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Is this the kind of language we should be promoting on SF

I actually had a "test" come up in the review queue where the answer was an upvoted answer that compared users to puppies piddling on the carpet and ranted about how stupid they were. When I clicked …
Katherine Villyard's user avatar
9 votes

How to contact authors (of questions or answers in serverfault)

Honestly, I would be down on private messaging. I don't mind the shout-out in the chat room, and someone has used that with me once, but... I'll count the ways. I was on the Internet back in the d …
Katherine Villyard's user avatar
8 votes

Should you answer against best practices just to answer the question?

For me, it depends on the question and how strongly I feel about it. Which is, obviously, subjective. No big deal, but technically not the most AWESOME approach: only mention it in passing, if at …
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
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
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
14 votes

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
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
11 votes

Is this site becoming what it's aspiring to be?

discussion must include "How can we encourage more good questions?" as well. …
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11 votes

2014 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection

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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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
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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 …
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