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Meta-questions which relate to Server Fault being doomed.

9 votes
1 answer
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What's wrong with ServerFault? [closed]

Possible Duplicate: How do we grow the Server Fault and Super User communities? This discussion illustrated some of the issues. Here are my thoughts on SF's problems: There aren't enough e …
Ward - Trying Codidact's user avatar
6 votes

Sure, we like the IDEA of voting, but we are poor in our actions

It's strange: the other answers are written in English, and I'm a native English speaker, but I don't understand! what you're all saying about not voting on topics you don't understand. (Jump to the …
Ward - Trying Codidact's user avatar
7 votes

Are we professionals or...?

My actual question is: what can we do more about this kind of things in order to improve the quality of the website? It does not look like voting and trying to close questions is enough but rather …
Ward - Trying Codidact's user avatar
11 votes

Why SF is failing - the dismal future of ServerFault

I've always felt - from as far back as Usenet before the word spam was coined - that if you want to get something out of a community, you HAVE to participate in it. One one level, that's obvious hy …
Ward - Trying Codidact's user avatar
7 votes

On the paucity of voting

I know you're not talking about me, because even though I've been busy/distracted/absent much of the past two months, I'm still #1 for the year. There've been previous questions about this but not fo …
Ward - Trying Codidact's user avatar
27 votes
5 answers
635 views

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 …
Ward - Trying Codidact's user avatar
26 votes

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 …
Ward - Trying Codidact's user avatar
4 votes

Worse than usenet? Our image to prospective new users.

(Sorry, this is a rambling answer, there's a bunch I want to say but I can't take the time just now to edit it decently.) First off, "worse than Usenet" is either hyperbole or lack of familiarity wit …
Ward - Trying Codidact's user avatar
22 votes

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 …
Ward - Trying Codidact's user avatar
1 vote

Is ServerFault doomed? Not if we all vote more!

This is in response to some of the comments on the question... (And it's a second answer because it's got nothing to do with my other one.) To me, voting is easy, just follow the tool-tips you get w …
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7 votes

How to find and clean up bad questions

The fastest way to get rid of bad questions is to close them and make sure they have a downvote. Here are some ideas for searching for bad questions... #1 - Closed questions with no answers and no u …
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0 votes

How to find and clean up bad questions

Inspired by @Iain, I'm cutting back on close vote reviewing for a while to try to close some questions. Here are a couple ideas for searching specifically for stuff that deserves* closing: answer …
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14 votes
2 answers
545 views

How to find and clean up bad questions

We've got lots of existing meta posts about how many bad questions there are and how much of a problem they are (or aren't) - that's not what this question is about. I wanted to collect in one post s …
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