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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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Will/Should Serverfault be dropping the "networking support" in the upcoming future?
Don't get hung up on the name. Seriously, servers are a small fraction of our topicality. I've heard this argument many times now and it's getting really old.
If we made subjects off-topic here when …
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What are the canonical answers we've discovered over the years?
List of Canonical Topics that do not have a Q/A yet or need improvement:
Career
When does my small business need a SA
How many users/servers/whatever should a SA be responsible for
How do I protect …
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Questions to ask the SE staff regarding the future of ServerFault
A "comment" on Question #7:
Usually when I close questions from new users as being off-topic (particularly when they're in the "You need to hire a consultant or something" category) I get sucked into …
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Are "Help me get [X] to compile!" questions off-topic?
Questions with these attributes stay:
The Exact Error
The Exact Command/Sequence used to generate The Error
Operating System (Distro, version, etc), Software being compiled
Software that has somethi …
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What is the recommend way to ask a new question which is an off shoot of a previously asked ...
The previous question and answer set looks fairly complete. If that response acceptably answers the question you had there, you should mark it as the correct/accepted answer, then ask a new question. …
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What kind of database/DBA questions does the SF community want to keep?
Question about configuring the software and typical administrative tasks (backup & recovery; installation; processor, memory & hardware; engine selection; clustering) should stay.
Questions about DB …
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How can we recruit and retain more talent?
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, …
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Paddington Bear Choppertar
Revenge of the choptar meme.
Photo by: https://serverfault.com/users/16732/tom-oconnor
Original Question: Two servers using same name servers?
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