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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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Question about making an address inside a VPN public temporarily
The question is on-topic, although beware that asking questions about trying to defeat a VPN will yield answers about it being bad practice, but I do have a constructive answer for you, should you ask …
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Why are learning materials questions off-topic?
I think this may be confusing for a new person to grasp, it was hard for me to grasp as well. I'll do the best I can.
We want to attract experts
The main site ServerFault.com has specific guidelines …
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Is it OK to just ask a question so you can post your own answer?
To add to MichaelHampton's answer, the SE network encourages this style of information sharing, which is why it was made possible a while back to ask a question and post an answer at the same time. (t …
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Should someone post an answer when all they did was Google Fu?
I answered a question today while knowing little about the subject, and all I did was Google. True, some googlers are better than others, and perhaps I deserved the 1 upvote I got for such. However, i …
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What should the community take away from panel-gate?
The event that has been dubbed panel-gate by members of the community has sparked emotion and even outrage from the community with regard to the actions of some, and how the events unfolded.
The fact …
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How are our questions indexed/googlable so fast?
Asked a question earlier for a problem I was having. After a few minutes I went back to searching for a solution, and came across
I don't know much about SEO or web-scraping beyond the basics, but …
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Should ServerFault loosen its tie and start allowing "Shopping" questions?
I'm not sure we should 'just say no' on this one. Crap questions are gonna be here. However, there is some really niche, hard to find software out there, that other sysadmins may have come across.
F …
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New close reason - Proposals (April 2015)
One reason I propose is either
Failure to show prior effort to solve the problem
According to our guidelines for asking a good question, Server Fault should be the last stop in your quest fo …
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New close reason - Proposals (April 2015)
I have been more active in the close queue lately and found myself looking for specific close reasons, or even anything close to them, but not seeing them. I don't know the proper process for requesti …
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About bad questions, is answering them a way to encourage them?
I say yes, it is. If nothing else, answered bad questions can be used as a precedent to ask more bad questions.
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Are we getting out-of-hand with all of the sub-communities?
tldr; some sub-sites are justified, others are just a pain.
I believe so, especially when you consider that revenue is generated via ads, and the more visits to a single SE site the better.
I tried to …
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Feature Request: Question Approval Queue
Prompted by this answer, the poster mentioned an idea about quarantining questions. I commented on it, and wanted to expand on it by using this meta post to receive feedback and critique, and hopefull …
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How do you sort unanswered questions with [tag] by newest first?
I don't want to answer a question that 2 years old when the OP hasn't been seen in 1 year 364 days. That's an extreme case but typically when I look at unanswered questions for $tag they are unsorted, …
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How can we recruit and retain more talent?
Tangentially related to another meta post, the last discussion about this was a while back, so it may be time to revisit this topic. …
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