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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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Remove the messages tag

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 …
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Is SF's "good question range" too narrow?

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 …
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question downvoting

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 …
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2014 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire

There is a lot of discussion about the quality of questions on SF; this is a topic that comes up regularly in meta. …
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Does unzip (and un-other-compress) deserve its own tag?

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 …
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Should this question have been / why was this question closed?

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 …
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11 votes

Is there recourse for abusive moderation?

I read over the question...and you added the bit about not being able to upgrade Fedora 14 after the comments were made. On ServerFault, we expect askers to have some measure of professional experien …
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How should we deal with "slow-motion trainwreck" questions?

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 …
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7 votes

Some kind of appeal process for questions marked duplicate?

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.
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What questions are on topic for ServerFault? What is the right thing to do if I asked an off...

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 …
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Appropriateness of a "Best April Fools Day IT pranks" question

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 …
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Closing OT crappy questions

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 …
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Why was my question on high-performance-networking put on hold?

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 [ …
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Creating a canonical "Help, I'm Getting DDOS-ed!" question?

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 …
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New close reasons - Proposals (July 2013)

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 …

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