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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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Why "professional capacity"?

They're here to avoid those clueless masses, while engaging in problem solving and discussion with people who are relatively equal in ability and knowledge. …
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Is it possible to see who upvoted or downvoted a reply?

No you can't see who voted for your question. Each person can only vote for either up or down (or no vote at all), not both. I don't know why you got downvoted, perhaps because the answer was presen …
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Should we try to eliminate password reset questions?

I'm torn on this one: Cons: Admins should know better than to lock themselves out. They have a responsibility to ensure proper security practices, and that should never lead to a "oops, I locked my …
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6 votes

Why was my server 2003 question moved to superuser.com?

There's a fellow with a question about using a Mac Mini as a "server" who went through the same discussion not long ago. In response to your update. …
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User seems to ask only homework questions. Is this a problem, or should I just ignore him?

Homework Questions in general lead to poor questions that are not useful to the community at large, so they're profiled and discriminated against, but not 'illegal'. His questions do seem to be homew …
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What kinds of Network questions belong to Serverfault and what belong to superuser?

If it's a network that you'd hire a SysAdmin to manage, it belongs on SF. If it's a home network, or something you'd typically find in a home setting, it belongs on SU. See the Official Meta FAQ Ques …
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2 votes

Defining the limits of self-promotion on Server Fault

My 2 cents: Suspend them like we are now, put a button in there to make objecting easier (flag for mod to review the suspension). I think most of these suspensions are completely valid and the spammer …
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3 votes

Server Fault Conference

ServerFault's HASIC (High Availability and Scalability Infrastructure Conference) I should get extra points for the number of syllables used.
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4 votes

Linked questions security vs. transparency.

I just plain never reveal the actual URL of the server or any other non-public information. I carefully strip IPs, DNS, and internal server names from my examples/questions/answers/etc. I even do so f …
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4 votes

Border Line Question for Server Fault?

It's not even close. It's a shopping question, and they aren't allowed.
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1 vote

There's snark, and then there's

First, can it please not be "The War on Snark". We've got enough drummed up "wars", though you might not be as familiar with as many being outside the United States of Wars on Everything (aka the USA) …
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4 votes

Amend an accepted answer to be more correct

Completely agree with the other two except in one particular circumstance. If the original person who Answers a question adds more content to his answer via comments, then it would be ok to edit them …
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New TMG tags backwards?

The "standard" is Vendor-Product-Version. Products which are so well known that anyone can name the company which produces it should have the company name left off. I would disagree with any assertion …
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3 votes

A small discrepency in the color tags at the bottom of the site

Actually it is a shade lighter. I know people have mentioned color issues before, especially with low contrast (or dynamic contrast) monitors. Also, it's not an image, it's a colored <span> tag.
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5 votes

Is it taboo to answer my own questions to promote nice features of <xyz> app?

Asking nebulous Questions about features, or how some component, of an app works is going to be off-topic. The question would have to be of a topic that a 3rd party would actually ask on SF. This will …
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