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Massive Spam Attacks since couple of days

You can get an overview of the current issues many SE moderators are having with the company by reading the recent posts here on meta.SF That will lead you, if you're interested, to many more posts o …
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18 votes
6 answers
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Can we just get rid of vgv8?

It's been clear for a while that he/she is posting solely for the purpose of trolling, so instead of just a suspension, why not delete the account altogether?
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18 votes
51 answers
937 views

Christmas Hats 2013 Edition!

It's December! For the past couple of years, many SF'ers have added Santa hats to their Gravatars For Christmas. Feel free to join in, here are the hats we've used in the past: or
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Why was my question closed on Server Fault?

I'm not sure about the others who voted to close, but for me it sounds like you're trying to get your iPhone to connect to your wireless router at home. As per the first section of the FAQ, ServerF …
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9 votes

Christmas Hats 2013 Edition!

8 votes

Is it possible to reverse an answer accept?

The official SO position is that accepting an answer (or not, or accepting then un-accepting...) is something only the question asker can do. Mods can't do it and developers won't do it. The idea …
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8 votes

Ephemeral close reason

If you type in a custom off-topic reason, that reason will be available for anyone else to use. I can't test it right now, but I'm pretty sure multiple custom reasons can be seen if different close-v …
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8 votes

Can we black hole the "errors" tag?

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7 votes
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Bounty removal request

I didn't know how to revoke a bounty before this, but now I do... I expect you and the other commentors to throw some close votes on it if you feel it deserves it.
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7 votes
1 answer
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What, in summary, are we supposed to do to clean up tags?

I know it's not a good question title... I'd like to have a question and short answer here on meta.SF that explains what - if anything - people can or should do to clean up tags. I've seen blog post …
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6 votes

Chat - a plea for moderation

I missed most of the chat fireworks today, and it's been super busy so I haven't gone through the transcript yet, but... I didn't see anything too terrible in there, although some might've been delet …
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6 votes

post put on hold, no feedback, edited it several times, made comments but no reply from mods...

Closing a question (same thing as putting it on hold) has nothing to do with being encouraging or not. It's a way to pause activity on a question while issues with it are being resolved. Your ques …
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6 votes

serverfault.daytorrents.com Phishing?

This short of thing should be reported to the company, there's an option in the Contact Us form specifically for reporting outside sites that are improperly using SE content. In this case, I've just …
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5 votes

Why was my edit rejected?

Iain was trying to be non-judgmental in his answer, so I won't be... The answer to the question you asked in the first comment is: no, edits that improve answers aren't necessarily rejected because t …
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4 votes
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How to write keys and key sequences?

I think he's asking about how to do keyboard formatting on SF, which can be done with the kbd tag. For example: <kbd>Ctrl</kbd>+<kbd>E</kbd> Should render as: Ctrl+E Well, I see it doesn't work h …
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