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New users may not even know how to ask. By marking a unique question from a new user as duplicate, we are basically discouraging them from asking more questions (or to answer other questions). He …

Apparently, I have form for not asking all that many questions on SF. Re-reading that meta question, I was struck by sysadmin1138's observation that My 'virtual question' count is a lot higher t …

I only jump in since no-one else has included a subtlety I find important (if slightly orthogonal): how old is the post you're editing? For a case like this, where it's a day old, I thought the edit …

I know nothing about Windows, and won't use it (or any other proprietary software) for anything. I end up pressing skip about a third of the time, too. I don't think you should sweat it. You know w …

The existing answers are excellent, but I think we need to be honest with the poor OP about this. A long time ago, SF used to have an explicit mission statement that it was for and about professional …

After yet another question asking how to bring hostname-awareness for proxying purposes to a protocol that doesn't have any support for it, is it time for a canonical question on hostname-aware proxyi …

You say that the question you intended to ask was "How is it possible to set up a server that runs less than 24 hours a day?". It's not my job to speak for the community, but my gut feeling is that s …

Despite knowing squat about Windows, I have already this morning VTC'ed two questions as duplicates of Windows Active Directory naming best practices? Is it time to elevate that question to full cano …

My personal feeling is that docker is a fantastic development tool, but it has no place in production. We have a close reason that says Questions about development, testing and development tools …

Firstly, thank you for asking! It's nice when people care about not cluttering up the site. Secondly, as someone's already found it useful, I'd definitely leave the question undeleted. Your edit at …

Both the tag wiki excerpt and the full tag wiki warn you that cpanel questions are likely to fail to meet the standards required of a question here. This is not an arbitrary decision by a single mode …

No, I don't think this particular kind of retagging is a good thing.

Yes, I think this particular kind of retagging is a good thing.

There seems to be a rash of questions recently getting resurrected by the addition of either a vsftpd or a proftpd tag. Let me be clear: I don't refer to previously-untagged questions; those are bein …

For what it's worth, I'd already voted to close it as off-topic, and although two respected moderators have said otherwise, I secretly continue to think it's off-topic, pretty much for the reasons you …