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I tossed an extra downvote on the question, since it is abundantly clear that it has nothing to do with professional system administration. If AV software is causing a problem, the administrator conf …

You do not need to do the entire review queue yourself! Even if someday you are miraculously elected moderator! If the initial close votes were cast in error, it would be another story, but I'm not …

The tag is not necessarily evil, but I have no doubt this is a hotspot for off-topic questions. I intend to go through them on a case-by-case basis a bit, and I suggest other non-moderators do the sa …

At least as often as not, when I am answering a question, I am not doing the thing the person asking it is trying to do. I might even only be talking about theory, wherein there is nothing to take a …

I don't know! I won't write scripts or code for people on here because it's time-consuming and I don't want to support the code later. I'd rather explain theory, for the same reason you would I thin …

No! Not even a bit! The IdM topic in general lies firmly within system administration, and those questions are welcome here. I don't see very many of them (so I don't know how an area 51 proposal w …

The appearance of EOL stuff in a question is clearly not dispositive. On the other hand, if the use of EOL things in the case given is unreasonable or even stupid, such as when the asker is setting u …

I think this is lovely. I almost have a hard-to-get moderation badge out of it (because the queues besides first posts and close votes are very sparse here). But no, the actual reason this is good i …

You would not be the first to complain about this kind of thing. Even a cursory glance through the review-audits tag would yield dozens of similar complaints, were they properly tagged. But, see her …

hacking isn't substantively different from security in context, and it should be made a synonym. Shall it be done?

Merge away.

I think there's definitely a bright line here. With vendor-sponsored forums, you end up with a lot of angry chatter between customers, and when you look through such things there are pages of people …

I am Falcon! Here are my answers! I also still stand by my answers last year. We had an election last year that ended with some parting and drama. And I can't help but think of Ryan Ries` c …

Briefly explain the role of a moderator, and what you plan to do to fill that role. What is awesome about your approach?

As a candidate, I think I should clarify my position on this. Mod-hammering is sometimes appropriate. I'd even go so far as to say that it is often appropriate. There are a lot of very clear and di …