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Is the serverfault community oriented by profession or knowledge areas?

In general, StackExchange isn't the right place for very broad "how do I set up (whatever system)?" questions. ServerFault has at least 2 - arguably 3 - close reasons for overly broad questions, so y …
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Question considered off-topic

This is a case where Stack Exchange's desire to be nicer leads to confusion. I forget the explanation of why it's nicer, but details of why a question was closed are hidden from anyone with less than …
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Do we need a separate site for "researchers"?

I looked through the list of questions and I don't think the support a specialized site for research computing. A lot of them are look to me like sysadmin questions that could be fine here: What ar …
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In what circumstances should VirtualBox questions be on topic?

It may be rarely used, but I use it, for an honest-to-goodness Enterprise Resource Planning system. OTOH, we're small and they were using VBox before I started (when they were even smaller), so it's …
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List Questions - What to do with new ones

It's funny that this came up today: all day I've been pondering how to ask a subjective question and worrying that it might be considered a list question. For this question, there are a couple thing …
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Is there an appropriate place for System Administration career oriented questions?

I'm referring to things ranging from physical inventory organizational schemes, documentation guidelines to questions dealing with some of interpersonal challenges of being "that guy (or girl) in t …
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