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need one now, the next one will be January 2014", we say "we don't need one now, so we won't have one now; but we'll have one later if it's needed, and either we'll have an election or we'll have this discussion …

subdomains seems to be a little-used and description-free tag for stuff which subdomain fits well (ie, DNS subdomain-related issues). I would propose merging subdomains into subdomain. Edit: OK, it …

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 …

Since this question's floated up to to the top of the front page, I'm going to give my contrarian answer, which is: obfuscate nearly no technical data in your question. Michael has a point inasmuch a …

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 …

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 …

Removing the requirement to be a professional means telling these users “your question isn’t appropriate as it stands, improve it by...” instead of telling them “you don’t belong here because y …

For my money, yes, it is; I've long felt it's shabby to both answer a bad question and vote for it to be closed. That said, if I feel sorry for the questioner, particularly if it's clear they're way …

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

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 …

I'd really, really like to know what times each moderator and candidate feels are their most SF-productive expressed in UTC. The reason for the question is that SF seems to have users - and consequen …

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 …

Interesting question. I was fairly heavily involved in your original question, both in answering it (to try to demonstrate that the entire question was founded on incorrect data) and I then voted to …

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 …

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) …