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No, each question should be judged on its own merits. Although we all agree that life-cycle management is important, its is also difficult. Good questions about legacy products are welcome.

I just read this question, which seems like a reasonable question. The first answer posted also seems like good response, which I was about to vote up on, when I noticed that it was both posted at e …

Server assembly is not part of the job description of most system administrators and that makes such questions off-topic. The basic skill set required for server and computer assembly is partly what …

I'm not a moderator but have been one of the people rejecting your edits when I noticed them in the review queue, although the review queues require multiple reviewers to completely accept or reject a …

Most people who use .htaccess and ask about it on ServerFault should not be using .htaccess in the first place as that is an end-user solution never intended for administrators: You should avoid …

As a Q&A site we strive for questions that result in a right and correct answer that, ideally, can also stand the test of time. What might appear as a "simple" question to a poster is often far less …

From the product description page: Jenkins is an award-winning, cross-platform, continuous integration and continuous delivery application that increases your productivity. Use Jenkins to build an …

I have said it frequently enough when people ask about down votes: By philosophy and design votes are anonymous and neither voting up nor voting down requires any mandatory explanation. The tooltip …

No Voting already is the community moderation system in action! And down-votes are part of that as much as up votes; or would you also require up-votes getting reviewed? Unlike voting down on answer …

That question was closed two years ago with a then default close reason: "Questions must be relevant to professional system administration. Server Fault is dedicated to professional system and ne …

An announcement by itself that $random_crappy_piece_of_software proved to be even more crap than previously expected is not really a useful addition. Neither are announcements on SF that said piece of …

Quite a few topics overlap somewhat and are on topic and suitable for the audience found at either ServerFault and StackOverflow. You can always flag your own questions for migration to the another …

I think this blog post by Jeff Atwood explains the original SE philosophy regarding voting best: ... therefore, the only logical thing to do is to maximize the happiness and enjoyment of answerers. I …

To quote myself: There is a reason that for the past 20 years Simon Travaglia's long running BOFH series continues to have enormous appeal to system administrators. Many problems really require only …

Your question was most likely migrated because it was not on topic for ServerFault. Server Fault is for questions about managing information technology systems in a business environment and since Ap …