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Free LOPSA Memberships

I'd be up for it, if I make the grade.
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Did the free LOPSA memberships ever get sent out?

I'm not sure how to raise this, but I have still heard nothing from LOPSA, and by my calculation it's about a month since they had our details. I don't want to open a new question for this, unless th …
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Serverfault mods on a higher horse than stackoverflow (closing questions)

I'm probably one of the guilty parties here, as I had a lengthy exchange with MetaChrome in the comments of this question, before voting to close it. His/her question seemed to have a middle part (2) …
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Possible project/product spamming

User lzap has just posted a rash of answers, some to very old questions, all of which look very similar: From Automated VM's provisioning: If you don't mind use Puppet for configuration, then the …
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Should we punish and also close questions with blindingly obvious answers?

I see I'm one of the guilty parties. I suppose that puts on me some onus to explain. Take a look at this question, which is also a total newbie question, and attracting downvotes and close votes as …
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Are we becoming too judgmental about questions relating to "professionalism"?

There is some discussion about exactly what that comprises, but it seems to have strong elements of "I'm trying to do something that would be normal in a production setup" and "I have the necessary basic …
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you must have 50 reputation to comment?

It also seems to me that in the process of writing answers good enough to gain five upvotes, you learn enough about the site that your comments will be in keeping with the general site ethos (which I …
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Why do people think questions about cPanel/WHM is the same as questions about cPanel?

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 …
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What do I do with a question that has become irrelevant?

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 …
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What is the scope of what docker questions are on topic here?

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 …
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Questions that are flagged for issues relating to "Pricing"

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 …
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Question about "Amazon API gateway" put on hold at Server Fault

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 …
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Problems reviewing such wide ranging topics

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 …
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User seems to ask only homework questions. Is this a problem, or should I just ignore him?

User donok has been a member for two days and has asked three questions, each of which involves a chain of routers (which by his own admission is entirely virtualised), one of which has a simple error …
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Marking questions from new users as duplicate without enough knowledge

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 …
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