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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 …
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How many moderators do we need?
There's some discussion with regard to the specific count for this election; maybe some more general discussion is needed on how many moderators are needed. … If it's arbitrary, shouldn't it come from a discussion with the existing moderators, or else a public discussion on meta? …
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What's off-topic; anything in a home setting, or anything that was designed for home use?
Along those lines, here's a discussion from the Mac Mini question:
It was migrated to superuser as that is a better fit. … But let's not generate endless discussion and disagreement on product X's appropriateness for the workplace. …
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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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Vote: What level of automatic code highlighting do we want?
Enable it extremely selectively on tags where the content of a code block has a high chance of actually being code.
For instance, enable these:
lang-sh - bash sh shell-scripting
lang-vb - vbscript
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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
Following up on the discussion here, I’d like to propose some changes to our help center guidelines to remove subjective language (particularly the “professional” part) and simplify things a bit, while … Edit based on chat discussion:
For replacing the "professional" close reason and covering a gap that we'd end up with after removing it:
"Questions must demonstrate reasonable information technology …
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Apache tags - a bit of a mess?
I don't think something like apache-httpd-2.0 etc. would be sane or reasonable, but we should probably have some discussion on how to handle these tags. …
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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 …
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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 …
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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' …