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VirtualBox tag warning

One Stack Exchange feature which is significantly underutilized here at SF is tag warnings. These pop up when a user enters a tag into their question and can provide guidance on how to use the tag or …
2 votes

Poll: Administrator tag

This tag not only should be burninated, it should be blacklisted, so that it can never be used again.
Michael Hampton's user avatar
4 votes
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Tag synonym [deploy] -> [deployment]

Looks pretty obvious to me. The tags are now merged and synonymized: deploy -> deployment
Michael Hampton's user avatar
17 votes
1 answer
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Rewriting "minimal understanding"

This current close reason is confusing and potentially misleading. Questions must demonstrate a minimal understanding of the problem being solved. Try including attempted solutions, why they didn' …
7 votes
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Suggested edits on duplicate tags

In a case like this, you should bring the tags to meta so that we can do this: regexp has been merged into regex and synonymized. Enjoy!
Michael Hampton's user avatar
28 votes
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Rewriting "minimal understanding"

I propose that we rip off SO again, and that this close reason be rewritten as follows: Questions seeking installation, configuration or diagnostic help must include the desired end state, the spe …
Michael Hampton's user avatar
29 votes

Is it time to kill problematic tags like cpanel, plesk, whm and webmin?

We should ruthlessly close questions which are inappropriate for us, though I have a plot twist: A few weeks ago I had a discussion with one of the Webmasters moderators, who expressed interest in ha …
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12 votes
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Are commercial placeholder domain names not blocked here?

They should be blacklisted here. But the blacklists are site-specific, not network-wide. They're also not something moderators can touch, so someone from Stack Exchange would have to add them.
Michael Hampton's user avatar
2 votes
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Tag merge: p2v and physical-to-virtual

physical-to-virtual has been merged into p2v as a synonym. Enjoy!
Michael Hampton's user avatar
16 votes

Should folks have to click through an interstitial page to ask questions on Server Fault?

This wasn't already enabled? Why the hell not? Turn it on now!
Michael Hampton's user avatar
3 votes
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Add webmasters and networkengineering to our "on-topic" help page

Webmasters has been added to this list. Have fun!
Michael Hampton's user avatar
2 votes
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Interpretation of Off Topic

The About page and /help/on-topic are now in sync.
Michael Hampton's user avatar
3 votes

Inadequate Review Audit Test

This is a broken review audit. There's a question on mSO about it already, though that question doesn't really address this specific aspect of the problem. (This question doesn't quite do it either, s …
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3 votes
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Why was my rsync filter question regarding a business merger closed?

I didn't vote to close this question, but I came pretty close. I thought about it for a while. I'll take a wild guess at why some people voted to close it: The business context you mentioned in your …
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Are there really over 270 first posts today?

Yes, it was the result of a problem - one that was fixed. A bug in the First Posts review queue was causing questions from new users to not be added to the queue. The bug fix was rolled out earlier t …
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