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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 …
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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 …
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Accepted
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 …
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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?
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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 …
8
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
5
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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 …
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2
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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 …
4
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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 …
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2
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …