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PART 1 What is all the drama on meta.SE about?

If you follow meta.stackexchange (meta.SE), you'll have seen the huge number of posts about the new Code of Conduct (CoC), about Monica Cellio being removed as a moderator from multiple sites, about m …
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Are answers from a vendor allowed?

In this case: the answers are helpful the user is not trying to promote the company the user isn't trying to hide that they're connected to the company To me this adds up to a benefit to the sit …
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Rest in peace, Michael Hampton

Michael was someone I only knew online, here and through other sites. Among the group of very experienced and widely knowledgeable SysAdmins that he interacted with, he stood out as being pretty much …
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PART 2: How does the drama on meta.SE affect Server Fault?

As I said on one of my posts on meta.SE, there isn't really a community here: there's essentially no chatting and no discussion in comments, both of which take up a lot of moderator time on other sites … I think the issue that started all this - proper use of pronouns - is largely a non-issue on any SE site, and here again, the fact that there isn't much discussion on SF means it's even less of an issue …
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Abrupt change in moderation staff?

From the comments here and the answers and comments on Michael Hampton's post about Admin panel questions, it seems pretty clear to me that: we have broad agreement that those sorts of questions are …
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External site copying without attribution

@MichaelHampton's post was rendered obsolete today. The new method of reporting purloined content is: Send all reports of SCRAPERs to [email protected]. Please include: the URL of th …
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Can we do anything to change the dynamic of the site?

Dennis' question here, and tombull89's and Iain's comments here, but I think the discussion of this shouldn't be limited to "what do the the candidates think they would do to change/improve SF?" …
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I think we're overdoing "that's not professional" comments

[Most of this post blatantly ripped off from MDMarra's] https://serverfault.com/questions/590349/compiling-newer-version-of-apache-in-fedora-14 ... is the question that prompted my post, but this ha …
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Are we upvoting/downvoting questions for the right reasons?

Man, no wonder you guys don't vote enough, you're seriously overthinking things... vote up questions you think are good vote down questions you don't think are good The tooltips are just that: tip …
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Why SF is failing - the dismal future of ServerFault

I almost made this a TL;DR intro to my other answer, but I think this is a standalone way of looking at most of the "problems" with ServerFault that we've been discussing lately: Most* of the regula …
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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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2014 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire

Comments (I started this write-up before the election started thinking we'd just get the usual boring election questions, but then things got rancorous, so this is partly my take on the State of Serv …
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How to deal with bad questions? VOTE!

But Iain's comment the other day was dead on: what we need is more people who are active in voting ( all aspects thereof ) so that we can effectively police the quality issues we have (From the discussion
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BOFH Gravatar Week - Let's keep going!

This is your chance to show your true colours... Use the (semi-) official Bastard Operator From Hell Gravatar for a week or a while. I don't think there's any particular reason, it just seemed like …
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Is ServerFault doomed? Not if we all vote more!

Here's a simple way to use voting to clean up some crap: In the search box, enter: votes:0 answers:0 Click the "Newest" tab and scroll down until you're looking at questions that are at least a day …
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