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The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.

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Is it 'Minor Edit Week' or something?

I've noticed that this week we're getting a lot of tiny pointless edits to posts (https://serverfault.com/users/100013/jakegould, https://serverfault.com/users/294235/lnux?tab=activity) - how are they …
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Why are learning materials questions off-topic?

Because this site is for professional sysadmins and without it we're inundated with "can you do my job for me" requests by people who aren't professional sysadmins. Also because an essential part of …
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Christmas Hats 2013 Edition!

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Being professional to professionals

I can be horrible to lazy idiots, just nasty, I know this and I know I'm wrong - but I can spot a pro from a mile away and will always respect them, in fact I quite often comment to them how good thei …
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Why are moderators/high rep users focused on narrowing the scope of SF?

Why are moderators/high rep users focused on narrowing the scope of SF? I can't speak for everyone but I'm not interested in narrowing the scope at all, I am however very interested in maintain …
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Questions to ask the SE staff regarding the future of ServerFault

There is user concern regarding the direction ServerFault has been heading over the past year; in particular what some, myself included, see as a significant rise in inappropriate and bad questions fr …
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Is there a voice chat version of the Server Fault 'Comms Room'?

Why yes indeed there is! It's at ts3server://46.20.116.64?port=10767 and there's no password, but please do use your Server Fault user name on there too to save confusion.
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Is there a voice chat version of the Server Fault 'Comms Room'?

Is there a voice chat version of the Server Fault 'Comms Room'? Perhaps using the TeamSpeak 3 protocol?
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Why the major FAQ/help change?

as those users with experience of the site, who put a lot of time into it, will leave or reduce their time on the site because of the lowered signal to noise ratio that's been introduced without any discussion
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Should we vote/close old Shopping questions?

Yes
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I don't understand why a question is not a REAL question?

The stack exchange system is a democracy, five people voted to close your question for whatever reasons they chose, that gets it closed, simple as that. It's the same on movies.se, stackoverflow, all …
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What's our policy on questions regarding unreleased code?

Do have a policy on answering questions on unreleased code and if we don't should we? I've always assumed that we don't answer questions about alpha/beta/RTM etc. code - but that's an assumption, do …
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Inline HyperLink Color

Use Stylish to change the colours then.
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Whats really being taken in consideration to close a question?

Whats really being taken in consideration to close a question? Whether five people chose to click 'close' or not. That's it, that's all - nobody has mind-reading powers to figure out what people …
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Are we too nice to high rep mods?

I'd be the first one to admit I treat 'high rep' users better than 'low rep' ones. But when I say 'rep' I don't mean of the SF numeric kind, I mean do they write clearly, are they obviously smart, no …
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