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I'm thinking this would be difficult to accomplish because there's literally hundreds of different reasons/ways that high load averages can result from. The article Adrian linked is a good start. Exp …

We could probably just use the "minimal understanding" close reason. Many questions are "crap" because there's just not enough thought put into the question. As the close reason explains, it expects t …

ServerFault is meant to be Q&A about problems and solutions to those problems, not for opinions. In the strict interpretation of what's on-topic, I'd say this is firmly on the "opinion-based" side of …

The most important thing to do is show your research! If you need help, you need to show people what you've done yourself to solve the problem and why your solutions didn't work. This shows that you'r …

When a closed/dupe post is edited, it automatically is dumped into a special queue ("nominated" for reopening) and enough votes will get it reopened.

Your question would be perfectly in-scope here as you're troubleshooting a problem and looking for someone with possible solutions for it. It never hurts to post a well thought out question and see ho …

There's nothing anyone on SF can really advise people to do except contact their upstream provider ...I don't think a canonical would be useful because of this case. Instead, a comment with "contact y …

You couldn't be any more rude with your comments, could you? The close reasons are not meant to be taken personally. For what it's worth, I VTC'd the topic because the answer can be easily found on [ …

There is a lot of discussion about the quality of questions on SF; this is a topic that comes up regularly in meta. …

Agreed. Since I have a bit of time to kill, I'll start removing the tags from the questions. There's 26 questions with that tag; none of which were asked this year. Once that's done, it'll just disapp …

I generally VTC those types of questions with "not professional" because he did not provide all the information out of the gate to begin with, signaling that the OP has no idea what he wants and inste …

Well, other than the question being over a year old at this point, the question will definitely attract subjective opinions rather than cold, hard facts that a Q&A site normally delivers. Plus, said …

I disagree because most of these questions aren't even on-topic. If they are, it's unrelated to the act of zipping/unzipping and instead something else, so the tag isn't even relevant. Just my two ce …

To expand on Iain's comments, the voting scheme is purely defined by the overall community and isn't directly controlled by Stack Exchange or the moderators. Questions that violate our FAQ (including …

I like: Needs Additional Research Server Fault is a site for professional system and network administrators. To best assist with your issue, please try doing some of your own research and make an …