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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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TAG Merge : snapshot and snapshots

Done: Merged and created synonyms.
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Rename [route53] to [amazon-route53]

You're right. Since it's a vendor specific name the tag should have Amazon in its title – like all other Amazon tags. So I've renamed route53 to amazon-route53 and defined a synonym.
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Congrats to the newly-elected mods!

Congratulations and welcome! Also, thanks to all the other candidates who would have deserved it too!
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Vote-to-close vs. flagging

I think it depends on the age of a question. If you see a bad one which is old and you think Serverfault would definitely be a better place having that question closed, flag it. If we agree we, will h …
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The [cent] tag needs to go

My two cents: you're absolutely right! Done!
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What times do current moderators, and moderator candidates, generally feel are their most pr...

It depends on my work pensum and the level of concentration I need for my work, but usually I'm checking the site (at least hourly / every two hours) between 0700UTC - 1700UTC (core time) and be …
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Kill it with heavy crossbow: [humor]

First step: I've merged the humor tag into the fun tag (the latter tag prevailed and some of the questions had both tags.) Since some of the questions now only have the fun tag, we have to decide wha …
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It's Santa Time!

Ho ho ho! "This year nobody gets what they want."
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Inactive mods on SF - Or are they?

I will only speak for myself. I was a very (and by very I mean very very) active member of Serverfault before I became moderator. I literally answered hundreds of questions in the first months. At th …
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Paddington Bear Choppertar

I did't buy Chopper3's story ("five years ago, bla bla" ...). So I went to his company's car park and discovered this little secret: IT'S HIS REGULAR CAR!!! I took this picture (exhibit 'A'):
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Show questions (with answers) that a user has answered

You could try to run a query on the StackExchange Data Explorer: http://data.stackexchange.com/serverfault/query/new I'm not very familiar with the database scheme, but this could be a start: selec …
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Ampersand is mangled beyond recognition

I speak for myself, but I don't have a problem recognizing the &-character. MS Trebuchet is the only web-common font that uses an italic-style ampersand. It visually expresses the origin of the chara …
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How to flag users for mod attention (for editing vandals)

The edit sdfsfsdfsfsfsfsfsffsdfsfs df sf sf s f asf s fs df asf convinced me that these edits were pretty intentional. So, in this case the user will be suspended for at least one day. Also, he' …
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Moving questions

My fault. A Serverfault user flagged the question requesting to move it to the Security SE site. One part of my brain told me to leave the question here, another part kept whispering "Try that new mod …
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I hereby nominate dickchop as Answer of the Year

Imma let you finish, but dickchop had one of the best answers of all time.
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