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Absolutely not! It would have had greater effect if it read: Your boss hasn't given you any substantive reason, in saying this. You should definitely ask for more details (we can't possibly give …

I don't think there is any particular need to address that beyond the general requirement to be nice. In this field, as with many others, beneath the professional tone used at work, there are often a …

There is a lot of discussion about the quality of questions on SF; this is a topic that comes up regularly in meta. … It might just be best to talk to the reviewer, using a review ban only to provide weight to the discussion so it cannot be ignored. …

I often see, in the close queue, questions like this one: Understanding the Basics of Subdomains with VirtualHosts In it, the asker (who was of course edited for formatting) is wondering why his nam …

This is precisely the definition of an edit which is too minor. If we accept that this adds value and should be approved, we must accept virtually anything. The edit doesn't materially improve the l …

It looks that your question might have been a good fit for http://webmasters.stackexchange.com, since it has little to do with professional system administration and much to do with hosting a website. …

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 …

There are questions that get asked, from time to time, whose answers are fundamental and blindingly obvious to anyone with a reasonable amount of knowledge about the topic being considered, such as th …

Absolutely. Part of the draw of this site and a big reason for its quality is that you don't have to wade through chat and sequencing stuff and history to get to the solution you want. For much the …

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 …

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 …

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 tend to view the criteria as somewhat more complex and subjective than that summary. If a question seems intelligent or interesting, has a purpose, and is on-topic, I will tend to upvote it. A que …

It does seem entirely redundant and overbroad, and the questions in it are all tagged with other tags (and have no particular unifying feature). Death to it.

purchase recommendations (or recommendations for a tutorial or a book), questions so broad in scope that the answer could be either a book or a detailed consulting report, or questions that are really just discussion …