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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.

First of all: there is no requirement to associate your SE profile with your real life identity, it is a personal preference to do so or not. The reasons to do that are also personal and diverse. …

RMaaS (Reading Manuals as a Service) is part of our community services... Although I often comment with: Server Fault is a site for information technology professionals -- as such we have certai …

In essence we're strict on topicality rules because any Q&A platform with only questions and no answers, is useless. Unfortunately there are many more people asking questions, many new ones every da …

There is a lot of discussion about the quality of questions on SF; this is a topic that comes up regularly in meta. … Generally speaking discussion and critical thinking is a good thing. Some of those discussions do not warrant preserving for future readers after their conclusion though. Let's delete those. …

Good idea!

I think most of the regulars contributing on Meta can see the revision history of your question but for completeness sake the original question I cast the fifth and final close vote on: I own a do …

In general moderators are active community members and quite aware of what our community considers topical or not. In this case your question appears to be about circumventing monitoring software in …

What about development? That is currently excluded together with the home environment, but that exclusions is omitted in your draft. Setting up development environments is explicitly on-topic in Stack …

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 …

A simple yes or no question: Are questions about legacy products inherently off-topic? For instance we regularly get new questions about windows-server-2003 which ran out of extended support in …

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 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 …

My first association with a tag such as "self-hosting" is @HOME, DIY and an amateur approach, rather than managing information technology systems in a business environment which makes it off-topic fo …

An explanation is found in priviliges section of the manual: https://serverfault.com/help/privileges/access-review-queues in particular on First Post reviews: ... The First Posts queue contains the f …