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My prodding seems to have awakened the Stack Exchange dragons -- It looks like Server Fault will be getting our own survey similar to what has been done for Stack Overflow for a while now. I've got a …

The comments in question got zapped because they were more appropriate as a Meta discussion here (why a particular question or components of it are on/off topic, why certain comments are allowed to stay … of weed-pulling (knocking down older questions like that one when we find them) and just as much constructive pruning (refining new questions to make them excellent, not just good -- the point of this discussion …

I've been meaning to join LOPSA for a while - this is a good excuse to force myself to do it :)

Generally I would say no. RedHat is RedHat. CentOS is extremely similar to RedHat (bug-for-bug-compatible in many cases), but it is not RedHat. The most major and glaring difference that comes to min …

There's definitely a line between "good snarky" (where the question gets answered or the poster gets pointed at the right solution) and "bad snarky" (where we're just being mean) -- I can't think of a …

Do I think your question should have been downvoted? No. It is not a bad question, there's nothing inherently wrong with it (even though it's been asked before). Do I think your question should have …

I would normally add a comment saying something like "Also see @user's answer below" on the accepted answer, but I generally don't like to edit other people's answers for content myself...

Generally I would say only downvote a question if it's a lousy question. The same holds true for answers, and is regardless of age. Sometimes I will troll through the "unanswered" old questions in t …

I like the "allow users with X rep to bypass the blacklist" option that ChrisS suggested. It lets users who we as a community trust bypass a filter that's designed to keep the low-quality "HALP! HALP …

I have no problem with this -- There should probably be a "Delete" tab analogous to the "Close" tab on /review to make this easier. ETA: It's probably most logical to start with the oldest questions …

I generally discourage (and fix) questions/answers that link to external files/references -- The relevant bits should be included in the question/answer. I don't mind a "Go here for more information" …

This makes sense to me. To answer @gWaldo's comment, DOS is still very much alive and kicking (and screaming, and doing all sorts of other horrible things). I will admit to having software at $job ru …

Hmm - I don't know that maintenance of commercial, networked laser printers is off topic, but I don't know that it's on-topic either. Laser printer maintenance on commercial units basically boils dow …

I like lizards. Sometimes turtles.

I've noticed an uptick in questions that are literally asking us to read the vendor's spec sheets to someone (There's PowerEdge 2950 hard disk , this weekend we had one asking what the address space …