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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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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 …
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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' …
16
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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!
15
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1
answer
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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 …
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answer
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You must have 5 reputation to participate on which site again?
The meta.SF FAQ states, in part:
You must have at least 5 reputation on the main website to participate on Server Fault.
Should it not say that you must have 5 reputation on Server Fault to part …
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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.
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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!
4
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Tag synonym [deploy] -> [deployment]
Looks pretty obvious to me.
The tags are now merged and synonymized: deploy -> deployment
3
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Accepted
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 …
3
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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 …
3
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Accepted
Add webmasters and networkengineering to our "on-topic" help page
Webmasters has been added to this list. Have fun!
2
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Accepted
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 …
2
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Accepted
Tag merge: p2v and physical-to-virtual
physical-to-virtual has been merged into p2v as a synonym. Enjoy!
2
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Poll: Administrator tag
This tag not only should be burninated, it should be blacklisted, so that it can never be used again.