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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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SPARTA-kick it off a cliff: [SOFTWARE-REC]

Ooh, I like this game. dynamic Dynamic what? memory ram Synonym candidate In fact... http://data.stackexchange.com/serverfault/query/59684/top-tags-by-closed-question-ratio BURN THEM ALL
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Is it possible to ask procurement questions for newbies?

Sorry, no :( We can't judge your needs without a lot of detail. Since you don't know a lot, we'd have to ask a lot. That's bleeding into the realm of consulting. I do that, but it takes hours and I c …
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Proposed Question: What RFCs should a IT Professional know by number?

The only one I ever felt was important to know by number is RFC 2549.
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Canonical: "Help me size my wholly unspecified application" question

I did some writing about two weeks back that included me rambling on that... we can probably pick or even draft up a question on which I can talk about start small, measure, and scale well. There is …
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Where should I ask a question about cookies and privacy?

We would accept that question at Security.
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Merge / alias tags: multihomed and multi-homed

multihomed multi-homed Filler, filler, 30 characters...
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Should questions that are sysadmin-relevant but not sysadmin-specific be closed as Off Topic?

If a question is relevant to systems/network administration, it is on topic, even if it is also a generic question about a particular platform or technology. The litmus test I've started using fr …
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What to do with an accepted answer which is plainly wrong?

All I can really say is that shit happens. If it's bad, downvote it. from How can I list my open ports on Debian? if "-10 votes" isn't a signpost, there's very little else we reasonably can do. Oh, …
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The bad tag collection

I wrote a query a little over a month ago that sorts tags based upon their closure ratio. Some of them are legitimate tags (nntp seems like a keeper), but most are just signs of poor tag choices or to …