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Maybe the right response is to have more open discussions on newer questions Perhaps, but SE has a strong anti-discussion slant. … To that end some of the original founds have now moved on to creating a great "discussion" website: http://discourse.org Sorry I'm skipping the rest of your questions as their either redundant or more …

The third close-reason is currently: Questions must be relevant to professional system administration. Server Fault is dedicated to professional system and network administrators. End user and ent …

Of the active mods*: 3 Mods are in UTC-5, some tend to roll into work a bit later than others, but we're all most active in the 1300-2200Z range. 1 Mod in UTC+10, that mod get's up too damn early, s …

Eh, sorta... You can set robots.txt to not index the transcripts of particular rooms or the whole site. But: That doesn't stop anyone from copying the content, and allowing it to be indexed from the …

We only had unzip, no unrar, gunzip, bunzip2, etc... zip could probably use some review for topicality as Michael points out.

I only use the "minimal understanding" reason in one scenario. It starts with reading a question and having the instant and immediate thought "$DEITY bless this poor fellow for he knows not what he do …

TL;DR Answers Would it be legitimate to post a "follow-up"? Yes, if you have a problem that is similar to a crap Question, ask a new question. If yes: How can i make sure to not get closed a …

From this post: Enable automatic deletion of old, unanswered zero-score questions after a year? If the question is more than 30 days old, and ... has −1 or lower score has no answers i …

From this post: Enable automatic deletion of old, unanswered zero-score questions after a year? If the question is more than 365 days old, and ... has a score of 0 or a score of 1 with a d …

Almost certainly Yes. Unless you're trying to do something hack-ish, unsupportable, or completely weird. For example, Ikea Table "Racks" would be off-topic. But assembly of 0U PDUs would be on-topic. …

There's no benefit to passing an audit, and almost no detriment to failing, so I'm not sure the extra effort is worth the almost non-existant reward... However, if you see something that should be co …

It depends on what the hardware is and what it's being used for. Your example LCD vs LED Monitors would not be suitable for Server Fault, as it doesn't appear to have anything to do with Server, Netwo …

You're unblocked. Be warned that you're only 1 downvote away from being block again. So use the "Ask Question" button wisely.

Done - Answers now have to be 30 characters long......

Warning: This is something of a though-stream, so... The visible symptom: Attracting and retaining people who can positively participate in the community, either both asking and answering questions, …