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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 …

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 …

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 …

[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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

(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 …

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 …