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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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Free LOPSA Memberships

I'd be interested in joining. Canada ho!
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Best 'restricted shell' question

This is one that crops up often: How to restrict the users' shell allowing to execute shell programs But is it the best example we can find of a 'canonical' question on which we can close duplicates …
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Update your Gravatars in repsonse to SOPA/PIPA?

Here is a handy overlay (the one I used for my gravatar, should you choose to use it.
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tired of having questions closed -- please refine your FAQ

No, that is an invalid assumption. If I ask a question about configuring IPv6 on my corporate network and whether my subnetting/address assignment/whatever makes sense, that is on topic. If I ask a …
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The [windows-server-2008] tag is a mess. Let the manual retagging begin!

Is it possible to put a Supercollider notification in place for those questions? That may shift some of the burden to the asker of the question. Even if just helps on a few hundred, that would be a b …
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Are problems that turned out to be typos "Not a Real Question"?

How to solve authentication error in sendmail relay through gmail It may be NARQ, but this may actually be useful to people in the future. "Hmm… this person's problem was solved by double-checking …
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Why can't I find chat button link on server faults like its in Stack overflow?

Welcome to Server Fault! You may be… disappointed by the often non-server-related topics on ServerFault chat. ;) You'll also need rep on the main site before you can talk in chat. Please ask a good …
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Why was my question on high-performance-networking put on hold?

It's an awful question. You have GigE and are complaining that you can't download at 100MBps from some random site? Please. Listen buddy, the Internet is the Wild West. You have NO IDEA what's going …
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Canonical: "What should I do about this user?"

What should I do about a "misbehaving" user? This type of question really is one that crops up every once in a while - any sysadmin will eventually come across user behaviour that is potentially dama …
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BOFH Gravatar Week - Let's keep going!

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In heaven complaining about hell

Instead of beeing harsh, (much as I joke, I do agree with the others. This is not a place to have a conversation, stick with the answering. If you don't have enough rep to comment, get some).
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Retag: sunsolaris10 → solaris-10, sunsolaris → solaris

I suggest adding sunsolaris10 as an synonym to solaris-10. As well, add sunsolaris as an synonym to solaris. The bare name is more correct.
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Can we black hole the "errors" tag?

Yes we can! http://i43.tower.com/images/mm106974005/bob-builder-yes-we-can-dvd-cover-art.jpg
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Creating a canonical "A: Hire a professional" question

This is not a good idea. We have enough of a problem with being snippy around here without being able to rattle off a 'U NOOB! HIRE A SYSADMIN!' with a link to a canonical answer saying so. That is R …
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Change or retract a vote to close

There are as well those cases where a question is edited to make it (IMNSHO) generic and applicable to the site, for instance: https://serverfault.com/questions/226721/prevent-poweroff-on-debian-when …
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