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Restrict some formatting options for posting answers

This kind of formatting is useful to denote sections and break up the wall-o-text effect in long answers. For example: How does IPv4 Subnetting Work? Redirect, Change URLs or Redirect HTTP to HTTPS …
Shane Madden's user avatar
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Need a tag for "ssrs-2012"

Created one and adding it to questions where it looks like it goes.
Shane Madden's user avatar
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Server Fault needs professional-quality questions, not just questions from professionals

In the nearly 4 years that I’ve participated on Server Fault, it’s been a community that I’ve been proud to be a part of, and I’ve been able to build my own skill set a lot and help people out at the …
Shane Madden's user avatar
5 votes

Voting statistics on serverfault

I don't think its use has had much of a negative impact on the amount of engagement or discussion taking place. …
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5 votes

Should we modify the FAQ to include policy subversion as explicitly Off Topic?

Policy "subversion", yeah. Policy "avoidance"? I can imagine some legitimate questions. "My firewall blocks all outbound HTTP requests due to a policy requirement; how do I get WSUS/package manager …
Shane Madden's user avatar
2 votes

Is there an 'upload a file' option?

Being the one who asked for the capture, I'll chime in.. All of the conversation of the NTLM auth process is in HTTP headers; the full packet capture is unnecessary (and probably exposes more data ab …
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8 votes

Topicality: What should be done with "hobbyist" firmware questions?

- MikeyB's answer actually has direct discussion of consumer routers. But that doesn't make any of your points any less valid. If it's home use or has a strong odor of home use, it's off-topic. …
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4 votes

Tools seems like a tag for tools. Thoughts?

Yes. Meta tags smell funny. What a bunch of tools.
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1 vote

What to do with the "Hidden features of ..." question collections?

The m.SO question posted by Mark is from July of last year; in October of last year, a number of SO's "hidden features" questions were closed and locked - and even as recently as a week ago, the one f …
Shane Madden's user avatar
10 votes

Is it time to kill problematic tags like cpanel, plesk, whm and webmin?

See also: Topicality: What should be done with “hobbyist” firmware questions? My opinion on this hasn't changed: the quality of the question is what matters, not the tools in use. If a question in t …
Shane Madden's user avatar
17 votes

Mod hammering - to do or not to do

Also a quote from the election page: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/05/a-theory-of-moderation/ The ideal moderator does as little as possible. But those little actions may be powerful and hi …
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1 vote

ServerFault - Direction and Future - Professional Questions

The kind of business question I see as on-topic has to do with making technology and business work together. Say, for instance, "How can I convince my management that our broken implementation of X n …
Shane Madden's user avatar
12 votes
4 answers
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Proposed change to Server Fault guidelines, round 2

(This is a new post of the current version of the draft here so we can get feedback for the current iteration that's been much improved due to the discussion there. … Those interested can see the full background discussion here.) …
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Proposed change to Server Fault guidelines, round 2

These changes have been implemented, but they're not set in stone by any means - if anyone has recommendations to improve, please speak up!
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10 votes
5 answers
473 views

What can we do to fix the "Reasonable management practices" close reason?

I don't like it! Let's make it better, because it's weak. What questions are being closed right now with it where it's not conveying what we want it to? Are they "you're on the wrong site", "you' …
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