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Paddington Bear Choppertar
Erm...my fault.
There's a theme park near where I live called 'Adventure Wonderland', I was forced to go about 5 years ago with another local family. Well it was beyond crappy - I was SO bored, then …
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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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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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How do high-reputation SF users solve their own problems?
You missed me off the list! 2155 answers, 28 questions :)
Anyway the answer is that they, and I, are smart, experienced and resourceful.
We've done this a long time, building instincts that help wit …
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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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"Serverfault Apprenticeships"
I don't believe the Q&A format can address every need so I've been thinking...
You know how we always blow any 'I'm a student etc.' questions out of the water? What if we could have some form of 'SF …
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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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Do mods now have to write nice emails to spammers?
I just noticed I can no longer quickly suspend spammers, I have to write an email to them (most have invalid emails anyway).
I know this is to appease the few users per year who, when their first 5 p …
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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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Is this query really "crap"?
But the question was crap; if my hand is lying on the floor, blood is spurting from my wrist and I'm losing consciousness I don't ask my Doctor what's up, it's beyond obvious.
Serverfault is for prof …
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Downvoting really old questions?
People are perfectly entitled to use their votes however they like, it's something of a democracy - if there's an answer you don't like then do as you please, I routinely up-vote really old questions …
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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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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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It's Santa Time!
How's this;