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user 32986
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Why close questions?
Questions that do not include adequate information are "not a real question" -- perhaps not the best name, but certainly the correct reason:
It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. …
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3
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What about a questionnaire that is perfectly valid contentwise?
Not on the main site, no - ServerFault is a place for Questions (pertaining to system administration, usually problems that someone encountered) that can be Answered ("Do X to fix it" or "Your design is …
- 80.6k
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What is the best site to ask IT support questions?
We generally expect that people asking questions here are "the sysadmin" or "the IT department" and have already done a good amount of troubleshooting on their own, with some thorough Google searching … As RobM mentioned, there is an implicit assumption of scale on Server Fault -- people asking questions here are supposed to be system/network administrators, and asking about environments (though that …
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List Questions - What to do with new ones
GENERAL CASE: List Questions Suck
List questions off the form "What X do you use for Y?", "What products exist that do Z?", and the like are crap questions. … Possible Exceptions
Checklist Questions
A good checklist / Best Practices question that can be used by others to develop their own checklists can be a Good Thing. …
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Should Server Fault stop accepting questions from unregistered users?
I don't think you should have to register to ask questions. …
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