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Perception of purpose

On the one hand, I mostly agree with Warner and John that it would be better for SF to be questions from professionals about managing computers. On the other hand, apparently my instinct is to consid …
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6 votes

How to attract more professionals?

When it comes to "Reach(ing) the right kind of publications and bloggers," one thing that strikes me about the lists of interesting IT blogs is that there's a huge variety. Everyone seems to have the …
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25 votes
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Are RaspberryPi's ever on topic for ServerFault?

NO To expand: We're already leery of questions about home routers... they could conceivably be on-topic if it's a sysadmin trying to make remote access work, but few (if any) of the home router ques …
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2 votes

Where did all the admins on Server Fault go?

I think the knee-jerk reaction that "it's meta, it has to be on meta" and "this is a dup of Jeff's question about growing the SF community" are a problem. This isn't a dup of "how to grow" it's more …
0 votes

Is it appropriate to ask about choice of software on SF?

For email client questions, for me it would depend on whether it looks like a personal question ("what IMAP clients can I use w/ Gmail?") or a business network question ("for (obscure reason) we can't …
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How to attract more professionals?

Getting some MS MVPs on here would give a bigger pool of experts for the MS questions. I have the impression that there aren't a lot of MVPs, but the one time I tried to find out, the question was mo …
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2 votes
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Should we try to eliminate password reset questions?

I started to say, "I think that recent question you quoted is a legitimate one," but then I re-read it and now I'm not sure. On the one hand, the reference to going outside the domain sounds legit, …
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6 votes
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Server Fault Conference

ServerFault's ScaleDays (ScaleDay since it's only one day?) URL would be scaledays.serverfault.com I hope we can enter more than once, this is just off the top of my head.
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1 vote

Server Fault Conference

ServerFault's Scaling In Any Direction Conference ServerFault's Scaling In All Dimensions or, even shorter (better for the url) ServerFault's Scaling Directions scalingdirections.serverfault.com …
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Free LOPSA Memberships

I love the dialog box that pops up now: Did I read through the more than 30 answers this question already has? I sure did, and my answer is going to be the same as most of the others: I'd like a me …
3 votes

Why is there no Server Fault Twitter account?

Who needs twitter? All the cool sysadmins are constantly on SF and chat, hitting refresh endlessly, like a chipmunk on speed.
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0 votes

A small discrepency in the color tags at the bottom of the site

Somewhere on meta.SO, there's a question and answer about this (I thought it was a question I asked or commented on, but I can't find it). Basically, they started putting the little colour blocks on …
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1 vote

Downvoting really old questions?

It's fair, morally right, and acceptable. Depending on how you look at SF or any other SE site, you're quite likely to come across old questions (bumped by Community, listed as Related to a current q …
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2 votes

Is it reasonable/possible to further discourage down voting?

I think the change that made downvotes on Questions "free" happened before you signed up, so that's not it. (Before the change, it cost the downvoter a point of rep, now it doesn't.) Unfortunately, …
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3 votes

Company Name In Username

I upvoted a couple of of his answers w/out noticing the username, so I'd say it's ok. Looking at the account now, it seems overly self-promoting to include the company name, but I don't think it's an …
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