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Question migration statistics and a plea
I railed against this soon after SuperUser started, so it's not a new issue, but it is definitely getting worse. I've even started seeing questions that are not only badly asked, but are (or seem to b …
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Where did all the admins on Server Fault go?
I agree that the questions about home servers and single XP machines are quite annoying, but I think the community is doing a good job of staying on top of these and getting them closed and move to su …
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How to get StackOverflow moderators to put hosting questions on Webmasters instead
I personally do not believe these belong on any SE site. They come under the bracket of "Subjective and Argumentative", as you are always going to elicit different responses from different people, and …
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Free LOPSA Memberships
I'm interested in this, would love to get a UK branch organised.
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Vote-to-close vs. flagging
As a mod, I try and let the community close questions where possible, particularly if they are border line, using the Mod Hammer is really something I want to reserve for questions that are blatantly …
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Did the free LOPSA memberships ever get sent out?
From my calculation I was one of the top 40 for the year that posted on the thread, but have heard nothing.
It's entirely possible that I calculated it wrong, but thought I'd check.
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Should personal computer-troubleshooting questions be asked on SF?
If there related to a multi pc environment - such as having a virus affect your whole network or setting up outlook for multiple pc's then that should be ok. 1 Pc with a virus or email error is not re …
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Giving Answers or Helping to Learn?
I answered this question on Serverfault earlier today, a user wanted to know how he could redirect from a subdomain to an application. I gave the user a number of options, one of which was URL Rewriti …
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Tag Formatting - Best Practices
This has already been brought up and been discussed extensively on Stack Overflow but we're
already starting to see an abundance of duplicate tags with different
formats - sql2005, sql-2005, etc. So …
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Do SEO, webmaster, etc. questions belong on Server Fault?
If your question is related to how your website interacts with the server, then yes - so web server configuration, mail servers, configuration settings for your site, even so far as problems accessing …
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Tag Formatting - Best Practices
Effective Tags - Bring more attention to your question
Pick tags that show higher counts in the look-ahead prompts, as they are more likely to make your question appear highlighted for a user on the …
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Expand migrate-options
Moderators are able to migrate a question to any site so if you need to migrate to a different site not list, flag it for moderator attention.
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Question closed because I am not an administrator on the server?
As you saw I closed the question. As others have mentioned, it was closed because you don't have the rights to go onto this server and fix the problem and you cannot go back and get any of the details …
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Bad rejection: Moderators should probably err on the side of inclusion, not on the side of r...
It was me who rejected this, and my reason for doing so were:
It adds no more to the answer, yes it is some nice detail on cygwin and SSH, but it doesn't add any more to the answer. At best it shoul …
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Please see this post on MSO that explains suggested edits in detail and should answer all your questions.
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