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Closed as duplicate in error?
As TheCleaner pointed out, this is "too localized" for Server Fault.
Since we don't know what your company does (the advice for a medical services company or DoD contractor will be substantially diff …
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VirtualBox question
It is not "obvious" to me that this question is on-topic for Server Fault.
Just because a tool's website says "enterprise grade" DOES NOT magically make all questions about that tool "on topic". Co …
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Can I withdraw questions?
Nope.
You may delete your question (the closest thing we have to withdrawing it), or leave it "on hold" (converts to "closed" automatically after 5 days), but honestly your question, while "primarily …
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Why was my question on high-performance-networking put on hold?
I'm going to be extremely blunt, because it's after midnight here and I'm cranky:
In short what's wrong with your question is that instead of including all of this relevant information that you decide …
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Why was this question closed as off topic?
Server Fault is dedicated to serving a particular market: Professional system and network administrators (https://serverfault.com/about ; https://serverfault.com/help/on-topic).
From you question it …
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Why were my questions deleted and account suspended?
Is ServerFault just for moderators? Obviously, I'm being dramatic for effect, but the moderators came off as smug, snippy and snobbish, and gave the vibe that they want to keep the site for themsel …
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How to decide where is the line between StackOverflow and ServerFault
I closed your question as off-topic for one simple reason: You posted essentially the same question on Stack Overflow and Server Fault.
All you did for your question here was trim the code out (and i …
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The reason for closing my question about a VNC server problem is false
This really strikes me as a fringe question at best -- If your question were about creating the template, or deploying the template it would certainly be on-topic for Server Fault, but your question i …
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What makes this question “not real”?
Hmm. . .
Your question as originally phrased was basically "$_TUTORIAL told me to do X in part 1, and Y in part 2, why'd it do that?", which is why it got stomped on -- the only way to reasonably an …
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Is it acceptable to heavily edit my closed question?
This is really three questions:
Is it acceptable to edit a question that got closed before any answers were accumulated?
Absolutely.
To be blunt, if it has no answers the question was probably clos …
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Question closed by moderator on assumption that it was 'home stuff' which is incorrect!
As Scott already pointed out, this was a community closure, not a moderator closure -- five users, for whatever reasons they had, felt that your question did not meet the scope of topicality defined i …
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Why can one continue to downvote a closed question?
I partially agree with the sentiment here (once it's closed there's no reason to keep piling on downvotes just because they're free), but I think that's a human problem - not a technical one.
I beli …
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Shopping Question? Why?
The question you asked (Why is my question a shopping type of question?) has already been thoroughly answered by Mark Henderson, so I'm going to address the question you didn't ask -- How can I ask th …
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On-topic question closed as off topic?
Specifically Re: the Jungle Disk question, half of this question is unanswerable in any meaningful way.
Are there any known vulnerabilities with recent versions of Jungle Disk including 3.16?
If I …
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Should poorly researched, basic, but answerable questions be closed?
My two cents: I think there are two types of questions at play here:
Basic, Unresearched & Not Valuable questions ("Hey you guyses! I'm admining a Linux box! How do I show what programs are running!" …