U&L, if it has a hint of databases in it it gets booted to DBA and if you're doing any programming/scripting in your role …

Being the guy who sparked this whole thing, I guess it's time I weigh in with my stance. In line with the consensus given in the latest in the years of discussions on this topic, they should be close …