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Server Fault needs professional-quality questions, not just questions from professionals
I'll be the first to admit that I've stepped away from SF for a while. Those reasons are my own, and everyone should be able to step away when they want to.
That said, I've been looking at the site …
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Merge request: fedora tags
I think that having different tags for different OS version is a good thing. Each one has it's one quirks and bugs that may or may not have been fixed or changed between major releases. While the unde …
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Are country-specific questions too localized?
I believe Joel's answer to a meta.so post is the best answer for this. So I'm going to blatantly rip it off :)
"Too localized" should be used for very tiny geographic regions or vanishingly small …
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Per our FAQ: What exactly does "Information Technology Professionals" scope the site down to?
I think you are reading a little bit too much into the "Information Technology Professionals" part of the FAQ. In fact it is pretty well defined just below that paragraph:
If your question is about…
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Bad kerning in Firefox on ServerFault Blog
This is a problem with FF, using the suggested modifications would adversely effect every other browser.
We are looking at a complete redesign in the future for the blog though
4
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How snarky is too snarky?
That is essentially the same thing as LMGTFY, and adds nothing besides a link to google. Generally we prefer answers that answer the question, and if you are linking outside the site add some context. …
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Community Posts for Blog.SF?
I think that having a dedicated community blog is the right way to go. So ... basically Option 4, leave blog.sf about the site and how we do things "tell the story of our site" as Kyle puts it. Then, …
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Merging a closed question with an open question.....Some problems here
My apologies i misread one of the questions ... twice. They shouldn't have been merged.
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Who would you like to hear at our Scalability Conference?
From teh twitters:
Brian Aker
.... answer length fail
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[ios] matches Cisco's IOS and Apple's iOS
IMHO Apple iOS devices are OFF TOPIC and should be closed/migrated to the correct site. I can get on board with cisco-ios since that is more specific, and then alias ios->cisco-ios.
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Removing popular answer if potentially a duplicate
a) I was ignorant of the fact that egrep is just a symlink of 'grep -E' (hell, didn't even know egrep existed, tbh)
Well i'd say leave your answer ESPECIALLY since given 100 distro's grep -E is m …
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Why was my question regarding premium domains closed?
Lets take a look at the close reason for a second.
It's impossible to objectively answer this question; questions of this type are too open ended and usually lead to confrontation and argument.
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I would like the URLs to your blogs
http://blog.serverfault.com (of course :) )
and less frequently updated:
http://brokenhaze.com
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Can we have a place for "definitive" questions
Are you looking for something like: this: https://serverfault.com/tags/licensing/faq
you can get here for any of the tags on the site, but going to /tags/<tag>/faq or clicking the 'faq' tab when you …
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User seems to ask only homework questions. Is this a problem, or should I just ignore him?
Homework questions are only a bad thing when you ask us to do the entire assignment (Give me teh codez) for you. If these are homework questions he seems to be asking about specific issues he is havin …