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Any reason not to display my full name in profile?

Pretty much what HBrujin said. Reasons why you might not want to use your real name: If you're going to ask questions like, say, "My employer is an idiot and they want me to do this stupid thin …
Katherine Villyard's user avatar
7 votes

What's the best close reason for impossible troubleshooting questions?

What HopelessN00b said. I've supported some truly horrible applications. Not horrible from the end-user standpoint--they did the task the end-user needed them to do, sometimes quite well--horrible …
Katherine Villyard's user avatar
17 votes
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Questions regarding running Apache on Windows

I'm going to say "leave them open" just because I've supported a couple of vendor products that require Apache on Windows. Those were mainstream packages (things like McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator) tha …
Katherine Villyard's user avatar
8 votes

2015 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection

I'm drunk/not reading carefully/don't hang out here much. Why should I vote for you instead of some other person? What problems does Server Fault face that are unique to Server Fault?
Katherine Villyard's user avatar
3 votes

How to deal with "marginal" answers on review?

What Ward and Reaces said. When in doubt I click through, and almost never fail any more. (Although I do back arrow to the queue before I click, haha, or open the actual post in a new window.) That …
Katherine Villyard's user avatar
8 votes

Is Server Fault the appropriate website to ask about system design questions?

Sadly, this sounds to me like something that might be closed as a duplicate of Can you help me with my capacity planning? Depending on how you define "system design," of course. I'm assuming this is …
Katherine Villyard's user avatar
38 votes

Abrupt change in moderation staff?

I guess this'll teach me to ignore meta for a few days. ;) This bothers me primarily because HopelessN00b is loud and brash and confrontational, and ran on a platform of, to put it n00b-ily, "slammi …
Katherine Villyard's user avatar
4 votes

Suggestion: helping amateurs to get their way to SU / unix SE

You know, sure, everyone's a newbie or a beginner at some point. Absolutely. On the other hand, demanding to know your place of employment so he can boycott it and using profanity against you make …
Katherine Villyard's user avatar
5 votes

How does the community feel about deleting the April Fools' question?

If we want to keep it--I'm not saying we do, I'm just saying if--I think it needs to be clearly labeled as "April Fools." With a tag, perhaps. (The rule being that you have to come back and retag yo …
Katherine Villyard's user avatar
3 votes
2 answers
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Minecraft Server Questions--VTC?

I'm honestly confused as to whether I should be VTCing these or not. I'm looking at them and trying to decide if they refer to technology that's useful outside of Minecraft servers or not, and using …
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4 votes

What can we do to fix the "Reasonable management practices" close reason?

It's better than "not professional," because that sounds like we're slamming the OP rather than the question, but it's still vague. I think it's trying to convey, "hardware, software, and practices r …
Katherine Villyard's user avatar
2 votes
2 answers
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Missing badges?

I know that the cool kids have been running around talking about "fake internet points" since the mod election. That probably means that it'd be cool to not need any steeking badges, either, but I'm …
Katherine Villyard's user avatar
20 votes

Can anything be done about mods robo-rejecting edits that are objective improvements?

I was one of the people who rejected many of your edits (and approved others). Namely, any edit that consisted solely of removing the word "Thanks" at the bottom got a no. In one case, you'd removed …
Katherine Villyard's user avatar
6 votes

Remove "Professional" close-reason

I opened a new question for "ask your vendor." For the second half of what gets tossed into the "Professional" close reason, I'd propose something like: Questions must be relevant to production …
Katherine Villyard's user avatar
19 votes
4 answers
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Proposed close reason: Ask your vendor/sysadmin

ChrisS said here that y'all were looking for text for an "ask your vendor" close reason. I'd like to propose: Questioners must have required access to fix the problem. Some questions are more …
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